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“Affordability” is a buzz-word in the consumer vernacular at this time. And, unfortunately if you are in the funeral home or cemetery business, that relates down to the thinking a consumer does when looking at the cost of funeral or cemetery services at the time of need. Lately in looking for material for…
To my knowledge there is not an MBA program in Funeral Directing or Death Care to be found anywhere in the United States. However, through a partnership of Goalmakers and the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) individuals can participate in a 10-week interactive online program that will award successful participants a “CANA Deathcare Business…
The people at Chptr are not standing still. In the last couple of weeks they have added Death Care industry veteran Glenn Gould to their team in a position that they term President of Funeral Home Services. You can see a Chaptr release on that move here. The company also announced on March…
“If you are a funeral director and don’t know about Sunset yet you are probably missing out on a tool that your families would thank you for. . . ” Last week MarketWatch published an article (that is stopped by a paywall from accessing) about Sunset’s first ever “Estate Settlement Report Card“. That…
From 2015 to 2021 I served on the University of Minnesota Board of Regents. That 12-person governing board for the State of Minnesota got to know each other very well. One of the people I served with, and sat right next to at board meetings for four years, was the Minnesota legislature’s former Speaker…
For a period of time it was unknown to the owners of Caskets of Honor, located in Calvin, Oklahoma, that selling caskets in their home state was illegal without the procurement of a funeral director’s license. Then, according to this recent story from KFOR-TV of Oklahoma City, the husband and wife ownership team of…
I was a funeral director that operated my own funeral home with the help of five or six other licensed funeral directors. Much of the last 15 years of my work-life consisted of management, but there were times where I made funeral arrangements, wrote obituaries, and was asked to produce video tributes. …
Green-Wood Cemetery, the venerable and historic cemetery in New York City announced last week a plan to become the first facility on America’s East Coast that will offer Natural Organic Reduction (NOR) or Terramation within its facililty. Legalized in the state of New York in 2023, Green-Wood says, according to this recent article from…
One of the positive things of living during the winter months in a Florida golf community is that I get to meet and play golf with lots of new people with greatly differing backgrounds from my own. Just last Friday I got paired up with two new friends — one a retired police…
For as long as I can remember, those of us who work in Death Care have been un-deservedly percieved by many as part of a strange or dark world. You’re going to see that perception rise again as the new movie “The Mortuary Assistant” will debut in theatres on Friday the 13th of February.…
