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If you follow the trends in death care you will notice that not only increased cremation continues to happen, but so does interest in alkaline hydrolysis, recomposition, and other “green burial” practices. According to this article, in New Hampshire 18-year old Anya Nicoll and state legislator Jerry Knirk are working towards changing a 1971 state…
I’ve been out of active funeral directing for the past eight years. And, I won’t apologize for it, but I’m a traditionalist when it comes to funeral service. That means I still believe in the value of the public acknowledgement of death, the tradition of a service or celebration of life, and the idea of…
I recently finished Bill O’Reilly’s book “Killing the Mob”. It is one of about a dozen books in a series by O’Reilly all with the “Killing” titles. I’ve learned that “Killing” is just the title series and the books are really about the history of people, movements, and time periods. Of the books I’ve read…
It’s been called a “hipster” funeral home. That’s at least what one person labeled Brooklyn, New York’s new contemporary funeral home, Sparrow. Erica Hill, a co-owner of Sparrow says this of comments like that, “Yes, we look different than what you expect a funeral home to be, but that’s okay.” According to this article in…
Americans have been influenced by the Brits for centuries. In the pre-Revolutionary day the colonists enjoyed the tea imported from the East India Tea Company of England until John Hancock’s merchant shop found a way to circumvent the tax on such by buying tea from a Dutch company. Those purchases led to the Boston Tea…
I came across this article entitled “Lending USA introduces FastScreen, a New Tool for Pre-Loan Qualification for Funeral Home Merchants” and it reminded me of the struggles I had over the years about implementation of tougher credit policies on client families. The age old “push-pull” credit decision is that you don’t want to make it…
At Funeral Director Daily we cover a lot of topics. Many, or even most of our articles, deal with the financial operation of a business to help those in the business of death care make the choices they need to make as they move forward. We also publish articles about the preneed industry and articles…
I enjoy learning. I know that there is an awful lot left to learn by me in my lifetime. And, it goes without saying that I love to learn more and more about the funeral profession because it was the profession that I earned my living in. I’ve also found out that sometimes I learn…
This article and video news story from CTV Canada explains that because of a chronic shortage of death care workers coupled with an increased number of deaths due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Bereavement Authority of Ontario (BAO) “is calling retirees into service to fill out vacancies and for the first time, it’s allowing college…
