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A funeral business advantage

By Funeral Director Daily / March 17, 2020 /

During my high school summers I worked for a furniture store delivering furniture. One of the things that I came to realize during that time was the concept of warranties and just how much it mattered in that business. The owner of the furniture store and the sales reps sold furniture not only with the…

Cemetery clean up — Is there a perfect way to notify families?

By Funeral Director Daily / March 6, 2020 /

We bring you this article from the Longview (TX) News Journal that deals with the clean up of two cemeteries in the city. The cemeteries are both owned by Service Corporation International and the news article deals with some families dismay that they believe that they were not properly notified of the clean up. According…

Human composting bill introduced in New York

By Funeral Director Daily / March 5, 2020 /

Last year the state of Washington became the first in the nation to legalize human disposition by human composting or recomposition, as it has been termed. That law allows the process starting on May 1 of this year. Since that news broke we know of efforts in Colorado to move recomposition forward. We also know…

Keeping up with Green cemeteries

By Funeral Director Daily / February 21, 2020 /

While Funeral Director Daily has not written much on the subject lately, in today’s news feed we found two articles on the green burial movement that we thought we should pass on to our readers. According to one of the articles, Green – or Natural burials – is said to consume 4% of the death…

Cremation only cemetery being planned

By Funeral Director Daily / February 12, 2020 /

The city of Amherst, New York, is proposing to build a “first of its kind’ memory garden in that community. The cemetery, if built, proposes to be a cremation only cemetery with walking paths and gardens and would not allow standard headstones as seen in most cemeteries. The idea has been proposed by the city…

TGIF – It’s been quite a week!!

By Funeral Director Daily / February 7, 2020 /

Let’s see. . . Super Bowl, State of the Union Speech, Impeachment Vote, my Minnesota Twins got involved in a blockbuster baseball trade, and my Minnesota Gophers beat arch-rival Wisconsin in basketball. . . it’s been quite a week to keep everything straight. To end it for my Funeral Director Daily readers I will not…

Throwback Thursday — Cold weather and the burial business

By Funeral Director Daily / January 23, 2020 /

Editor’s Note: I happen to be on vacation this week. And, when you are from Minnesota, you take vacation in a warm weather climate. Just for a little throwback to last year at this time, I happened to be on my vacation from Minnesota when the Polar Vortex got stuck over the state. And, I…

Columbarium conundrum

By Funeral Director Daily / January 16, 2020 /

The realization that 57% of cremated remains are not accounted for by means whereas the deceased can be memorialized into the future has caused some church communities to wonder if their ministry can help address the needs of the community that would lower this number. According to this article in the Rancho Santa Fe Review,…

Cemeteries and their problems

By Funeral Director Daily / January 2, 2020 /

Over the last couple of years of writing the daily article for Funeral Director Daily one of my routines is to continuously search for information that might be of interest to those in the funeral, memorial, or what is now being called the “Death Care” space. In doing so, I have came across many articles,…

Cemetery upkeep, price changes, and use

By Funeral Director Daily / December 27, 2019 /

As we close out this Christmas week we thought we would share with you some information on cemeteries that we noticed in the news this week. Our first news story and video comes to us from New Orleans and deals with the Lafayette Cemetery Number 1, which is being closed to visitors for the next…

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