Business
In recent months at Funeral Director Daily we have kept up with what we think are some of the newer ways to memorialize that consumers are thinking about such as alkaline hydrolysis, recombination (human composting), potential outdoor cremation and the like. Until we saw this article we had forgot all about Celestis Memorial Spaceflights –…
This week the Minneapolis Star Tribune did a really good piece on the role of the “Specialty” funeral director in our society. What they referred to as the “Specialty” funeral director those of us in the industry have referred to as the “trade” service. You can read the article here. The basics of the article…
It’s Friday and we just thought that we would bring you some stories and/or news videos from around the profession to end the week. Here is what we have for you today: Pet Loss: This short news video story from a Texas television station tells the story of a pet crematory that has allegedly had…
Yesterday we told you of an effort to find unclaimed cremation remains permanent memorial places through a non-profit group. Today we just want to tell funeral home operators of another way that they can help with the final memorialization of our veterans. I never thought of this issue before, but it is out there and…
The funeral and cremation profession in Australia is an industry that takes in about US $ 1.12 billion in revenue each year (all amounts in this article have been converted to U.S. values). That’s only about 7% of the purported industry revenue of $16.3 billion that the United States death care profession reels in, however,…
Australian funeral customer Jane Sinclair has created a little bit of a stir down under by calling for more transparency in the way that client families are charged for funeral services. Ms. Sinclair, according to this article from ABC Australia, complained months after the services were performed for her mother. She is quoted as saying…
This article from a European publication indicates that the recent visit to Ireland by President Donald Trump and his contingent paid off handsomely for an Irish based livery company. It is estimated that the Irish livery company JP Ward & Sons will receive close to $1 million during the Presidential trip that includes the D-Day…
During my time as a funeral home owner I had to visit with the county Social Services director, with other funeral home owners, to discuss the procedure and re-imbursements for what we termed “county burials” about every other year. The discussion was always the same. . . .the county had a limited amount of money…
To cap off the week and the month of May we are forwarding to you three separate articles from the world of death care. Click on the links of these articles to learn more. State of Washington and its Death Certificate Problem- An editorial from the Spokane Spokesman-Review that you can read here goes into…
The standard “What business are you in” history lesson is still taught at the nation’s top business schools. That lesson goes way back to when I was in college and contemplates the question of how you define your business may actually make or break the business as the business goes forward in times of technological…
