Regulations
Not long ago the Aretha Franklin funeral was held in Detroit. In an article and news clip that you can read and see here from WXYZ of Detroit, many former clients of the Swanson Funeral Home are wondering why O’Neill Swanson II gave interviews to CNN, Entertainment Tonight, and even to Action 7 News about…
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…
We 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…
We’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…
Panhandle.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,…
Last 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…
In 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…
There 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…
Adams 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…
