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“Death Care” when I first heard the phrase, consisted of those businesses that offered funeral services, cremations, caskets, vaults, memorial products, prep room supplies, funeral home and cemetery supplies, and cemetery services. While world-wide in scope. it was a pretty small circle of products and services that were deemed “Death Care”. I recently…
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The title of this article poses what seems to be a simple question. I don’t think it is. We recently printed an article that brought attention to the fact that Batesville and Tukios “made a deal” that, at least from my point of view, allowed Batesville to concentrate on its “core” business…
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Recently I came across this article from the website of 24/7 Wall Street about “Eco-friendly” funerals. The article appears to be a public relations article on the website intended for readers to look at investment opportunities in the Death Care field. What caught my eye, however, was a sub-title in the article…
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I never know what will catch my eye as I peruse articles that I believe may contain information that will be helpful to the business operators of funeral homes, crematories, preneed agencies, and cemeteries. Just the other day I was reading this article from the Cedar Rapids (IA) Gazette which included comments that contained…
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Celestis, the memorial spaceflight program for cremated remains, recently lost its spacecraft from the Perseverence flight and the 166 cremated remains and/or human DNA carried with it. This article from MSN states that the remains “. . . have now been spread across the Pacific Ocean after a malfunction caused the recovery capsule’s…
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As of July 1, 2025, Natural Organic Reduction, or Terramation as some call it, became a legal form of disposition in the state of Minnesota. According to information that I believe reliable, Minnesota was the 11th state to pass legislation permitting such and the 13th state to activate the process. The process of…
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It was announced last week by Tukios, a leading provider of funeral home websites, that their websites are now equiped to rank in AI searches. According to Tukios, “this optimization makes all Tukios websites ready for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) — the modern version of SEO — helping funeral homes get noticed by…
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HBO’s recent documentary “The Mortician” probably gave the Death Care profession some bad publicity. However, at least in one case as evidenced by this article in The Free Press titled “My husband wants to be cremated. I’d ignore his dying wish“, it brought out a re-constituted call for the traditional visitation and funeral.…
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I don’t know what Death Care will look like ten years from now but I do know that change happens, and in some way, the logistics of it will be different than today. This recent article from Forbes titled “Tech and Deathcare: A new challenge to an old industry” ends with the…
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In the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed articles that truly point to Death Care as being at a nexus, or intersection, of technology and tradition. Today’s Funeral Director Daily article brings you information and links to articles that truly show that Death Care is changing. There is one article that shows…
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