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The movie Back in Black starring Christopher Walken recently celebrated its world premiere in September at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The movie stars Walken as Clyde Mortimer in what some reviews call a “dark comedy”. The premise, according to this article about the TIFF, is that Walken’s character “is the patriarch in…
I’ve had a lot of experience during my time as a Board member and Chairman of Senior Living companies extending “service lines” in order to build business. And, I think part of the future of Death Care will include present operating companies expanding “service lines” to become larger companies. In the Senior Living…
Acquisitions are big in Death Care. . . .and we are being told that with so many retiring funeral home owners. . . about to become bigger. If that is the case, we will have many people in our profession starting to ask the question, “How much is my funeral home worth”? I’ve…
Last week I wrote an article on how a changing consumer thought process, including the growth of Direct Cremation with No Services (DCNS), is affecting the business dynamics of traditional funeral homes. If you are one of the funeral homes being affected it is probably not a big consolation to you, but in…
It’s been over 20 years since the advent of Health Savings Accounts were swept into law during the George W. Bush administration. And, a bill (HR 2436) which moves them into the Death Care realm, which still sits in committee, was introduced into the U.S. Congress in 2025. That bill, introduced by Oklahoma Representative…
If you are a college football fan the argument over the last three years with the advent of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) money, the open Transfer Portal, and the expansion of the major conferences is whether the Big Ten Conference or the Southeastern Conference (SEC) is now the dominant conference in college…
My career in the Death Care business spans from 1980 when I attained my funeral director’s license until today where I keep my eye on what is happening in the business so that I can share with readers my opinions. However, I’ve been out of “active management” of a funeral home for over a…
I don’t think it will happen overnight, but if you operate a funeral home or if you are an employee of a funeral home I think the time to be watching for possible employee health care benefit changes is near. I got up on Sunday morning and looked over my daily inbox news…
According to this article from the Lansing (Illinois) Journal the Schroeder-Lauer Funeral Home of Lansing was purchased by Allen Memorial Partners LLC of Utah with the sale closing in June of this past summer. And, according to the article and other information I received the area in and around Lansing, Illinois, “was…
I work with a couple of financial advisors on my investments. I do a lot of research on my own and then visit with the advisor(s) when making changes to my portfolio. Doing that research led me to read this article from Seeking Alpha (which may have a paywall) where the author suggested…
