Cemetery
Every day when I search for articles that relate to our profession I see multiple articles that deal with “Green Burial”. And, if you follow trends, you will know that the rule is that before trends are adopted in common use, they grow in media articles as people are learning about them. So, I see…
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Less than a month ago Funeral Director Daily published this article that questioned if the days of funeral homes and cemeteries helping each other are over. That article questioned the competitive nature of each entity that now sold products historically affiliated with the other entity as a way of “full service shopping” for death care…
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In Minnesota being at the “Lake Cabin” from Memorial Day to Labor Day is cherished time. We are having our cabin kitchen remodeled this winter and expect to purchase new appliances to be in place by Memorial Day. It’s interesting as we look at appliances to purchase “availability dates” are a new variable in what…
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Throughout my entire career in a small community, the funeral homes and the cemeteries helped each other out. We had somewhat of a mutual dependence on each other that helped us both. For instance, when our funeral home served a family we would always suggest earth burial or entombment for the full body casketed funeral…
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I recently finished Bill O’Reilly’s book “Killing the Mob”. It is one of about a dozen books in a series by O’Reilly all with the “Killing” titles. I’ve learned that “Killing” is just the title series and the books are really about the history of people, movements, and time periods. Of the books I’ve read…
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I would guess it was twenty years ago or about that length of time that I was asked to volunteer as a board member of our community’s largest non-denominational cemetery. The cemetery was large enough and did enough business that it had a full-time caretaker who took care of sales, provided interment services using cemetery…
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In a transaction announced last week but completed on December 27, 2021, according to this press release, Wilbert has merged operations with Memorial Monuments & Vaults (MMV) headquartered in Meridian, Idaho. According to the press release, MMV has 19 locations in the western part of the United States and provides monuments and related funeral services…
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This article will be sent to Funeral Director Daily subscribers on the last day of 2021. By that time America will have passed the 800,000 number of deaths due to Covid-19 and will have had more deaths in 2021 than in 2020. That’s 800,000 individual human beings who have lost their lives and it is…
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Not every article that appears in Funeral Director Daily has a direct bearing on the business world of funerals, cremations, and burials. However, if you stick with me with this article, dealing with this discovery, we will discuss the power of heritage funerals among other things. A sword found buried in a Scottish grave in…
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A New Hampshire community has again delayed – until at least Spring 2022 – the decision on an ordinance to allow “Green Burials” in two city owned cemeteries. The City Manager of Lebanon City, New Hampshire, Shaun Mulholland, was quoted in this article from Valley News as saying, “This has gone on for two years…
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