Regulations
Today, 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…
Australian 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…
During 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…
In 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…
To 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…
A news report and video story from NBC 15 that you can see here came out of came out of Alabama late last week. The report, out of the town of Prichard in Mobile County, suggests that an illegal cemetery that was in use has allowed caskets to be dug up and reused. The report…
Today as all American’s are filing their federal income taxes, and I’m no exception, I’m saving a little time and just giving you a couple of articles pertaining to the funeral industry that I found on the wire services. The first article that you can find here is an article from Jamaica where established funeral…
It was a different day and age 30-40 years ago when funeral directors and those in the funeral profession were sought out for their opinions on anything death care related. Opinions were given and communities and consumers accepted the educated opinions of the death care professionals. It may be that funeral directors and others in…
