Business

The Experiential Tribute

By Funeral Director Daily / January 15, 2025 /

  As I’ve been formulating this article in my mind before putting the thoughts on the computer screen and into print two words come to my mind — “Experiences” and “Vision”.  I think of “Experiences” in the realm of what do our client families expect for the “experience” of their funerals and or tributes?  …

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L.A. fires. . . a good time to check your insurance

By Funeral Director Daily / January 13, 2025 /

    It was less than two years ago in August 2023 when I heard the news about the fire that ravaged Lahaina and some other areas of Maui.  Turning on the news the scene looked like something I’d never seen in my lifetime and almost apocalyptic.  The Maui fire of 2023 destroyed approximately 6,271…

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Where are we at with Funeral Director employment. . and what might it mean?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 10, 2025 /

  I’ve now moved the Funeral Director Daily home office to our winter rental in Southwest Florida for the next 90 days.  With that comes a few rounds of golf per week and the chance to meet and visit with new people whom I meet on the golf course.   It didn’t take me long…

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Have we seen the last of inflation? Don’t count on it

By Funeral Director Daily / January 3, 2025 /

  It doesn’t matter what type of Death Care business your are in. . . funeral home, crematory, casket supplier, vault company, chemical company. . . . the odds are that you have seen your costs of business go up in the past four years — since inflation started creeping up sometime in 2021.  …

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My Opinion: Federal Trade Commission should suspend potential “Funeral Rule” changes

By Funeral Director Daily / January 2, 2025 /

    As my first post of the New Year I find it imperative that I look into the world of Death Care, Funeral, and Cremation business with a perspective of change that is happening all around us.  And, when I look at that change, I think in our Death Care world, as well as…

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2024 Death Care “Trend of the Year”: The continuing growth of human disposition options

By Funeral Director Daily / December 31, 2024 /

  It hit me the other day while I was in the process of reading a new book, “Meeting the Moment”.  It’s a story of how six United States Presidents “met the moment” and “Inspired Presidential Leadership that transformed America”.     It’s also probably an odd place to get insight and inspiration for putting down…

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2024 Business Story of the Year: Veridian Holdings takes Park Lawn Corporation private

By Funeral Director Daily / December 30, 2024 /

  Back in early June of this year (2024) many of us were surprised by this announcement that public funeral home and cemetery operator Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) had agreed to be acquired and taken private by a group known as Veridian Holdings.  Probably most consequential in that announcement was that one of the partners…

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An Online Cremation “Ad-vertorial”

By Funeral Director Daily / December 26, 2024 /

  For the past 20 years or so since the advent of online news by the legacy television news broadcasters there has been a “blurring of the lines” between news and advertising.  I happened to run across this apparent “ad-vertorial” for national online direct cremation company Tulip Cremation the other day and just wanted to…

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Next week is Christmas. . . Here’s some traditions that funeral homes follow in their communities

By Funeral Director Daily / December 20, 2024 /

    Next week is Chrsitmas. . . . . And, almost everybody has their own traditions on how they spend time with their family or their community.   But what about your funeral home?  What are the traditions that they follow?  Having looked-forward to annual traditions is not only a way to celebrate with…

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Floridian named “Funeral Director of the Year”

By Funeral Director Daily / December 19, 2024 /

    We learned last week that a Auburndale, Florida, resident and funeral director had been honored as American Funeral Director’s “Funeral Director of the Year”.   In a press release from her employers at Foundation Partners Group it was explained that Jennifer Lindell-Roys, a funeral director at the Kersey Funeral Home had been so honored.…

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