Afternoon Edition

Afternoon edition: Opportunities for professionals. . . and just news

By Funeral Director Daily / July 23, 2020 /

In today’s afternoon edition we have a little something for everybody.  We’ve got information on educational opportunities coming up for industry professionals dealing with everything from attracting consumers to your funeral home to insights on the financial markets, to podcasts on interesting topics from the National Funeral Directors Association. On the news front there are…

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Afternoon edition: Deep in the Heart of Texas

By Funeral Director Daily / July 21, 2020 /

We’ve got plenty of death care information from around the world for you today.  Two of our stories relate to current events in the United States and come to us from the state of Texas.  We’ve also got some death care information from Italy and Iraq as well as a 100th year of business celebration…

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Afternoon Edition: crematory fire rapid response cited

By Funeral Director Daily / July 20, 2020 /

In today’s edition of Funeral Director Daily’s Afternoon Edition, among other stories,  we bring you the story of a Washington state funeral home that had its 20-year old crematory catch on fire on Friday.  According to news reports swift action by staff and the local fire department made for minimal damage at Moles Farewell Tributes…

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Afternoon round-up

By Funeral Director Daily / July 14, 2020 /

Our feature today in our afternoon edition comes to us from the SentinelSource.com.  That is the online edition of the Keene (NH) Sentinel and today’s article features Keene Funeral Director Susan Simonds. Ms. Simonds is the operating manager of two funeral homes in Keene, both of which happen to be affiliated with the Dignity Memorial…

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Afternoon edition: Minnesota funeral home to build new facility

By Funeral Director Daily / July 13, 2020 /

This article from the Albert Lea Tribune tells us that Wells, Minnesota, funeral director Susan Nasinec and her husband Nathan, are moving forward with plans to construct a new funeral home in Wells. Nasinec told the newspaper that the couple wants to serve the community the best they can and a new building would be…

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Afternoon edition. . .heavy on cemetery news

By Funeral Director Daily / July 7, 2020 /

The afternoon edition of Funeral Director Daily weighs heavily with cemetery related news.  Let’s see. . . .we’ve got a name change, a cemetery hoping to receive historical certification, and a cemetery where Action News Troubleshooters tells of a cemetery where it took some time, but eventually, the consumer was taken care of.  Medway Cemetery…

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Afternoon edition: News from the world of Death Care

By Funeral Director Daily / June 22, 2020 /

Today we bring you an interesting article from a woman who talks about being in “Death Tech”.  The article entitled “Confronting Life and Death in the Digital Age” deals with idea that “connection” is important.  However, the article opines that “connection” from technology can be excellent for social support. . . but just because “it…

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Afternoon News: Part 3 of CNET’s Future of Funeral Series and more

By Funeral Director Daily / June 2, 2020 /

Today we bring you a couple of articles that we came across this morning that may be of interest to you.  The first is the third installment of CNET’s  (CBS Interactive) continuing series entitled “The Future of Funerals”.  Today’s episode deals with alkaline hydrolysis and CNET titles the article “The misunderstood funeral tech that is…

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