Business
Excuse me for doing a little reminiscing today, but today (July 16) would be my father’s 101st birthday. I lost my father to a sudden heart attack – while he was servicing a funeral – on Easter weekend 1977, 42 years ago, when I was a teenager. Life has certainly moved forward since then, but…
Today we bring you two articles about funeral homes and real estate that have been in the news lately. We have written many times about zoning issues for funeral homes, crematories, and cemeteries, but today one of the articles actually tells of a funeral home that residents do not want to see demolished and the…
We’ve all seen it on television — the urban death scene where the coroner pulls up with his staff in the coroner van ready to remove the body from the scene to the morgue. Of course, metropolitan areas have professionally paid coroners, deputy coroners, and staff available to make these removals. I read this recent…
Last week I read this article from the Minneapolis Star Tribune focused on the Fortune 500 company, General Mills. General Mills is a Minneapolis based company – and has been for a long time – which leads to much media coverage for them in the state of Minnesota. The article pertained to the fact that…
From time to time we like to feature businesses who for some reason or other have an interesting story to tell. Today, we bring you the story of the Shafer Monument Company of Mitchell, South Dakota. As we move into the 2nd half of 2019 the Shafer family is celebrating their 100th year of business. …
When I was growing up and in elementary school in the 1960’s there was a saying about Presidential elections. That saying was, “As Maine goes, so goes the nation”. What it meant was that the state of Maine had an uncanny ability to vote with the winning candidate in so many elections. In today’s left…
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…
