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Recently ASD has joined Cressy Memorial, maker of the Crowne Vault, as a sponsor of Funeral Director Daily. We are tremendously gratified for the confidence that these fine companies have put in us as we deliver information and other resources to the profession. We asked a spokesman for ASD to give us a little information…
We recently learned thru a press release, that you can read here, of a Toronto based company, UrbanRIP, that has created a new urn called the Candlestick Egg Urn. From our point of view, it is an urn designed to fit in a home decor where it will have meaning and accessibility for the family…
I heard about this process almost a year ago but did not really know enough to write on the subject until I came across this article from The Telegraph, a publication of Hearst Media. The process that I refer to is that of tattoo removal from a deceased body. As it turns out there are…
Cressy Memorial, an Indiana based group that operates as a sales and marketing agency for industry manufacturers, has become the very first sponsor of Funeral Director Daily. You can see a photo of one of their products, the Crowne Vault, in the upper right hand corner of every page of Funeral Director Daily. In 2006,…
While the event that led to the offer is certainly something that no city anywhere should have to go through, we have learned today in this media release that many funeral homes in El Paso, Texas, will offer free services to those killed in the mass shooting attack in that city on Saturday. As of…
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…
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…
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 –…
