crematory
For those of us in the good ol’ U.S.A. yesterday was the national holiday that celebrated the birth of our nation. The Revolutionary War period is one that I think of when we had good, old fashioned representative democracy without “Big” government. Now, a lot can be said for a bigger, wider, government, but there…
Read MoreA written article and video news story from NBC Connecticut that you can see here tells the story of the death and eventual burial of Ms. Tessa Pascarella. The story is one of the difficulty of having a green burial on land you own and how that can be accomplished. To me, it is also…
Read MoreA Missouri legislative bill with nearly unanimous consent has recently passed out of the Missouri legislature and is awaiting Governor Mike Parson’s decision to sign the bill into law. You can read more about this bill here from KansasCity.com. The bill, according to the article, would allow licensed funeral directors to organize outdoor cremations at…
Read MoreDuring my time as a funeral home owner I had to visit with the county Social Services director, with other funeral home owners, to discuss the procedure and re-imbursements for what we termed “county burials” about every other year. The discussion was always the same. . . .the county had a limited amount of money…
Read MoreThe standard “What business are you in” history lesson is still taught at the nation’s top business schools. That lesson goes way back to when I was in college and contemplates the question of how you define your business may actually make or break the business as the business goes forward in times of technological…
Read MoreMaybe we really are aging a little. It seems like just yesterday that we were talking about the Millennials — that group of beings born between 1981 and 1996 – coming into the workforce and how we were prepared to deal with their age based culture. That group is now aged between the mid 20’s…
Read MoreAlmost two years ago we brought you this story about Service Corporation International purchasing Allnutt Funeral Services in Colorado. Turns out that one of the locations was in Greeley, Colorado and that location recently moved to a new location in west Greeley. Upon that move we came across this story from the Greeley Tribune which…
Read MoreI 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…
Read MoreTwo 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…
Read MoreOver thirty-five years as an owner operator of a community funeral home I made hundreds of business decisions. Some were easy, some were hard, some worked out, some didn’t. The one common denominator is that I did my research and thought that I was doing the right thing to either help the community or gain…
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