Afternoon Edition
It’s a brand new year, but before you know it you will be looking to fill some Continuing Education credits for next year. As we go into the weekend here is a couple of opportunities that we found that not only give you eight CE credits but give you the opportunity to advance…
It seems like we just got through that busy holiday season, but it also seems like the world picks back up and we better get back on the ride so that we don’t get left behind. I’ve just happened to notice a lot going on in the Death Care world and a lot…
Our friends at Funeral Professionals Peer Support and the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) have another timely peer support connection coming our way next Tuesday. Christina Walton will be the facilitator. Ms. Walton is a registered therapist specializing in bereavement and loss and she has been a licensed funeral director for 33…
Slightly over two years ago Funeral Director Daily reported that it had read in Bloomberg Law that a lawsuit had been filed by plaintiff Park Lawn Corporation against the defendant PlotBox. The wheels of justice seem to grind slowly and we had not even thought about that case until earlier this week when we received…
You have all heard it said many times, especially because we are in the funeral business, “You can’t take it with you“. That refers to taking your bank accounts to the great beyond and spending money there. But, according to an article in Forbes Magazine, you can earn a lot of money posthumously. As a…
In a press release made public on the heels of the company’s 3rd Quarter report, Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), with headquarters in Houston, Texas, and Toronto, Ontario, announced that they had acquired the Schrader, Aragon & Jacoby Funeral Home, Mountain View Memorial Park, and Bustard & Jacoby Funerals, Cremation, Monuments and Receptions of Cheyenne and…
The streets of Death Care and the avenues of Entertainment don’t seem to collide too often at an intersection. But every once in a while they do and when they do it generally leads to some publicity. According to this article from Bloomberg that intersection just happened with a highly performing music video by artist…
It was in June 1980 when I was a rookie funeral director that a gentleman stepped into our funeral home and we were introduced for the first time. The gentleman was another young funeral director who had left the world of funeral directing to become a representative of one of the major casket companies. That…
