cemetery
Editor’s Note: For as yet unknown technical reasons, our daily article was not sent out earlier this morning. Sorry. . here it is. All things are created equal. . . . until they’re not. In the death care business I’m not so sure all of the calls we get at our funeral homes are created…
Read More
I recently read this article where Bank of America has profiled 14 future “moonshot” technologies that they believe could offer vast wealth to those who are lucky enough to invest in them. In reading that article, I realized that, to a certain extent we have, maybe not moonshot technologies, but at least planetary technologies in…
Read More
This recent article from Pasadena Weekly made note that Better Place Forests has added a property at Lake Arrowhead, about 90 minutes from Los Angeles. For Better Place Forests it is their 10th announced location with five of those being in California. A fairly new entity into permanent memorialization, Better Place Forests is described in…
Read More
We recently learned, in this video story and print article from News 6 Orlando, that a group of about 30 churches and six funeral homes in Marion County, Florida, have decided not to hold indoor services for the remainder of 2021. According to the article, “After hearing that many funeral homes . . . . …
Read More
Arlington National Cemetery, our nation’s national cemetery, is somewhat between a rock and a hard place as they plan the future of the cemetery. I don’t think anybody disagrees with Karen Durham-Aguilera, the cemetery’s executive director when she states, “We want to be open. We want to have that opportunity for that 5-year-old who’s going…
Read More
The United States released its annual report by the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare Programs earlier this week. In that report, which you can see a summarized article here, we get an idea of what the federal government thinks about death rates going forward. The report concludes, as to the national death rate,…
Read More
Do you ever read obituaries of strangers? I do and I’ve learned a lot from them. You might find this strange, but I’ve learned many life lessons from reading obituaries of strangers. One thing I know is that I’ve learned to be a better father. For the past several years I’ve picked out a couple…
Read More
It’s been kind of a funny week at Funeral Director Daily. Each day of the week I look for articles pertaining to the death care industry to offer up to my readers. Most deal with funeral business, new products, new ideas, financial results, cemeteries, and the preneed industry. This week, it seems like I’ve done…
Read More
Today is August 17. Today should be my younger brother, Jim’s, 60th birthday. Instead I’ll spend part of the day where he rests at Kinkead Cemetery talking to him, telling him how much I loved him, and how sad it was that I didn’t get to see him grow old. You see, Jim, took his…
Read More
I’m a big proponent of memorialization of our past history. In the world of death care I take that to mean that I am a proponent of cemeteries with some type of memorial to those whose body or cremated remains lie within. I’m of the opinion that every human being deserves that respect of being…
Read More
