Business
There is no doubt that COVID-19 and the rules around social distancing are causing funeral homes and cemeteries to do the tasks required of them differently. Today we share some of those subtleties and not so subtle aspects from Australia and America’s west coast funeral homes. We also have a story on how the disease…
As a youngster I had it drilled into me that you don’t buy things you cannot afford. . . . .but “affordability” also included the ability to buy things that you didn’t have the money for but you had a solid plan for repayment. That thought process is known as using and building credit history.…
I’m writing this on Monday morning even though you are receiving it as the Wednesday edition of Funeral Director Daily. The freedom to do that (write in advance) once in a while is what makes writing a daily article palatable. I didn’t do a whole lot over the weekend although I did come across this…
On Sunday morning my wife, Angie, and I were talking over the ramifications of what Congress may do in its balancing act to keep the economic security of the United States in tact as the pandemic rages on. We were discussing the additional $600 weekly unemployment payment per furloughed or unemployed worker and the long…
As I search for articles that might be of interest to readers of Funeral Director Daily I see lots of headlines. Headlines are the first indicator of what draws me into an article that might be of interest and then, if that has piqued my interest, I will get into the meat of the article…
The Anderson Funeral Home of which I was a 4th generation owner/operator has been in our community since 1872. Dates sometimes go over our heads, but I used to like to remind people that we were in our 5th year of business when the historic “Battle of Little Big Horn” was fought and Gen. George…
Columnist Lee Schafer had a business column in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Sunday that you can read here. The basic tenet of the article was on decision making and the decisions we are making when it comes to the mask/no mask decision by Americans. Eventually, the article gets into the thought process, that as…
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” That is the motto or creed of the United States Postal Service that serves every address in the United States. The department has came under fire lately for the costs it accrues in keeping…
According to this article from Medical Express, Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solbert announced, on March 12, the strongest and most intrusive measures the county had seen in peacetime. Those included the closure of schools, bars, and many public spaces, a ban on sports and cultural events and a curb on foreign travel. The country now…
Earlier this week I came across a couple of articles that tell the toll of funeral directors and funeral home operators who have operated in the COVID-19 environment. After reading them I think it is very difficult for those of us, who have not been on the front lines of arrangements or financial management of…
