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CANA, NFDA offer valuable insights with conventions, programming

By Funeral Director Daily / July 18, 2022 /

The Cremation Association of North America (CANA) is getting ready to host its 104th Annual Cremation Innovation Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, from August 17-19.  The event will have some of the most powerful speakers in the death care industry involved and on hand for operators to learn from. Brian Waters, funeral director, embalmer and host…

CANA to present Pet Care diversification at annual convention

By Funeral Director Daily / July 12, 2022 /

Some funeral homes including Australia’s largest provider of death care services InvoCare, have embraced the idea of Pet Death Care as part of their service options.  The Cremation Association of North America (CANA) will be holding their annual Cremation Innovation Convention next month in Atlanta, Georgia, and pet services will be an item for discussion.…

NFDA puts blitz on Baltimore

By Funeral Director Daily / July 5, 2022 /

I recently received an e-mail from the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) informing me of the NFDA International Convention and Expo that will be taking place in Baltimore, Maryland, from October 9-12, 2022.  After two years of having to worry about Covid, I figured it is time to get it on my calendar and be…

CANA offers timely webinar on the DIY funeral

By Funeral Director Daily / June 28, 2022 /

The Cremation Association of North America and Funeral Home Gifts brings you this timely webinar with potential CEU credits for you tomorrow, June 29, 2022.  Here’s what CANA had to say about the webinar in a recent press release: The do-it-yourself community has flourished in the years since the US economic crisis of 2008. DIY…

Legacy.com exceeding growth expectations

By Funeral Director Daily / June 27, 2022 /

According to SimilarWeb, Legacy.com had its website visited over 49 million times in April 2022 and ranked as the #1 website in its category of interest, Community and Society, in the United States.  Again, according to SimilarWeb, the company increased its reach by 4.77% over the month of March 2022. With those kind of numbers…

What everybody has been reading on Funeral Director Daily

By Funeral Director Daily / June 21, 2022 /

We’ve burned through another month of feature stories at Funeral Director Daily.  If you have missed some of our feature stories, here are the stories that are readers viewed most often from May 16 through June 15. StoneMor agrees to Axar Capital Management buyout. Recognizing the “Cusp of Change” Security National’s 1st Quarter —  Memorial…

CANA marks First Year of Peer Support. . . Meeting Tuesday night

By Funeral Director Daily / June 20, 2022 /

The Cremation Association of North America (CANA), in conjunction with Funeral Professionals Peer Support, celebrates its First Year of peer support meetings tomorrow night, Tuesday, June 21. In honor of the one-year anniversary of these meetings, Michael Dixon will open the meeting by sharing his personal journey that led him to founding Funeral Professionals Peer…

Do funeral rituals signal a cultural shift or will our culture change our rituals?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 15, 2022 /

“Humans are into rituals. Birth rituals, marriage rituals, naming rituals—each of these and more are integral to the lives of most people. One type of ritual, perhaps, is most common of all: death rituals.” That’s the first “tease” line for a very interesting podcast I listened to earlier this week.  Here’s the next line, “On…

News you can use

By Funeral Director Daily / June 6, 2022 /

Once again the information has piled up on my desk and I thought this would be a good time to get it out to our readers.  We have information about “Goals oriented succession planning”, inflation issues, a death care company starting a “Corporate Cultural Department” and installing a Chief Cultural Officer and more. . .…

Drone funeral footage idea, “You’ll Never Walk Alone” tops funeral music chart, Weddings and Deaths

By Funeral Director Daily / May 26, 2022 /

A.W. Lymn Funeral Directors of Great Britain is taping funerals from above using drones.  They then put it to music and incorporate the product into a disc or upload to You Tube to create a lasting memory for the family. Access is then given to those who attended so they can re-watch in their own…