Regulations
As America is gearing up for its 2020 elections we hear a lot of campaign rhetoric about the haves and the have nots. One of the statistics that you hear is that of a Federal Reserve survey that contends that 40% of U.S. adults said they couldn’t easily cover an unplanned expense of $400. So,…
Read MoreFuneral Director Daily had kept you informed about what has become known as the “Jedi bill” in the state of Missouri this spring and summer. The bill, proposed by State Senator Jason Holsman, a Democrat from Kansas City, would have allowed for outdoor cremations and supposedly made Missouri a mecca for so-called “Viking or Jedi…
Read MoreToday we bring you two articles about funeral homes and real estate that have been in the news lately. We have written many times about zoning issues for funeral homes, crematories, and cemeteries, but today one of the articles actually tells of a funeral home that residents do not want to see demolished and the…
Read MoreFrom 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. …
Read MoreFor 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…
Read MoreToday, 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…
Read MoreAustralian 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…
Read MoreDuring 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…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreTo 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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