Cremation
It was noted in The Courier Express of Dubois, Pennsylvania, in an article that you can see here, that the Adamson Funeral Chapel in Dubois had a revised land development plan for a crematory approved by the Sandy Township Planning Commission. According to the article, the Adamson Funeral Chapel is proposing to build a 1500…
Read MoreIn 2011 Davina Bambrick was forced to euthanize her 14-year old dog, Bennie. She now says that the worst of that situation was when “Bennie was abruptly whisked away” after being euthanized. She commented recently, “It was kind of an unusual process, that lacked a lot of care or empathy at the time. We weren’t…
Read MoreIt’s became almost a weekly occurrence whereby I notice an article in a United States newspaper that pits a company that is in the cremation business against others in their community about where to locate a new crematory. Such is the case today in a dispute over a crematory location in Dayton, Ohio. This battle,…
Read MoreSince February 2018 there has been a moratorium on the installation and licensing of liquid cremation, also known as alkaline hydrolysis or water cremation, in the Canadian province of Ontario. At this point in time, according to this article from the Ottawa Citizen, the Wartman Funeral Home of Kingston is the only facility in the…
Read MoreFuneral Director Daily had kept you informed about what has become known as the “Jedi bill” in the state of Missouri this spring and summer. The bill, proposed by State Senator Jason Holsman, a Democrat from Kansas City, would have allowed for outdoor cremations and supposedly made Missouri a mecca for so-called “Viking or Jedi…
Read MoreA Missouri legislative bill with nearly unanimous consent has recently passed out of the Missouri legislature and is awaiting Governor Mike Parson’s decision to sign the bill into law. You can read more about this bill here from KansasCity.com. The bill, according to the article, would allow licensed funeral directors to organize outdoor cremations at…
Read MoreI mentioned earlier this week that I spent last week in Las Vegas with about 150 people in our profession. Lots of items get bantered about at this event and one that was visited about quite frequently last week was the opening of Tulip Cremations. While I have only anecdotal knowledge of Tulip Cremation, I…
Read MoreI read an interesting article the other day published by Reuters out of Tokyo, Japan. It piqued my interest because I have seen in the recent past and believe going forward that new crematory facilities will continue to be a challenge to get built in locations across North America. My belief stems from the fact…
Read MoreAn article that you can read here appeared in today’s issue of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reflecting the fact that the urn of pop star Prince has been taken away from the public space at his Paisley Park home/museum. The article goes on to say that family members are somewhat in disagreement about the proper…
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