Regulations
I read two articles in the past couple of days, that, while not pertaining to funeral homes and funeral home owners directly, do, in my opinion need to be known about by funeral directors. It is my opinion that funeral home business owners and their staffs are the experts on death care in their communities…
Read MoreWe have an update on First Family Funeral Home of Spartanburg, South Carolina. If you remember, we have followed the case of that funeral home since it was discovered that they held a body of a deceased woman for almost three years after the family had believed that the body had been cremated. According to…
Read MoreWe’ve kept you up to date on the happenings with the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, Colorado and its owner Megan Hess since last winter when the company was alleged to have sold body parts without permission from bodies entrusted to it for funeral or memorial services. According to an article you can read…
Read MorePanhandle.com reports on an update of what is happening with the Panama City, Florida case of 2016 which resulted in the closure of the Brock’s Hometown Funeral Home in that city. The update includes legal action that has taken place against the owners and reports on a scheduled jury trial scheduled for October 1, 2018,…
Read MoreLast April Mount Ida College decided to close its doors for good. Most students from the college were able to find continuing studies when the University of Massachusetts – Amherst acquired the campus. However, that school does not have a mortuary science program and those students from Mount Ida College with partially completed degrees, in…
Read MoreIn looking for material for a column today I came across articles on funeral home/cemetery zoning issues. What peaked my interest was the idea that death care businesses could be on differing sides of zoning debates. I find that somewhat interesting. The first article that you can read here is an issue that we have…
Read MoreThere is sometimes a reckoning point when an issue in an industry becomes so clear that everybody recognizes it and a high profile newspaper investigates it to make the public aware. That happened this weekend when the Denver Post published this article on what has been going on in Colorado in the last year. We…
Read MoreAdams County Coroner James Keller has came up with a controversial policy concerning the payments for indigent services in his county. You can read about the situation from NBCChicago.com here. The story relates how Coroner Keller has the family sign over the rights for the deceased to his office. He then cremates the deceased and…
Read MoreAn article in the Daily Times of Maryville, Tennessee, that you can read here announced that the Smith Funeral and Cremation Service has successfully applied for, and been approved, to add a crematory in their existing funeral home inside the city limits of Maryville. Owners Jason Chambers and C. Lynn Gibson indicated that the cremation…
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