Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery, our nation’s national cemetery, is somewhat between a rock and a hard place as they plan the future of the cemetery. I don’t think anybody disagrees with Karen Durham-Aguilera, the cemetery’s executive director when she states, “We want to be open. We want to have that opportunity for that 5-year-old who’s going…
It’s been kind of a funny week at Funeral Director Daily. Each day of the week I look for articles pertaining to the death care industry to offer up to my readers. Most deal with funeral business, new products, new ideas, financial results, cemeteries, and the preneed industry. This week, it seems like I’ve done…
Over the history of successful products you will encounter many that the intended use for the product never developed into something big, but another use came into play, many times by accident, that worked out okay for the developers of the product. First, let’s take a quick look at some products that have became very…
Over the years that I have done the research for the articles that appear in Funeral Director Daily, among others, I have noticed two trends that are definitely growing in the death care world. One of those trends is that of Green or Natural burials. Virtually every day when I look for articles that will…
As we gather to celebrate Memorial Day 2021 it has been just over a year since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. I don’t live too far from Minneapolis and that incident has not only rocked that city and my area, but has been an incident heard all over the world. Add to that…
Upholding to the Covid-19 social distancing rules of the University of Minnesota the graduating class and faculty of the Department of Mortuary Science had to come up with a creative way to make this year’s graduation ceremonies memorable for the graduating seniors. With indoor facilities on campus off limits for this year, the department worked…
A big part of our mission at Funeral Director Daily is to look around the death care industry and report what we see happening in the profession back to our fellow funeral directors. Our thought is that those fellow funeral directors were much like I was in my 35 year front-line funeral service career —…
It’s not only funeral homes and cemeteries that are in the business of growing their businesses to better serve clientele. Last week we received word that Wilbert, Inc., the nation’s preeminent burial vault company, made an acquisition to bolster their presence in the Northeast corridor of the United States. Here is the information that we…
