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Earlier in May, the largest death care provider in North America, Service Corporation International, added what they call “human composting” services to their list of services provided by five funeral homes in the Seattle, Washington, area. This press release mentions that the process is also known as “natural organic reduction” and…
Read MoreHas the death care community ever studied if, when faced with economic difficulties, the purchase of death care such as funerals, caskets, cremations, and other services reflect those economic times or do the vast majority of death care consumers select the disposition option, such as burial and cremation, that is most meaningful…
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All three major indexes of the U.S. stock market, the Nasdaq Composite, the S&P 500, and the Dow Jones Industrials grew by 1% or more on Friday. That convinced me that, over the long weekend I should take a look at how the public companies that deal with Death Care have fared for…
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For the past 4 years of so since I’ve been putting pen to paper writing Funeral Director Daily as I do my research I invariably come across articles on Green Burials. Green Burials by my definition are “ecology based earth burials with as simple a disposition process that can be done”. They would…
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Earlier in April Parting Stone and its CEO Justin Crowe appeared on an episode of Shark Tank looking for potential investors to help move the company along into the mainstream of post-cremation remains options. And, while that happened as the company took an investment offer from well known Sharks Kevin O’Leary and Lori…
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I’ve been maligned and others in the profession have told me I am wrong when I say the funeral directors and funeral home owners can be “Entrepreneurial”. Several people have dropped me notes or emails that tell me I am “dead wrong” and death care is a business that is not entrepreneurial, but…
Read MoreI continue to be one of the dwindling daily hard copy newspaper readers left in America. It must be hereditary as my father subscribed to both the Minneapolis Tribune morning newspaper and the Minneapolis Star evening newspaper when I was growing up. I can remember vividly coming home from elementary school and spreading…
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Natural Organic Reduction (NOR), sometimes referred to as “human composting” may not be my ideal choice of body disposition. But, that thought does not make me any less of a fan and admirer of Recompose founder Katrina Spade. Spade, in only a few short years has moved NOR from idea to proven…
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Parting Stone, the company that has pioneered “solidified remains” for cremation remains, will be represented on ABC’s Shark Tank this Friday evening by founder and CEO Justin Crowe. According to a press release from Parting Stone, “. . . Crowe will be pitching the service on the April 7th episode of Shark Tank”.…
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