Business
The United States Department of Labor published rates on the rising cost of death as their October 31 piece in the Economics Daily platform. From here you can see the full article with a graph which indicates some of the following: From December 1986 to September 2017 funeral expenses rose 227.1% In that same time…
Read MoreFor the last century most funeral homes have tried to be all things to all people. Full service funeral homes have offered funeral services, embalming, cremation, and any other type of service that a client family asked for and usually were able to serve that family through their traditional funeral home building. Originally there were…
Read MoreProbably over 20 years ago I read the book, Swim with the Sharks, by Harvey Mackay. I thought it was a great read with a lot of common sense that I have used over the last 20 years in my business career. It was also interesting to me because Mackay was a local guy who…
Read MoreThe New York Times, for all the flack it gets for its political stances, is still a newspaper that reports on what is happening in America. When trends are mentioned in the New York Times, they tend to not stay trends much longer – and in many instances morph into the fabric of what is…
Read MoreYesterday I was active in our Minnesota Funeral Director’s Association (MFDA) Fall Continuing Education meetings. The MFDA puts these on over about 10 days in the fall in different locations in an effort to tell all death care professionals what is going on in the industry. It is always a great source to go to,…
Read MoreI recently came across an article from TV 6 in Richmond, Virginia, about funeral crowdfunding being set up for a relative through GoFundMe when the family noticed that another account for the deceased had already been set up. The family became uneasy about it and asked TV 6 to investigate. Turns out that the first…
Read MoreI enjoy watching the CBS program “60 Minutes” and did so again last Sunday. One of the featured stories was on New York restauranter Danny Meyer. Meyer started with one restaurant concept as an owner/operator in the 1990s and now has 16 restaurants of different styles in New York City. He is also the inspiration…
Read MoreThis past weekend an open house was held to celebrate the opening of America’s newest funeral facility — the Heafey Hoffmann Dworak & Cutler Mortuary on West Center Road in Omaha, Nebraska. The 26,000 square foot structure is built on the same spot where fire destroyed the firm’s 1980 building in January 2016. According to…
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