Cremation
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…
According to this article from the Pine Journal, Bob and Karen Atkins operate the Atkins-Northland Funeral Home and Crematory in Cloquet, Minnesota. The couple is responsible for a business with a volume of about 160 deaths annually and when the cremation percentage started to rise they decided to put in a human crematory instead of…
Environmentally friendly can come in different ideas and can be different for different people. In the death care industry there is no shortage of those that want to capitalize on the growing green movement among societies. In that regard, I found three articles published at different places from around the world that dealt with, in…
Today we bring you this article with multiple photos and a news video from Portland, Oregon television station KOIN. It concerns the First Call Mortuary Services of Portland and the problems they have recently had with emissions from their crematory. According to the article the mortuary service has had at least 21 cases of dark,…
Over the weekend I read an interesting article from the British publication Moneywise, which you can read here. The article was titled, “Cremation monopoly force prices Up” and deals with, what I would call cremation prices outside of a major metro area. For the sake of this discussion, I believe that the definition of cremation…
Later tonight the El Cajon (California) Planning Commission will have the opportunity to approve an application to approve the first crematory in that city. According to an article in East County Magazine that you can read here, Robert Zakar, owner of El Cajon Mortuary, is seeking to add on-site cremation services to his existing funeral…
A recent article from The Universe, a Brigham Young University publication, which you can read here starts off with the following quote, “The baby boomers have changed every industry in their lives, so they’ll change this one as well.” That was said by Utah funeral director and founder of the Nelson Family Mortuary Lance Nelson.…
When I first started making funeral arrangements it was in the day of over 90% earth burials in my community. I remember many times when making the removal of the deceased at the nursing home, hospital, or private residence that the next of kin would say to me, “When do we come in to pick…
