Cremation

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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SCI opens “Nation’s First-of-its-Kind” Mausoleum

By Funeral Director Daily / November 8, 2024 /

    In a press release we received last week funeral home and cemetery operator/consolidator Service Corporation International (SCI) announced the opening of its new property in Sandy Springs, Georgia.   According to the press release that you can read here, the company’s Arlington Memorial Park is “the first memorial structure of its kind designed…

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Better Place Forests launches cost-conscious option

By Funeral Director Daily / October 24, 2024 /

    Last week we learned through this press release that Better Place Forests was offering a new product to consumers that they felt would appeal to those consumers in a cost-conscious manner.  The new product is known as “Spreading Groves” and gives consumers the option of scattering cremated remains in Better Place Forest dedicated…

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Florida’s Van Orsdel Funeral & Cremation adds “Water Cremation”

By Funeral Director Daily / September 26, 2024 /

    Fifty years ago services were almost all traditional casketed funerals with earth burials.  Then, for the next 50 years cremation choice by the consumer started building until we now have an approximate 60% cremation rate of disposition across the United States.   So, what is next?  Consumers have started adding eco-friendly options to…

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The Crematory Dilemma: Continued consumer choice vs. the NIMBY attitude

By Funeral Director Daily / September 25, 2024 /

    For over a year and a half Funeral Director Daily has followed the application process of the Evans Funeral Chapel in trying to locate and build a new crematory in the White Marsh area of Baltimore (MD) County.  It now appears, because of a zoning change for the land in question, that the…

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Carriage Services: Strategies driving improvements

By Funeral Director Daily / August 15, 2024 /

  I’m one that believes you can learn something from seeing what the public companies in funeral service are doing.  When I was active with my funeral home in the business I would read their quarterly reports and look at whatever comments were made during the companies quarterly earnings call transcripts. . . . .Even…

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Where’s Waldo? . . .and what happened to Eirene?

By Funeral Director Daily / August 6, 2024 /

    Eirene Cremations, the Toronto based direct-cremation business seems to have vanished from the world of Death Care.  It was not so long ago that the company announced expansion into Western Canada and the state of Florida from their Toronto base.   Then only a couple of weeks ago Funeral Director Daily was told…

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Cremation has grown to a rate where growth is now “decelerating”

By Funeral Director Daily / July 24, 2024 /
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  It was back in June when the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) issued its 2024 Annual Statistical Report.  That report showed as CANA said, “. . . “the national cremation rate has grown steadily and predictably for the last 50 years, indicating that neither the recession nor the pandemic have influenced the growth…

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