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In recent months at Funeral Director Daily we have kept up with what we think are some of the newer ways to memorialize that consumers are thinking about such as alkaline hydrolysis, recombination (human composting), potential outdoor cremation and the like. Until we saw this article we had forgot all about Celestis Memorial Spaceflights –…
Read MoreA written article and video news story from NBC Connecticut that you can see here tells the story of the death and eventual burial of Ms. Tessa Pascarella. The story is one of the difficulty of having a green burial on land you own and how that can be accomplished. To me, it is also…
Read MoreWe informed you a couple of weeks ago that the State of Washington’s House and Senate had approved both the ability for final disposition not only for alkaline hydrolysis, but for “recomposition” or what some refer to as “human composting. Just the other day we found this article in the Australian publication, The New Daily,…
Read MoreWe 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…
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