Over the last 30 days our most read articles have come from a variety of issues in death care. . . acquisitions, the growth of urban funeral homes, casket sales data, funeral poverty and the advent of non-profit funeral homes, and a look at what may be coming next for death care in North America.  Below, we offer links to these articles as well as some others.

The last 30 days have also been consequential for Funeral Director Daily.  For the first time since we began publication in 2017 our “Rolling 30-day Page Views” consistently hit over 12,000. . . .with a high of about 12,700.  Back about 18 months ago that consistent “Page View” number stood at 8,843. . . .so we’ve increased about 44% in that period of time.

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We’ve also improved the number of people who receive our daily blog posts.  Today that number stands at 2,563 as compared to a number of 14 months ago that stood at 1,858.  That’s a 38% improvement.

Here’s our Top Read articles from January 15 to February 15, 2022:

1. Security National makes two January acquisitions.
2. A contemporary funeral home for Urban Life.
3. Batesville casket sales, margins both drop.
4. Cremation provider launched “Pay what you want” price for January.
5. The Next British invasion.

And, the following are our Top Read articles by our Facebook audience, which we believe skews slightly more female than our readership in general:

1. The case for raising full-service charges.
2. Security National makes two January acquisitions.
3. Batesville casket sales, margins both drop.
4. A contemporary funeral home for Urban Life.
5. Messenger acquires Bass-Mollett Publishers.

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