crematory
In today’s afternoon snapshot we have lots of news from around the world. In the United States, among other stories, we found a news investigation on StoneMor and some of their cemetery properties in West Virginia. We found an article and link to a webinar being produced by an Illinois family funeral home, and we…
Read MoreLast November we brought you this article which told of a trend setting funeral establishment in London created by restauranteer Oliver Peyton, branded “Exit Here”. It comes from an idea that Peyton had to provide more choice and fashion to death care arrangements in a rapidly increasing secularized Great Britain. Today we bring you another…
Read MoreMany of you who work in the death care business may know Jim Price. Jim comes from a funeral service family and has worked full-time in the death care space for almost 50 years. I met Jim about 30 years ago at a funeral profession golf event and have seen him annually for almost each…
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 Moreby Lucille Rosetti, TheBereaved.org Moving on after death is never easy. As a funeral home director, you may be all too familiar with how difficult it is for loved ones and family members to escape the emotional effects of grief. Many of your clients may mention moving to a different home as a way…
Read MoreAs we move into the weekend I thought I would just leave you with an article to read about another – what some might say is innovative – way to memorialize a loved one. I wrote earlier this week that I am one who would opt to bury a loved one’s cremated remains in a…
Read MoreIt seems that we are announcing acquisitions by the Foundation Partners Group in rapid succession. Today we bring you the news that last week it was announced that Foundation Partners Group announced in this press release that they had purchased two funeral/cremation companies on the east, or Space Coast, side of Florida. The two firms…
Read MoreWe will start off our December writings going to the subject of cremation. Over the long holiday weekend we noticed a couple of articles that we found interesting. We will bring you some information from Greece and a couple of cremation products that have their origin in Japan. As you know, from this article that…
Read MoreMatthews International reported their 4th Quarter and 2019 fiscal Year Sales last week. The Pittsburgh based public company includes in its portfolio, as one of three business segments, a Memorialization unit that includes Matthews Cremation, Aurora Casket, and Star Granite which are of interest to the death care industry. You can access the Matthews International…
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