Business
That headline, “Is time up for the Undertaker”, is the headline from this press release issued earlier in May on behalf of Great Britain’s direct cremation provider Pure Cremation. Pure Cremation recently conducted what they call “The Big Future of Funerals Survey” and, according to their conclusions, it points to the fact…
Read MoreHas the death care community ever studied if, when faced with economic difficulties, the purchase of death care such as funerals, caskets, cremations, and other services reflect those economic times or do the vast majority of death care consumers select the disposition option, such as burial and cremation, that is most meaningful…
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All three major indexes of the U.S. stock market, the Nasdaq Composite, the S&P 500, and the Dow Jones Industrials grew by 1% or more on Friday. That convinced me that, over the long weekend I should take a look at how the public companies that deal with Death Care have fared for…
Read MorePresident Donald Trump declared a nationwide pandemic public health emergency on January 31, 2020. That public health emergency has now expired as of midnight on May 11, 2023. . . . a period of over three years in length. I certainly don’t have to remind anyone who lived through it of the…
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I served as a “front line” funeral director for over 33 years. I did my share of night calls, prep room work, arrangements, and funeral duty. One thing that I take from that experience is that “I always felt, by the way I worked with a client family, like I could make a…
Read MoreI recently read an article in the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) Memorial Business Journal about what employers need to know about the increasing legalization of marijuana and how it will possibly affect employer/employee relations. Back in 1990 the American’s with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed and put into effect…
Read MoreDepending on who you listen to you will get some opinions that over the next decade more than 50% of today’s family-owned funeral establishments will change hands. Now, I don’t know if that is true, but there is a shifting demographic, not only in age, but in preferred geographic living locations, that…
Read MoreI find it very interesting in that once I pick out an article for the day that other resources about the subject just seem to pop out to me and make me notice them when I have not noticed them in the past. I don’t know why it happens, but it does seem…
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