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Last week we brought you an initial report on Service Corporation International’s report of their 1st Quarter 2020 results. We also promised that we would go “inside the numbers” to see what other financial information we could find that may be of benefit to all of you who own or manage funeral homes. Today, we…
As you know if you have been reading Funeral Director Daily in the last month, it appears that the “no large gatherings” rules that are in effect in many states across America have had a negative effect on all things death care. Funeral homes have talked about revenue declines in many of their service categories…
To roll into the weekend we thought we would give you some food for thought in the funeral industry from almost 10,000 miles apart. Our articles today come from the investment community in both the United States and Australia. Both are good, well thought out articles that deal with the world of death care in…
We were informed in this public relations article from Agility PR Solutions that the United Kingdom’s leading dedicated provider of direct cremations, Pure Cremation, has donated paid-up television air time to the Marie Curie’s organization. One of Marie Curie’s non-profit endeavors is to provide end of life care. According to the release, “The end of…
Over the years I’ve often thought that the business of funeral and cremation care as a business is overlooked by those that teach or write of things happening in the business world. It is not everyday that Forbes magazine does an in-depth article on our profession. Last week, Forbes featured an article that you can…
On Wednesday I had the opportunity to be part of a live educational Zoom meeting that was part of the University of Minnesota Department of Mortuary Science distance learning. Geared for students, this presentation was aimed at letting those in the funeral profession describe to students what conditions they, as funeral directors, were working under…
This Funeral Director Daily article will not do enough justice to the funeral director/mortician profession but it is an attempt to show how those in our profession are going well out of their way to help other funeral directors in need and to help humanity as a whole. In New York City there are only…
On Monday at about the time that the stock market was closing for the day I happened to tune in to CNBC to see what had happened during the day in those markets. All the talk was about oil prices as the talking heads were busy informing the world, that at this point in human…
When I was just getting going on writing an occasional blog article back in May 2017 – about three years to the day from today – I was fascinated with a young man from County Cork Ireland who grew up wanting to be a funeral director. As it turned out, circumstances worked out so that…
