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Last 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…
While 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…
In an article that appeared in FastCompany.com that you can read here, Dutch architectural firm HofmanDujardin, described what it believes may become the new wave of funeral home ceremony establishments. The design, which has not been built, was inspired by their attendance at a death of a partner whose funeral was attended by the principals…
A recent article from The Universe, a Brigham Young University publication, which you can read here starts off with the following quote, “The baby boomers have changed every industry in their lives, so they’ll change this one as well.” That was said by Utah funeral director and founder of the Nelson Family Mortuary Lance Nelson.…
When I first started making funeral arrangements it was in the day of over 90% earth burials in my community. I remember many times when making the removal of the deceased at the nursing home, hospital, or private residence that the next of kin would say to me, “When do we come in to pick…
Pure Cremation, the company that was started in the United Kingdom in 2015 recently announced that it will have received a total of US $10 million in funding for its low cost model of simple cremations following death. According to this article from Evening Express which you can read here, Elliot Kaye, an investment director…
My wife and I enjoy going through the Ikea store near Mall of America in the Minneapolis suburbs. Virtually everything we find there is not only modern and up to date, but we can purchase it for a discount in a box, bring it home, and put it together. We not only get a great…
I read an article the other day that I found in the consumer “Watchdog” section of the Dallas News. The article that you can read here pertained to a direct mail piece advertising “Free Burials for Eligible Veterans and Spouses”. That type of ad is not uncommon and if you are in the funeral business…
