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Legal Issues, Buying/Selling, Consumer Attitudes, and Preneed: Great webinars lined up for May

By Funeral Director Daily / May 6, 2025 /

    I was always told that you have to “Learn before you Earn” and now I’m told, and I believe, that “Learning is a lifetime endeavor” —  meaning that you never stop learning.   So, if you believe like me, you can take a look at the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) and WilbertEDU…

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Trump’s first 100 Days: Any effect on funeral service?

By Funeral Director Daily / May 2, 2025 /

    We’ve just lived through the first 100 days of the 2nd Trump presidency.  On the equity market front there has been a lot of predictions and a lot of ups and downs. . . . However, as far as funeral service or Death Care goes, where are we and what can we expect…

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. . . .and the caissons go rolling along

By Funeral Director Daily / April 30, 2025 /

  It will have been over two years since the last horse-drawn caisson carried a United States military member to their grave at Arlington National Cemetery when the horse-drawn caissons are again given that opportunity.   According to this article, “The U.S. Army announced . .  the limited reintegration of the caisson into funeral services…

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The Pope has died. What happens next?

By Funeral Director Daily / April 23, 2025 /

  I awoke early Monday morning to hear of the death of Pope Francis.  Pope Francis, who was 88 years of age at the time of his death, had served in his present position since 2013.   There is no doubt that his death will bring immense publicity to his funeral wishes and the historic…

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Mortuary educator to be honored

By Funeral Director Daily / April 22, 2025 /

  Henry Brooks Adams, a descendent of the Adams political family that spawned two early American presidents once said of teachers, “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops”.   Teachers influences never stop.  And, with all the other departments that enroll many more students it is rare that a college recognizes…

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Trump’s tariffs and caskets

By Funeral Director Daily / April 8, 2025 /

    The tariffs that President Trump put into effect this week seems to be the subject in every room that I step into.  We even talked about it at after church coffee on Sunday.  So, why not try to give some type of opinion on how those tariffs will affect the major manufactured product…

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“Funeral Coverage Act” would provide another resource for funeral costs

By Funeral Director Daily / April 4, 2025 /

  Funeral Director Daily first reported on the “Funeral Coverage Act”, a proposed amendment to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat distributions from health savings accounts (HSA) for funeral expenses of the account beneficiary as qualified distributions last March.  (You can see that article here).  However, the bill never made its complete movement…

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Cremated remains Priceless? These were ransomed for $2 million

By Funeral Director Daily / March 21, 2025 /

  It’s not your father’s Death Care world anymore.  Because if you are currently involved in the Death Care business it seems like everyday something new happens that we haven’t thought about before. . . .  and hadn’t happened in the past.   Recently this story broke about what happened on South Korea’s Jeju Island. …

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Will DOGE eventually affect your revenue?

By Funeral Director Daily / February 20, 2025 /

    It probably does not matter which side of the political spectrum that you straddle in anticipating that what is happening with the new Department of Government Efficienty (DOGE) will change some things as they are related to current government payment systems.  Whether you are for or against the effort by DOGE it does…

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Funeral homes receive rare “Letters of Assurance” from public authorities

By Funeral Director Daily / February 6, 2025 /

    Every day I search out articles about Death Care services to provide me with information on topics of interest in our profession/industry.  One of the things that has been extremely disappointing to this life-long funeral director and funeral home owner is the amount of negative publicity our profession piles on itself because of…

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