Afternoon Edition
The Cremation Association of North America (CANA) has announced that the final cohort of the 2023 class for their Certified Cremation Specialist training may begin filing applications on June 1. The program is an online program that spans 17 weeks and comprises eight courses. According to the registration form that you can see…
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We’ve just passed the 15th day of the month and that brings us to publishing a reprise of the top read stories of the past 30 days on Funeral Director Daily. This month we have stories on several aspects of death care including caskets, the potential dwindling number of funeral homes, selling…
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I often tell people in funeral service that with Funeral Director Daily “I don’t break the news, I just tell those in the profession what I’ve heard, what I’m seeing, and what my opinion on the subject is.” I’ve secured a pretty good following by doing that and giving busy death care professionals…
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When I mention wardrobes, movies, Shark Tank, and more it doesn’t even sound like a death care publication. Except those subjects and the more common subjects of acquisitions and business predictions lead our Top 5 stories read for the past 30 days on Funeral Director Daily. In the time period from March…
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It’s been a couple of weeks since the largest death care and pet death care concern in Australia, InvoCare, rejected an unsolicted offer from the United States giant private equity firm TPG Global Capital to acquire its business. However, not all has been silent. . . . In this post we include…
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Mental health, physical health, and business health are all important aspects of how we perform. This week you can learn about all of those subjects and how to stay in peak performance throught webinars and support meetings put on by your colleagues in the greater death care network. Here’s what’s up this…
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If you ever met funeral director Danny Jefferson then it’s pretty simple knowledge that you have one more friend. Danny Jefferson, who contributes to these pages every so often with his “Two Guys and a Question” podcast with partner Alan Creedy, is the consummate Southern gentleman and consummate funeral director. Danny probably…
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Empathy is a great skill as you go forward in life. It’s one of the characteristics of highly emotionally intelligent people according to this article. One of the things that made me an effective funeral director, at least in my opinion, was the empathy I was able to relate as…
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It seems amazing to me how fast 30 days seems to go. Once again we offer up our Top Read stories from Funeral Director Daily over the past 30 days. . . Here they are. . . Enjoy the weekend. . . In Memoriam: Robert Waltrip, SCI Founder. InvoCare receives over US…
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We thought we would use an Afternoon Edition of Funeral Director Daily to pass on some upcoming webinars and podcasts that deal with recent happenings. . . . Customer experience is what it is about now in retaining client families, more and more women are entering the Death Care workforce, our friends at…
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