Regulations
It’s not for me. . . .but neither is skydiving. I’m talking about Natural Organic Reduction (NOR) or what some lay people call “human composting”. NOR is a legal form of human disposition in at least 14 states by my count. The process used for human remains disposition was first legalized in the…
Nobody really likes taxes. . . .But, then again, nobody wants their loved ones forgotten either. If you are in the Death Care business you know of the costs to operate cemeteries. And, since cremation has been growing resulting in a loss of full-body cemetery lots being sold, many small cemeteries without the…
Over the last month or so we have followed a growing discontent in Fresno County, California, and specifically an area along the San Joaquin River about the process of Natural Organic Reduction (NOR) remains being spread on public land. As you can read in this recent article from the Desert Sun “Fresno County officials…
According to this recent article authored by Alex Chan of the Harvard Business School and Kurt Sweat of The School of Public Health at the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center “In the U.S., every 90 minutes a patient awaiting an organ transplant dies, while over 100,000 patients continue costly treatments such as dialysis,…
Energy transfer is not a new science. Yet I was surprised when I read this recent article published in The World – Public Radio that was titled “How cremations are helping to heat homes in Denmark“. One of my first thoughts is always about entrepreneurship and the idea that funeral homes with…
I spent six years as a board member of the University of Minnesota, which comprises the 8th largest campus by enrollment in the United States counting over 55,000 students. During that tenure I spent two of those years as Chair of the Finance Committee and two years as Chair of the Mission Committee which deals…
Who’s writing the reviews? That’s one question that businesses, including funeral homes and cemeteries, don’t want potential consumers asking. I recently read an article in Funeral Service Times “that indicate(s) 89% of people refer to product or service reviews before making purchases.” If true, that is an incredibly high proportion of shoppers and…
There is no doubt that when one thinks of the idea of an embalmer around the time of the Civil War (1860’s in the U.S.) or one known as an “undertaker” in the same time period that the profession has changed greatly. And, the business of what a funeral director does or what a…
Today’s edition of Funeral Director Daily will be a little different and I hope you enjoy it. It’s not about the business of Death Care, although, you might find reason to believe that “Therapy Dogs”, that are now making their way into the business of the funeral home, have merit after reading today’s edition.…
I was aware as you can read here, that in 2025 the United States Environmental Association (EPA) published the findings of their Risk Evaluation of Formaldehyde. After years of evaluation and input the EPA ruled “that the use of formaldehyde for embalming is exempt from regulations under the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA)”. …
