Cremation
The last thing I want to do with Funeral Director Daily is get into political sides of issues. And, I will try to once again straddle the line today with this article I entitle “COVID-19 and Cremation. . more cremation. . what could it mean”. I happened to see this article entitled “The COVID-19 Cremation…
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I came across this recent article from Seed Investor entitled “Solace co-founder David Odusanya on the impact of COVID-19”. The article intrigued me, not because of the COVID-19 fact, but because I knew that Solace was the company founded in Portland, Oregon, by two Nike executives to enter the low-cost direct cremation market. According to…
Read MoreA few months ago and already into the travel related issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) was one of the first, if not the first, trade organization to announce that they would be foregoing their traditional convention and replacing that convention with something touted as a “Virtual Convention”. In…
Read MoreIn today’s edition of Funeral Director Daily’s Afternoon Edition, among other stories, we bring you the story of a Washington state funeral home that had its 20-year old crematory catch on fire on Friday. According to news reports swift action by staff and the local fire department made for minimal damage at Moles Farewell Tributes…
Read MoreAs we mentioned in yesterday’s feature article that pertained to the financial side of the death care industry, it has been a different and interesting year in that realm. Today, we will be reminding you that it has also been an interesting and different year on the relationship side of the profession. I’m a guy…
Read MoreToday’s article may take a little thinking outside the box, but I think that there is some justification to thinking in the model that I will relate. As a funeral director during the time period of 1980 and 2015 I, arguably served in the period that cremation made its upswing in American death culture. And,…
Read MoreAccording to this article from ARY News, the Great Britain drafted emergency Coronavirus Bill 2019-21, it is said to allow designated local authorities to disregard section 46(3) of the Public Health Act of 1984. That section is designed to prevent a public authority to be able to cremate a body against the wishes of the…
Read MoreOver the weekend we noticed this article from the Perryville News of Perryville, Missouri. It concerns an issue that we are seeing more and more of as funeral homes and other concerns attempt to place new crematories in areas that they have not been located in before. That issue centers around the public perception of…
Read MoreOur funeral home firm embarked on building a new physical funeral home with a first ever, for us, crematory included in 2005. It’s hard to believe that we have been headquartered there for 15 years as I remember things such as pointing out what trees we wanted to save on the bare lot. Some of…
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