Regulations

100 years of creating monuments, the Supreme Court, and more on Sunset Mesa

By Funeral Director Daily / July 9, 2019 /

From time to time we like to feature businesses who for some reason or other have an interesting story to tell.  Today, we bring you the story of the Shafer Monument Company of Mitchell, South Dakota. As we move into the 2nd half of 2019 the Shafer family is celebrating their 100th year of business. …

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The funeral industry and the government

By Funeral Director Daily / July 5, 2019 /

For those of us in the good ol’ U.S.A. yesterday was the national holiday that celebrated the birth of our nation.  The Revolutionary War period is one that I think of when we had good, old fashioned representative democracy without “Big” government.  Now, a lot can be said for a bigger, wider, government, but there…

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Bereaved English parents to get financial support

By Funeral Director Daily / July 1, 2019 /

Today, July 1, 2019, plans will be finalized in Parliament that will deliver the government’s promise of providing financial support to English families who have lost a child to death.  “The Children’s Funeral Fund for England will be established to ensure no parent will have to pay for their child’s burial or cremation” states the…

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“Charging like raging bulls”

By Funeral Director Daily / June 10, 2019 /

Australian funeral customer Jane Sinclair has created a little bit of a stir down under by calling for more transparency in the way that client families are charged for funeral services.  Ms. Sinclair, according to this article from ABC Australia, complained months after the services were performed for her mother.  She is quoted as saying…

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Funeral Poverty. . . .are you aware of it?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 4, 2019 /

During my time as a funeral home owner I had to visit with the county Social Services director, with other funeral home owners, to discuss the procedure and re-imbursements for what we termed “county burials” about every other year.  The discussion was always the same. . . .the county had a limited amount of money…

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United Kingdom to regulate funeral plans

By Funeral Director Daily / June 3, 2019 /

In the United Kingdom, sales of pre-need funeral plans has soared nearly 200% in the last dozen years.  Driven by the increasing competition between the largest players in that country’s death care industry, Dignity Plc, and Co-op Funeralcare, the government has determined that it must “crack-down” on high-pressure and misleading tactics in the sale of…

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Friday’s Random Releases

By Funeral Director Daily / May 31, 2019 /

To cap off the week and the month of May we are forwarding to you three separate articles from the world of death care.  Click on the links of these articles to learn more. State of Washington and its Death Certificate Problem- An editorial from the Spokane Spokesman-Review that you can read here goes into…

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Accusations abound in Alabama

By Funeral Director Daily / May 20, 2019 /

A news report and video story from NBC 15  that you can see here came out of came out of Alabama late last week.  The report, out of the town of Prichard in Mobile County, suggests that an illegal cemetery that was in use has allowed caskets to be dug up and reused. The report…

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Facebook group challenges StoneMor on cemetery operations

By Funeral Director Daily / April 24, 2019 /

A television news report and story from WSET out of Lynchburg, West Virginia, can be seen here and tells of a Facebook group that has garnered more than 600 followers that says that there is a problem with the way StoneMor Partners operates their cemeteries. Melissa Cash, whose father is buried at the Fort Hill…

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Are you prepared to enter a new era of funeral service

By Funeral Director Daily / April 23, 2019 /

Options are great for the consumer.  And, according to this article from Governing.com, those people that live in the state of Washington are about to have another option for death care. Last Friday the House and Senate in that state approved a bill that will allow for “Natural Organic Reduction” of human remains, or a…

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