This recent television interview and article about Illinois resident Meagen Lee should find a place in your “Contacts” so that you can point clientele survivors to a way that they can have “One-of-a-Kind” cremation art pieces created should they wish.

 

Lee, who calls herself a DNA artist, has created jewelry, flowers, lighters, pocketknives, and more from cremation remains according to the article.  The video newscasts about her products shows some of the creative things that she has made through her company.  You can also see some of her unique products through her website link below.

 

One client mentions in the article that she had several keepsakes made from her husband’s remains including a globe with a yellow rose and hummingbird inside with the remains.

 

Lee formerly owned a floral shop and started on the “DNA artist” journey when someone asked her to make a personalized gift to remember a loved one lost to cancer.  That was eight years ago and Lee estimates that she has completed over 1,000 unique orders since that time, including for clients as far away as Poland and Greece.

 

You can find out more about Meagen Lee’s DNA artistry from her website here.

 

Funeral Director Daily take:  Through my time spent as a funeral director one of the things that I have noticed is the ever-evolving ways of remembering loved ones.  I’ve also noticed that remembering through a monument at a cemetery, while still popular, has dropped off and remembering through an “ever-present close proximity” with a deceased loved one is continuing to grow in popularity.

 

I think that is where the ever-increasing sales of fingerprint jewelry, cremation remains jewelry, solidified remains such as Parting Stone, and more come into play.  As funeral homes lose sales of caskets, vaults, urns, and the like to new client wishes it is probably imperative that new products can be offered and fill some of the financial margin void of losing those other products. . . . That’s where offering these new products comes in.

 

And, that’s where knowing about and offering these products in your funeral home becomes a necessity.  If you have a vast knowledge of what’s available and where it can be obtained your funeral home stands some chance in creating a revenue stream with your clientele for these products. . . . Putting your head in the sand and not offering these products does no good for you in a business sense and it is not very customer-centric on a service basis either. . . Done correctly, helping your clientele locate these products and offering them can be a win-win end-game for both the company and the customer.

 

More news from the world of Death Care:

• The benefits of pre-planning a funeral service.  TV talk show – 5 minutes with Kevin Schoedinger.  NBC- 4 Columubs (OH)
• Mortuary abuse inquiry making “good progress” as new appeal launched.  Bracknell News (Great Britain)
• Wauwatosa Cemetery and Chapel complex listed on National Register of Historic Places.  Print article.  CBS-Channel 58 – Milwaukee (WI)
• British Columbia city ponders allowing natural burials in cemetery.  Victoria News (Canada)
• The exact cost of a funeral.  What to expect.  The Vigour Times (Great Britain)

 

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