Cemetery

Better Place Forests to become a Non-Profit

By Funeral Director Daily / May 8, 2025 /

    Better Place Forests is one of those ideas whose time has come.  As a 33-year funeral director who has seen the social mores of Death Care move away from the traditional options during that time, I see where there is a place for ideas like Better Place Forest to catch on with a…

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. . . .and the caissons go rolling along

By Funeral Director Daily / April 30, 2025 /

  It will have been over two years since the last horse-drawn caisson carried a United States military member to their grave at Arlington National Cemetery when the horse-drawn caissons are again given that opportunity.   According to this article, “The U.S. Army announced . .  the limited reintegration of the caisson into funeral services…

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The Pope has died. What happens next?

By Funeral Director Daily / April 23, 2025 /

  I awoke early Monday morning to hear of the death of Pope Francis.  Pope Francis, who was 88 years of age at the time of his death, had served in his present position since 2013.   There is no doubt that his death will bring immense publicity to his funeral wishes and the historic…

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Everstory Partners transforms through technology

By Funeral Director Daily / March 26, 2025 /

    Everstory Partners serves over 65,000 families annually and in addition to its funeral home business, operates close to 400 cemeteries around the United States, including Puerto Rico.   Recently they authored this press release which lets us know that they have completed a process in which all cemeteries have been digitized.  Here’s what…

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Cremated remains Priceless? These were ransomed for $2 million

By Funeral Director Daily / March 21, 2025 /

  It’s not your father’s Death Care world anymore.  Because if you are currently involved in the Death Care business it seems like everyday something new happens that we haven’t thought about before. . . .  and hadn’t happened in the past.   Recently this story broke about what happened on South Korea’s Jeju Island. …

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Location, economics of clientele can lead to cemetery success/failure

By Funeral Director Daily / March 14, 2025 /

    A couple of recent articles that I read give an indication of how the financial success of cemeteries can vary based on location and/or the clientele that may be using the cemetery.   I’m from the state of Minnesota and more specifically an area outside of the metropolitan Minneapolis/St. Paul demographic market.  My…

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County sets inspections to make sure cemetery monuments are safe

By Funeral Director Daily / February 4, 2025 /

    If you have been a funeral director for any length of time you have found yourself in a cemetery on a beautiful summer day when after the formal committal service the family remains to visit and you see young children play on cemetery monuments.  However, as this archived CBS News article mentions, children…

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Should Disney be in the “Memorialization” business?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 30, 2025 /

    Over the last couple of decades there arises every once in a while the idea that the Walt Disney Company should get into some of the businesses that funeral home operators and cemetery operators specialize in.  That’s recently been in the news again.   I first really thought about Disney and Death Care…

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Here’s the “Recipe” for more monument sales

By Funeral Director Daily / January 7, 2025 /

  While we cannot guarantee success with every idea, one of the reasons for reading Funeral Director Daily is that we endeavor to give ideas to Death Care professionals that can have a positive impact on the financial results of your funeral home, crematory, or cemetery.   And, with the continuing choice of cremation as…

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A thought for the day. . . . . .

By Funeral Director Daily / December 24, 2024 /

    This short article will be going out on the morning of Christmas Eve and in preparing it I think of a Christmas Eve that always comes to mind for me in correlation to working in the funeral business.  It was probably in the 1990’s, I was probably in my late 30’s age-wise,  and…

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