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The Ontario liquid cremation debate

By Funeral Director Daily / July 30, 2019 /

Since February 2018 there has been a moratorium on the installation and licensing of liquid cremation, also known as alkaline hydrolysis or water cremation, in the Canadian province of Ontario.  At this point in time, according to this article from the Ottawa Citizen, the Wartman Funeral Home of Kingston is the only facility in the…

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Everybody is reading Funeral Director Daily

By Funeral Director Daily / July 11, 2019 /

Generally, I’ve never been one to blow my own horn.  I’ve always felt, “Just do my job and those I serve will be my best advertisers”.  However, I’ve found out that in the process of building a world-wide read blog, sometimes you have to tell people what is happening to help them get excited and…

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Better Place Forests. . . a new wave of memorialization

By Funeral Director Daily / June 28, 2019 /

It seems like this medium is many times writing about the need for more permanent memorialization options to be available for our death care consumers.  It also seems like we spend a lot of time writing about new start-ups in the death care profession that are hoping to catch the new wave of consumer thinking. …

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Crowdfunding. . . and funerals. . . growing?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 27, 2019 /

Over the past couple of years Funeral Director Daily has written some articles on the idea of going to a mass funding site to pay for funeral expenses.  We don’t know much about this, but we do know that it is a growing phenomena – not only with funerals – but with other large expenses…

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Today’s SpaceX launch to carry 152 cremated human remains

By Funeral Director Daily / June 24, 2019 /

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 –…

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15 month odyssey for Green Burial completed

By Funeral Director Daily / June 20, 2019 /

A 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…

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More on Recomposition

By Funeral Director Daily / May 15, 2019 /

We 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,…

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Burial in a Mushroom Suit

By Funeral Director Daily / May 13, 2019 /

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…

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Another way to honor our Veterans — VetTix

By Funeral Director Daily / May 10, 2019 /

Part 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…

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Fashion. . . .and the funeral

By Funeral Director Daily / May 8, 2019 /

While 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…

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