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On Sunday I heard of a potential hostage situation at a funeral home in Las Vegas. According to the Las Vegas Review it was not a hostage situation but a situation of a man threatening to shoot himself inside the Davis Funeral Home in Las Vegas. Authorities were called to the funeral home, roads —…
Read MoreEvery year the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) publishes their Cremation and Burial Report. This year’s much anticipated copy was released on July 6, 2017. It is an interesting document filled with statistics, research, and dialogue that should be a must read for every person in the Death Care industry. You can read it here.…
Read MoreAn article I read in SouthernMinn.com piqued my interest about the potential for public relations. The article featured the small community of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, and some of the events that were going on there in conjunction with the community’s 150th anniversary celebration. One of the events that caught my eye was that of a…
Read MoreOver the last couple of days I have seen various media reports about the 11 year old in Illinois who has been given a short time to live following the unsuccessful treatment of an aggressive brain tumor. The reports also go on to tell of the young lady’s sister, who is 15 years old, organizing…
Read MoreOn June 22 the National Funeral Director’s Association released the findings of their Annual Consumer Awareness and Preferences Study. Headlines of the Press Release from that day indicate that about 2/3 of American consumers feel it is very important to communicate the plans for their own funeral services, but only about one in five people…
Read MoreI graduated from mortuary school in 1980 and in June of that year entered the funeral profession. Life was pretty simple, families were of the nuclear type, services only differed dependent on what religion the deceased belonged to, and there was no cremation in my little area of Minnesota. I tell this story often —…
Read MoreRecently as I peruse articles about the death care business I’ve been surprised by the number of articles that deal with some type of government funded “cut” coming to funeral service. Just a week after posting about the Province of New Brunswick (Canada) reducing government support for indigent funeral and cremation services, I have discovered…
Read MoreThe province of New Brunswick in Canada has just approved a new three-year contract with the 64 funeral homes and 500 funeral directors in the province for payment of those people who cannot afford to pay for their own funerals. According to the recent release from cbc.ca most funeral practitioners are not happy. When asked…
Read MoreWe have not been listening if we don’t understand how important a branding image is to businesses as they continue to move forward and grow. Your mind will see an image and immediately conjure up some type of feeling toward that image. American companies learned long ago that bringing a positive image up in your…
Read MoreOur youngest son graduated from high school yesterday and today my wife and I booked a short trip to Rhode Island to take in the longest continuous running July 4th Parade in the country in Bristol, Rhode Island. Literature says that the parade has been continuously operated since 1787. We are hoping for a little…
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