Cremation
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…
Read MoreLast 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…
Read MoreFor 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…
Read MoreI’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…
Read MoreEirene 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…
Read MoreIt 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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