Cremation

Being Careful with Cremation

By Funeral Director Daily / October 17, 2018 /

With cremation as a choice of disposition gaining acceptance and practice across the United States it stands to reason that funeral homes and crematory operators don’t just get into “a routine” without checking all of the boxes prior to the actual cremation.  Since cremation is irreversible, it behooves us as a profession to get it…

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Cremation growing in France

By Funeral Director Daily / October 11, 2018 /

It is always interesting to see what is happening in the death care profession around the world.  We recently came across this article from the Connexion with news from France that indicates the growing trend of cremation is also occurring in that country. According to that article 63% of the people asked in 2018 said…

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Does Pure Cremation Have it Right?

By Funeral Director Daily / September 27, 2018 /

According to an article from the United Kingdom’s Telegraph which you can read here, funeral director Catherine Powell encountered a family a few years ago that explicitly said all they wanted was a cremation with the ashes returned to them.  Nothing more.  Powell complied and the customer was very pleased. Powell remembers thinking that if…

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An Idea for Cremation Pricing

By Funeral Director Daily / September 13, 2018 /

Yesterday we published an article dealing with the on going price wars for “Simple” cremation in the United Kingdom.  It made me wonder about the different pricing methods used by full service funeral establishments in dealing with their cremation clients. For the sake of our discussion, in this article, we are dealing with those full…

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Cremation Monday

By Funeral Director Daily / September 10, 2018 /

If you are or have been in the death care business for any length of time you can relate to all the talk about the popularity of cremation gaining in the last twenty years and at an incredible pace for the past 5-7 years.  All of us know of the issues that lower revenue per…

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Extrapolating the Trends

By Funeral Director Daily / August 22, 2018 /

In the last couple of days I have read articles from different areas of the United States pertaining to the establishment of “Green Cemeteries” in those locales.  The first you can read here and comes from the southern portion of Illinois and concerns the City of Carbondale turning a city cemetery over to the option…

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Thinking of adding a Crematory?

By Funeral Director Daily / August 13, 2018 /

Over thirty-five years as an owner operator of a community funeral home I made hundreds of business decisions.  Some were easy, some were hard, some worked out, some didn’t.  The one common denominator is that I did my research and thought that I was doing the right thing to either help the community or gain…

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Another Reason for Burial of Cremated Remains

By Funeral Director Daily / August 9, 2018 /

Those of us at Funeral Director Daily have told you that we truly advocate for the memorialization of cremated remains in an earth grave with marker or cemetery niche or columbarium. Today we bring you these moving photos and video following an apartment fire in Providence, Rhode Island.  One photo captures the moment a firefighter…

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Cremation – What’s Next in the Market?

By Funeral Director Daily / August 7, 2018 /

The Cremation Association of North America just wrapped up its weeklong gathering of cremation professionals at CANA2018.  While I did not attend, I have kept up with some of the issues that were discussed and saw a quote come out of the convention that I wanted to discuss further. The quote I am referring to…

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In Today’s News

By Funeral Director Daily / August 2, 2018 /

We noticed an article and a news story this morning that we thought were worth sharing.  The first story is from Bloomberg News and is entitled “Mortuary Company Stays ahead of Debt by Digging graves before People Die”.  You can read the story here, which deals with public death care company StoneMor Partners and their…

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