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Last week we wrote an article that you can read here that highlighted the record number of students currenty enrolled in mortuary schools across the country. That article certainly makes it look like we will have a number of graduates to replace those retiring funeral directors as the years go by. However,…
If you are in business, or want to be, you need to know more than the basics of finance. There are all kinds of ways to raise money which includes bank loans. Today our friends from Live Oak Bank take over the editorial duties at Funeral Director Daily and tell us the difference…
Earlier in May, the largest death care provider in North America, Service Corporation International, added what they call “human composting” services to their list of services provided by five funeral homes in the Seattle, Washington, area. This press release mentions that the process is also known as “natural organic reduction” and…
I worked my time for over 30 years as a funeral director in a community located along the interstate highway system. That vast amount of traffic passing by us unfortunately led to a few incidents of multiple fatalities that were directed to our funeral home for help in removal and trade services.…
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…
Has 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…
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…
President 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…
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…
I 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…
