cremation jewelry
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,…
Read MoreI’m surprised I missed this article last October when it was originally published by CBS Sports. However, I’m glad that I found it recently while researching another article for Funeral Director Daily. The article touches on sports but is, in my opinion, an article on death care, grief, the human psyche, and the movement of…
Read MoreBack in October 2019 on an episode the television production of Shark Tank, serial investor and billionaire Mark Cuban became invested in a death care company. It was at that time that Cuban invested $600,000 for a 9% share of the “cremation carbon to diamond” company Eterneva. That $600,000 investment gave the company a valuation…
Read MoreIt is not everyday that a new category for the consumer to choose from comes along. A new category has to be so unique that while it may have other ideas to compete with it, it is somewhat all by itself in the product or service it offers to the consumer. What is interesting is…
Read MoreJust yesterday Funeral Director Daily featured an article about staying positive about changes that come within the industry. We wrote about changes in funeral service over the last 150 years and how figuring out how you can enhance your service with those changes is what keeps funeral homes relevant to death care consumers. Today, we…
Read MoreMany of the nicest people I know work in the funeral profession. And, an interesting thing about some of those people is listening to the stories of how they got into the profession. I’ve talked to people who were medics in the army, drove ambulance, or worked as nurses who all saw the the compassion…
Read MoreWhen I first started making funeral arrangements it was in the day of over 90% earth burials in my community. I remember many times when making the removal of the deceased at the nursing home, hospital, or private residence that the next of kin would say to me, “When do we come in to pick…
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