Regulations
Just when you think you have seen it all – and I should know better after over 35 years in the business – you see something that you just look at and say, “How can that work”. I came across an interesting article out of New Zealand from Stuff.com.nz today that tells the story of…
So, I’m the odd type of guy that peruses obituaries and hones in on one or two a day to read of people I have never met. I find it very fascinating and it is always interesting to see of the different and unique lives that have been lived. Certainly, as a funeral director, it…
I can remember back in the late 1970s and into the early 1980s when itemized pricing was new and being forced upon funeral homes nationwide as part of a consumer protection Federal Trade Commission rulings on funeral service in the USA. In my opinion, in the long run, the FTC rulings on itemization actually not…
The Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science (CCMS) announced a partnership with Terra State Community College of Fremont, Ohio, where the two institutions will work together to make it more convenient for students to eventually earn their bachelor’s degree from CCMS. The agreement, according to an article in The Freemont News-Messenger, calls for prospective CCMS students to…
The Carl J. Mowell & Son Funeral Home of Fayetteville, Georgia, has been granted a Special Exception from the Fayettevill City council to allow for a crematory on the site of their existing Fayettville funeral home. According to an article in the Fayette County News, a Special Exception was needed because under current zoning laws a…
Owners of the Heafey Hoffmann Dworak & Cutler Funeral Home in Omaha, Nebraska, and their insurers, Cincinnati Casualty Company and Cincinnati Indemnity Company filed a lawsuit on March 20, 2017, against Mathews International concerning a fire at the mortuary that happened over a year ago. The Omaha World Herald has reported that on January 26,…
It seems like the old story about just when you thought you had heard it all in the realm of discounts , a new twist enters the market that your funeral home now has to compete with. According to an article in The Business Times a Japanese funeral home is offering discounts on their inevitable…
Every now and then we will touch on a subject that has no correct answer but reasoning for both sides of the issue. Our goal in the “Controversial Topic” forum will be to provoke thought and discussion among our readers and their co-workers. Today we touch on the topic of “Should we allow freedom of…
