alkaline hydrolysis

Washington State legislature to consider Alkaline hydrolysis, recomposition

By Funeral Director Daily / November 28, 2018 /

An article from the Seattle Times that you can read here mentions that the State of Washington currently has only two lawful means of disposition of human remains — burial and cremation.  State Senator Jamie Pedersen intends to ask the legislature to double the number of ways by introducing a bill in the next session…

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A couple of updates. . . .

By Funeral Director Daily / November 7, 2018 /

Here is a couple of articles that we found concerning items that have been in the news lately. . . An article that you can find here concerns a lawsuit filed in Wayne County, Michigan last July that a judge has now paved the way for the suit to be certified as a a Class…

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Signs of the Time

By Funeral Director Daily / September 20, 2018 /

Earlier today we released an article, “Is Now the Time”.  It dealt with the growing cost of waiting on projects that you might be planning for your funeral home or cemetery. Since that article came out we have noticed two articles that were recently published that somewhat dealt with trends in the death care industry…

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Utah Becomes 14th State to Approve Alkaline Hydrolysis

By Funeral Director Daily / May 31, 2018 /

A recent article from The Universe, a Brigham Young University publication, which you can read here starts off with the following quote, “The baby boomers have changed every industry in their lives, so they’ll change this one as well.”  That was said by Utah funeral director and founder of the Nelson Family Mortuary Lance Nelson.…

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What We See for 2018

By Funeral Director Daily / January 4, 2018 /

It is always fun when the ball drops in Times Square at the rise of the New Year to think about how the future will be affecting you.  Thinking about what will happen in the death care industry in North America is not something that comes to everybody’s mind, but if you make your livelihood…

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Is the Future of Death Care Same Old. . Same Old??

By Funeral Director Daily / December 20, 2017 /

It seems really ironic just to make the headline statement for someone who has seen the death care/funeral industry change so fast over my 35 year career.  As I’ve said before, within a generation America has changed from a burial disposition society to one of a cremation disposition society.  So, we have been anything but…

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Alkaline Hydrolysis Hits the New York Times

By Funeral Director Daily / October 23, 2017 /

The New York Times, for all the flack it gets for its political stances, is still a newspaper that reports on what is happening in America.  When trends are mentioned in the New York Times, they tend to not stay trends much longer – and in many instances morph into the fabric of what is…

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Monday Morning “Snip-Its”

By Funeral Director Daily / October 2, 2017 /

This Monday morning we will bring you some updates on issues/articles that we have mentioned in the past that are back in the news.  We’ve found out that the City of Irvine, California, is one step closer to its first ever veterans cemetery, that California Governor Jerry Brown’s signature is the only remaining necessity in…

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Monday Morning “Snip-Its”

By Funeral Director Daily / September 11, 2017 /

It’s Monday morning again and as usual we have been busy seeing what happened in the death care industry news over the weekend.  Today we have four articles that we think are very interesting ranging from stolen human remains to a deadline coming up for a California Senate vote on legalizing alkaline hydrolysis to what…

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