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Pricing is relative, but one low-cost provider can beat us all up

By Funeral Director Daily / October 2, 2023 /

Inflation has set in. . . I recently had to install a new air conditioning condenser to our existing HVAC combination unit. An air conditioning condensor, like a funeral or cremation expense, is something you don’t buy everyday. . . . in fact, maybe less than once a decade. And, when I called…

Private Equity claims another death care provider

By Funeral Director Daily / August 7, 2023 /

While most of us have been anticipating some news on the acquisition front from Australia and the proposed takeover of InvoCare by TPG Capital or waiting for some news on the North American proposal of Park Lawn Corporation to acquire Carriage Services, news came late last week that Great Britain’s large direct cremation…

Permanent Memorialization: What does it mean in today’s world?

By Funeral Director Daily / August 2, 2023 /

On the same day last week three different articles or press releases came to my inbox and those pieces of literature formed a mental Venn Diagram for me about cremation and memorialization. The articles, taken together made me think about the continuing growth of cremation and what will be done with the cremated remains…

Is your message reaching the “Right” audience?

By Funeral Director Daily / August 1, 2023 /

I think every funeral home owner and marketing directors of larger funeral home, crematory, and cemetery operations by now understands that social media has some say in how people perceive your business is operated and how it may take care of their family if and when necessary. One big question, however, is…

Is time up for the Undertaker?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 2, 2023 /

That headline, “Is time up for the Undertaker”, is the headline from this press release issued earlier in May on behalf of Great Britain’s direct cremation provider Pure Cremation. Pure Cremation recently conducted what they call “The Big Future of Funerals Survey” and, according to their conclusions, it points to the fact…

Will Illinois bill set a precedent for the future of cremation remains

By Funeral Director Daily / May 19, 2023 /

A reader of Funeral Director Daily recently sent me information on Illinois HB 1367 that is a bill under consideration in the state legislature of Illinois that the bill’s author states in this radio interview will (allow for a) “concept of how cremated remains are handled in the future”. According to this…

Memorial spaceflight fails to reach orbit

By Funeral Director Daily / May 17, 2023 /

In what was reminiscent of the 1986 Challenger explosion, you can see in this video embedded in this article, an explosion only seconds into launch that caused a suborbital rocket carrying the cremated remains of 120 humans destined for earth orbit, to disintegrate and fall to earth. The rocket was launched by Up…

Grief without the grave

By Funeral Director Daily / April 28, 2023 /

There are approximately 3 million deaths in the United States each year. As of 2023, about 40% of those deaths are interred as “Traditional Earth Burials”. That leaves about 1.8 million deaths that are cremations, alkaline hydrolysis, green burials, or natural organic reduction forms of disposition. In almost all of the three…

Cremation — already the “New Tradition”

By Funeral Director Daily / January 30, 2023 /

It’s no secret that as a percentage of dispositions, cremation continues to grow. This article from Forbes entitled “Cremation is gaining popularity as funeral costs rise” gives that indication and their thoughts on why that is so. Forbes states in the article that over the last 15 years the United States cremation rate…

More Jewish families opting for cremation

By Funeral Director Daily / January 19, 2023 /

I’ll be the first to tell you that I’m certainly not an expert on the subject of faith preference and burial customs because the community that I served was, I’m guessing, at least 95% Christian of those that practiced faith. However, I know some of the history since as before Vatican II in…

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