cremation

Encouragement. . . You can all do it

By Funeral Director Daily / April 12, 2019 /

I left the world of full time everyday work about 5 years ago.  With that and my two boys growing up and somewhat out of the house as a college grad in the working world and the last one in college, I have found more time during the day to do things that I really…

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StoneMor Partners reports year end 2018

By Funeral Director Daily / April 10, 2019 /

In a news release from April 2 that you can read here, StoneMor Partners reported their financial results for the 4th Quarter of 2018 as well as the full year 2018.  As you may know, the company has been filing delayed SEC reports but this report puts them pretty much on schedule. Here are some…

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CEO Andrew Clark on Park Lawn Corporation Results

By Funeral Director Daily / April 8, 2019 /

Editor’s Note:  I am out of the office this week.  Because of that FDD will not be publishing an article on Tuesday or Thursday.  I hope you enjoy the articles for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I have scheduled. #                                # …

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Contrarian investor John Snyder opines on StoneMor Partners

By Funeral Director Daily / April 3, 2019 /

Value investor and self-described contrarian investor John Snyder wrote an article for Seeking Alpha that you can read here entitled, “Why I’m buying StoneMor”.  We will leave the facts at that and I will give my opinion on the piece below. Funeral Director Daily take:  This is an article that will cause all experienced funeral…

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A niche market. . . .to pursue or avoid?

By Funeral Director Daily / March 27, 2019 /

I read an interesting article the other day from the Washington Post that you can read here about the death of a 77-year old man in Washington state.  It is an interesting article about a family’s decision to skip the funeral home and bring the man back to his home for three days of visitation…

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Keeping the pump primed for acquisitions

By Funeral Director Daily / March 19, 2019 /

For the last half century the funeral industry has seen tremendous growth of multiple firm businesses getting that growth not necessarily thru growing sales, but by acquisition of other firms.  Firms that wanted to grow by acquisition  had to be ready when a firm from down the road came up for sale, which in many…

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$12 Million awarded in lost cremation case

By Funeral Director Daily / March 15, 2019 /

It was announced earlier this week that an Alabama jury has awarded damages of $12 million to a family whose cremated remains were lost by a funeral home.  You can read coverage from Alabama.com here and the Associated Press here. [wpforms id=”436″ title=”true” description=”true”]  

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Radioactivity in the Retort

By Funeral Director Daily / February 28, 2019 /

Two articles were recently written about an article that was published by Dr. Nathan Yu and colleagues in the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA) on February 26.  The JAMA article was a case report dealing with a 69 year old man with pancreatic cancer who was treated with nuclear medicine at an Arizona hospital in…

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Own the Message

By Funeral Director Daily / February 1, 2019 /

I happened to see this article from the Wise County Messenger the other day.  There is nothing wrong with the article and sometimes news gets out like this.  However, it reminded me that when you are in business, and especially personal service businesses like the death care industry, you want to really “own” the message that…

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“Hands On” Cremation

By Funeral Director Daily / January 14, 2019 /

I recently read an article from the Post Register of Idaho Falls, Idaho that pertained to the Wood Funeral Home of Idaho Falls and Ammon, Idaho building a 4,000 square foot facility to cater to cremation choice families.  You can read the article here.  My original intent after looking at the article very briefly was…

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