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On February 7, 1964, the British pop rock group the Beatles touched down on the tarmac of John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City and were crowded by thousands of fans. Two days later they were introduced to America with an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. A typical fan at that time was…
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Want to deliver the audio at your own funeral with a text written after your death by your pastor or other spokesman? Evidently, voice synthesizing technology can now make that happen. . . . a written text will mimic your own voice, even after death giving you the opportunity to deliver your own funeral sermon.…
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Over the history of successful products you will encounter many that the intended use for the product never developed into something big, but another use came into play, many times by accident, that worked out okay for the developers of the product. First, let’s take a quick look at some products that have became very…
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Canada’s privately owned funeral home and cemetery company, Arbor Memorial, was recently selected as a “Gold Standard Winner” for Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies award for the 4th straight year. The award is the country’s leading business award program recognizing entrepreneurial companies for the caliber of their management abilities and practices. You can see a press…
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New ideas come to the forefront in all industries from time to time. Some never get going, some ideas stagnate, but it is really exciting when you see some ideas and concepts catch a tailwind and continue to move forward. In the last couple of weeks we have seen news from two death care start-ups,…
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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently published this article on Matthews International entitled “From tombstones to fuel cells, Matthews International wants to leave its mark on clean mobility“. The article is a great read on Matthews and reminded me that this “quiet company” of funeral service continues to make a difference every day, not only in the…
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There is an old song released in April 1981 and sung by Barbara Mandrel entitled, “I was Country when Country wasn’t cool”. I have to admit that when I entered my freshman year of college at Texas Christian University in September of 1976 I started hearing music that resonated with me. . . .Waylon Jennings,…
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Three University of Washington students recently won the $25,000 grand prize in a start-up competition hosted by the University of Washington’s Foster School Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. And, they did so with a pre-launch Death Care start-up they have named AfterLife Listings. Clara Kobashigawa, one of the three students was mentioned in this article from…
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I served as a funeral director in a small town and when somebody died, the news got out. There can be a difference between a death notice and an obituary or an obituary can serve as both. In America we have closed over 2,000 newspapers since the year 2000 and many communities no longer have…
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The big casket companies in America , in a non-Covid year, tell us that they are having their unit sales drop between 1 and 3% annually because of the nationwide increase in cremation percentages. However, in the not so distant future as the country’s high number of Baby Boomers start to pass away the increased…
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