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We have written that funeral wishes and choices by the consumer is ever expanding in the death care market. We have written that the choices and alternatives outside of traditional earth burial and cremation continue to expand. Last October we wrote about a process, created by a company called Coeio, in which a deceased is…
Read MorePart of our duty here at Funeral Director Daily is to pass information and ideas that we have learned about on to working funeral directors. By doing so, we hope to give those funeral directors additional tools to help ease the lives of those they serve. Over the years we have told you where you…
Read MoreWhile this is a little out of the ordinary for Funeral Director Daily, I ran across a couple of articles that deal with fashion and/or fashion for the funeral director this week. Without much commentary I just thought they might be interesting for you to read. . . The first is a letter to Dear…
Read MoreFrom time to time at Funeral Director Daily we come across articles on products for the death care industry that we believe are new, innovative, and have promise. Today we are introducing you to “Planturns” – urns that double as planters. They have been created by Los Angeles based designer and woodworker C.C. Boyce. According…
Read MoreIt is pretty common for local funeral home owners to be involved in their local Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club, American Legion and the like. It is also pretty common that as these business minded folk earn respect in their communities they are asked to serve on school boards, city councils, and bank boards. Those type…
Read MoreIt’s a proven point that if you want to build a successful business and follow the American dream of making a lot of money, you need to deliver on and provide, at the right price, what the consumer public wants. I was fortunate enough about six years ago to listen to a friend of mine…
Read MoreWhat started out as a challenge to me from a blogger in another industry has turned into the fastest growing death care publication that can be found. Funeral Director Daily was established as a simple way for me to relate what I have learned in 33 years on the front line of funeral service and…
Read MoreI plan on ending the week by telling you about a product that I did not know existed until earlier this week when I was doing some research for future articles here at Funeral Director Daily. How many of you know about the “Infinity Burial Suit”? Here is the web-site where you can find out…
Read MoreLast week Funeral Director Daily passed the 500 subscriber mark for e-mails sent daily to regular readers. Thanks for signing up. All growth has been organic and now, since I’ve learned how to use Google and other search engines we are growing by about 1% per week. When you consider we had about 8 readers…
Read MoreWhile searching through articles pertaining to the death care industry I came across an article from Vice.com entitled, “Inside New Orleans Extreme Embalming Funerals” that you can read here. The article points out a trend, that as far as the author can tell started in Puerto Rico in about 2014 and has grown in acceptance…
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