cremation
I get plenty of commentary and critiques on my opinions in Funeral Director Daily. Most of them are justified and most of them are constructive in their suggestions. Funeral Director Daily recently did an article on marketing and social media — you can find that article here. Shortly after publishing that article I received an…
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Many times discretion is warranted. I know that there were lots of times in my life as a funeral director where I didn’t volunteer information. It could have been with an accident victim or some other issue where I thought that the next of kin knowing the answer was worse than them not knowing and…
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Only about a week ago Funeral Director Daily brought to our readers some new promotional spots by direct cremation start-up Solace. We told you that we liked them and then linked them for you to view. You can see that article here. We also told you in that article that we have been big fans…
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For the 33 years that I operated my own funeral home I was a lot like a lot of you out there. I was so busy dealing with families, making sure that funerals were done correctly, and, just basically, operating the business on a day to day basis that long -range planning sometimes went by…
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There’s a lot of talk in our industry today about the disposition movements such as recomposition (human composting), alkaline hydrolysis (water cremation), and green burials. All of those fairly new ideas for human dispositions argue that they are more environmentally friendly than casketed earth burial and cremation. While that is more than likely true. .…
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The pyramids in Egypt were built to give permanent memorialization to the rulers of that land. The tomb of the 13th Disciple to Christ, Matthias, can be seen to give credence to his life. George Washington, known by many as the Father of America has a burial site at his Mount Vernon home. However, there…
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Where a person dies does have an effect on funeral home operations. One simple effect you can see is that of two person removal teams to homes rather than a one-person removal being done at a hospital or nursing home where there is always facility staff help if needed. This recent article from the Associated…
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Service Corporation International reported both their 4th Quarter 2020 and Full Year 2020 reports last week. Among the interesting items that you can find in the report, that can be accessed here, is that their total number of services increased from 319,616 in 2019 to 364,312 in 2020. . . .that’s an increase of 13.98%.…
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Last week Foundation Partners Group issued a press release through Cision PR Newswire that you can read here. The release dealt with some of the company’s ten year history in that it has grown into a company with nearly 160 locations serving over 75,000 families annually. Another thing that the release shouted was that Foundation…
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For those of you readers who are not funeral directors, have you attended a funeral in the last six months? I haven’t. . . . and I cannot remember when the last time I attended a funeral was. Truth be told, since I have left full-time funeral directing and management, I have chosen to go…
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