Afternoon Edition

“The Mortician” becomes HBO’s “most-watched” documentary in over 5 years

By Funeral Director Daily / June 24, 2025 /

    Here’s what this article in Deadline says of the recent HBO series “The Mortician”:  “The three-part documentary series, which chronicles the inhumane practices at a funeral home in Southern California, debuted on June 1. Since then, the show has tallied more than 2.6M cross-platform viewers in the U.S., per the network.  It’s now…

Read More

Sunset regulations, Hollywood, Guest writers, and Out-of-the-Box thinking dominate “Most Read” articles of the past 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / June 17, 2025 /

  Once again it is time for Funeral Director Daily to give our readers a 2nd chance to read articles that they may have missed in the past 30 days.  We’ve highlighted the Top 5 most read from May 15 to June 15 below.   The articles again show the variety of topics that Funeral…

Read More

Join CANA for Peer Support online tomorrow night

By Funeral Director Daily / June 16, 2025 /

    Tomorrow night is June 17th and it is the 3rd Tuesday of the month so that brings us the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) sponsored online Peer Support meeting.   The monthly Peer Support meetings are for all funeral home, cemetery, crematory, and other Death Care workers.   According to information from…

Read More

It’s “What you Know”

By Funeral Director Daily / June 9, 2025 /

There’s always been an argument about successful businesses. . . Did they get to be successful because of “Who they know” or “What they know”?  I’m guessing that both circumstances will help, but in today’s world there is no doubt that you need the “What you know” side of the equation to make intelligent and…

Read More

It’s nice to receive a little recognition

By Funeral Director Daily / June 2, 2025 /

  Funeral Director Daily has been a labor of love for me since the inception.  And, I’m especially grateful for those sponsors who are willing to step up and provide the funding for some of the costs it takes to keep a website blog on the web and disseminated five days per week to interested…

Read More

Trends, transformations, private equity, and consumer choices — We’ve had it all in the past 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / May 19, 2025 /

  The middle of the month has crept up on us again. . . and in Minnesota we are finally getting around to golf season.  On about the 15th of each month Funeral Director Daily highlights our top read articles of the past thirty days and we have some great ones for you. . ..…

Read More

A Death Care perspective universal to three continents

By Funeral Director Daily / May 15, 2025 /

    John Adams, currently a past-President of Great Britain’s National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD), is a change agent in the Death Care space.  His advocacy for an elementary school curriculum that includes a course on “Bereavement” in Great Britain got him time to present the idea in Parliament and impress the members of…

Read More

Matthews acquires Dodge Company

By Funeral Director Daily / May 13, 2025 /

  On May 1 of this year Matthews International announced the closing of the sale of their SGK Brand Solutions Segment in this press release.   According to this press release that was posted yesterday from Matthews International it didn’t take long to put some of those proceeds to work as they announced the acquisition…

Read More

Legal Issues, Buying/Selling, Consumer Attitudes, and Preneed: Great webinars lined up for May

By Funeral Director Daily / May 6, 2025 /

    I was always told that you have to “Learn before you Earn” and now I’m told, and I believe, that “Learning is a lifetime endeavor” —  meaning that you never stop learning.   So, if you believe like me, you can take a look at the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) and WilbertEDU…

Read More

Top Stories: Revenue growth, tariffs, acquistions, perceptions, ransoms — there’s an article for every interest in our “Best Read”

By Funeral Director Daily / April 17, 2025 /

  Wow!!  The middle of the month seems to have got here fast and with it comes our list of “Top Read” Funeral Director Daily articles over the past 30 days.   This month it looks like there is something for everybody’s interest.  Our top-rated articles cover subjects like revenue growth, potential casket tariffs, consumer…

Read More