Cremation

Parting Stone celebrates 10,000 families served, New York Post publishes article on the growing “Cremation Aftermarket”

By Funeral Director Daily / March 27, 2025 /

  Parting Stone, the New Mexico based start-up that takes cremated ash remains and turns them into what they term “Solidified Remains” recently sent out this press release celebrating their 10,000th family served in their short business history.   In the press release the company says this about their achievement, “This milestone marks a significant…

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More individuality, less religiosity

By Funeral Director Daily / March 25, 2025 /

    It probably won’t surprise anybody in the Death Care profession that a recent study showed that “Individuality” in funeral choice is becoming far more popular that “Religiosity”.  As a matter of fact, 68% of those consumers questioned believed in holding a “Celebration of Life” rather than a “Time of Reflection”.   And, that…

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Cremated remains Priceless? These were ransomed for $2 million

By Funeral Director Daily / March 21, 2025 /

  It’s not your father’s Death Care world anymore.  Because if you are currently involved in the Death Care business it seems like everyday something new happens that we haven’t thought about before. . . .  and hadn’t happened in the past.   Recently this story broke about what happened on South Korea’s Jeju Island. …

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Location, economics of clientele can lead to cemetery success/failure

By Funeral Director Daily / March 14, 2025 /

    A couple of recent articles that I read give an indication of how the financial success of cemeteries can vary based on location and/or the clientele that may be using the cemetery.   I’m from the state of Minnesota and more specifically an area outside of the metropolitan Minneapolis/St. Paul demographic market.  My…

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Should Disney be in the “Memorialization” business?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 30, 2025 /

    Over the last couple of decades there arises every once in a while the idea that the Walt Disney Company should get into some of the businesses that funeral home operators and cemetery operators specialize in.  That’s recently been in the news again.   I first really thought about Disney and Death Care…

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North Carolina floods, Florida hurricanes, and L.A. wildfires: The tragedy of losing “kept at home” cremated remains

By Funeral Director Daily / January 24, 2025 /

    If you have read Funeral Director Daily for any length of time you will know that I am an advocate of “Permanent Memorialization” of loved ones.  My reason for that belief is pretty simple. . . 1)  It is just the way I was brought up and 2) I believe every life has…

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Here’s the “Recipe” for more monument sales

By Funeral Director Daily / January 7, 2025 /

  While we cannot guarantee success with every idea, one of the reasons for reading Funeral Director Daily is that we endeavor to give ideas to Death Care professionals that can have a positive impact on the financial results of your funeral home, crematory, or cemetery.   And, with the continuing choice of cremation as…

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An Online Cremation “Ad-vertorial”

By Funeral Director Daily / December 26, 2024 /

  For the past 20 years or so since the advent of online news by the legacy television news broadcasters there has been a “blurring of the lines” between news and advertising.  I happened to run across this apparent “ad-vertorial” for national online direct cremation company Tulip Cremation the other day and just wanted to…

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Veteran’s Affairs Cemeteries to offer “Green Burial” pilot programs

By Funeral Director Daily / December 13, 2024 /

    It’s probable to say that the fad of Green Burials has turned into a trend and may have become an accepted norm to human disposition.  Evidence of this is given by the decision of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs announcing in this press release that it is instituting a “pilot program”…

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Survey indicates the Top Location in each state for dispersal of cremated remains

By Funeral Director Daily / November 21, 2024 /

    In October Choice Mutual, an end-of-life burial insurance company released the results of a nationwide survey of over 3,000 individuals that, among other things, asked where in their home state would they want their cremated ashes to be dispersed or scattered.   According to one article I read, the impetus for this survey…

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