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Monday Morning “Snip-Its”

By Funeral Director Daily / October 2, 2017 /

This Monday morning we will bring you some updates on issues/articles that we have mentioned in the past that are back in the news. We’ve found out that the City of Irvine, California, is one step closer to its first ever veterans cemetery, that California Governor Jerry Brown’s signature is the only remaining necessity in…

Opioid Deaths Lead to High Mortuary Transportation Costs in West Virginia

By Funeral Director Daily / September 29, 2017 /

The State of West Virginia Health and Human Resources Department requires all suspected drug overdose deaths to be transported to the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office at the state morgue, autopsied, and a toxicology report must be made in an attempt to pinpoint what exactly caused the death. After this is done the State then has…

West Virginia: Audit Says State Should End Funeral Service Board

By Funeral Director Daily / September 19, 2017 /

Members of the West Virginia’s Performance Evaluation and Research Division (PERD) were called on to evaluate why funeral director Chad Harding was allowed to maintain his license while being investigated and was found to have violated the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act and the West Virginia Preneed Funeral Contracts Act along with committing…

Monday Morning “Snip-Its”

By Funeral Director Daily / September 18, 2017 /

Funeral Director Daily’s Monday morning round-up of death care related items we discovered over the weekend includes a wide variety of topics again this week. We’ve got information on where to find articles on how funeral homes in Miami are coping with the loss of power after Hurricane Irma, an article that has been published…

Monday Morning “Snip-Its”

By Funeral Director Daily / September 11, 2017 /

It’s Monday morning again and as usual we have been busy seeing what happened in the death care industry news over the weekend. Today we have four articles that we think are very interesting ranging from stolen human remains to a deadline coming up for a California Senate vote on legalizing alkaline hydrolysis to what…

Wisconsin Upholds Ban on Funeral/Cemetery Combos

By Funeral Director Daily / August 30, 2017 /

Just yesterday the Wisconsin 2nd District Court of Appeals ruled on a lawsuit that would have allowed dual ownership of cemeteries and funeral homes in Wisconsin. They upheld the ruling that bans the practice – which is allowed in many states – and leaves the plaintiffs next option to seek Wisconsin Supreme Court judication. You…

Mortuary Schools Primer

By Funeral Director Daily / August 29, 2017 /

On Sunday my wife and I dropped off our youngest child for his Freshman year of college at a school about 100 miles away from us. Those of you that have been through this procedure know what it is like. He is not entering the death care profession and I am okay with that. There…

Monday Morning “Snip-Its”

By Funeral Director Daily / August 28, 2017 /

As has become our custom we use Monday mornings for an overview of some of the stories we have seen concerning the death care industry over the last week. Today is no exception and we have linkable articles on topics ranging from a funeral home that was closed down to a Japanese company’s idea to…

Monday Morning “Snip-Its”

By Funeral Director Daily / August 14, 2017 /

Here is some news from around the world of funeral service in the last week. KCBS of the San Francisco Bay Area reports that the Mare Island Naval Cemetery has been declared a “National Disgrace” by a Navy captain. The 160 year old cemetery, founded in 1854, is not a part of the VA system…

Guarding Your Firm’s Image

By Funeral Director Daily / August 11, 2017 /

I came across a couple of articles this week that once again reminded me that not everyone in the funeral industry is above board when it comes to serving client families or doing the right thing when others are not watching. First of all, the Arkansas attorney general reached an agreement with Arkansas Funeral Care…