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Information for funeral professionals and suppliers

By Funeral Director Daily / April 8, 2020 /

Last week Funeral Director Daily realized it could make a difference getting out information, mostly pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic and our profession.  Over a few days we attempted to aggregate information that could be useful to people in the death care professions and use our subscription base to blast that information out. Thanks to…

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Today’s information for funeral professionals

By Funeral Director Daily / April 3, 2020 /

Again, during this COVID-19 pandemic we want to thank our readers for continuing to disseminate information that is helpful to the death care profession.  Here are a couple of items that we have for you today. Webinar: How to continue to serve client families remotely.  This webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, April 8 at 2…

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Important updates for funeral professionals

By Funeral Director Daily / April 2, 2020 /

Thanks to all of our readers who have passed on information that they have found in our daily updates concerning death care professionals and news they need to know about the COVID-19 situation we are reaching more and more people who can use the information.  When you see an update that you believe can be…

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Information updates for death care professionals

By Funeral Director Daily / April 1, 2020 /

We just want to give a huge thank you to our subscription list across the world.  Each day during the COVID-19 situation we are trying to get out information, that may be pertinent to you in your own situation, about the pandemic as it relates to the death care profession.  We are so thankful that…

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Massachusetts makes some rule changes for public health sake

By Funeral Director Daily / March 31, 2020 /

The state of Massachusetts has made some changes in practice that affect the work of funeral directors in the state.  The state mentions that these changes are for public health sake and will be effective until rescinded or until Gov. Charlie Baker terminates the state of emergency he declared on March 10. You can read…

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Potential mandatory cremation causing stir in Great Britain coronavirus bill

By Funeral Director Daily / March 24, 2020 /

According to this article from ARY News, the Great Britain drafted emergency Coronavirus Bill 2019-21, it is said to allow designated local authorities to disregard section 46(3) of the Public Health Act of 1984.  That section is designed to prevent a public authority to be able to cremate a body against the wishes of the…

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Children’s Funeral Fund of England going strong into first year

By Funeral Director Daily / March 13, 2020 /

This press release tells of the acceptance and usage of the Children’s Funeral Fund of England (CFF) which came into force in that country on July 23, 2019.  So, the statistics documented in this report take into consideration a time period of about 8 months. The CFF was established to “provide bereaved parents with valuable…

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COVID – 19: United Kingdom officials told to create extra mortuary space

By Funeral Director Daily / March 10, 2020 /

This article from the United Kingdom’s Independent deals with what may be realities during the widespread exposure of the coronavirus.  A direct quote: “Ministers have warned a widespread outbreak of cononavirus in the UK could lead to an increase in deaths among the vulnerable and elderly, as officials were instructed t0 find extra mortuary spaces.”…

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Funeral director employment. . . where are we at? What can we do?

By Funeral Director Daily / March 9, 2020 /

A couple of things have happened in the last week that made me wonder about the state of employment in the funeral director world.  In the past week I just happened to meet a gentleman, whom I’m guessing is in his early 30’s.  Sitting next to this gentleman at a coffee shop I learned that…

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Human composting bill introduced in New York

By Funeral Director Daily / March 5, 2020 /

Last year the state of Washington became the first in the nation to legalize human disposition by human composting or recomposition, as it has been termed.  That law allows the process starting on May 1 of this year. Since that news broke we know of efforts in Colorado to move recomposition forward.  We also know…

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