death care
During 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 MoreIt was announced on Friday in this article that the Shaw & Sons Funeral Home of Yakima Valley, Washington, was under the ownership of Jamin and Kara Mohler. According to Jamin Mohler who stated, “Shaw & Sons has once again become a family-owned, local, neighbor-serving-neighbor funeral home”. The funeral home was started in 1899, and…
Read MoreIn the United Kingdom, sales of pre-need funeral plans has soared nearly 200% in the last dozen years. Driven by the increasing competition between the largest players in that country’s death care industry, Dignity Plc, and Co-op Funeralcare, the government has determined that it must “crack-down” on high-pressure and misleading tactics in the sale of…
Read MoreSecurity National Financial Corporation, the Utah based financial and death care company showed a total company decrease in revenue for the 2019 1st Quarter as compared to the same quarter in 2018. You can see their 1st Quarter report here which was made public on May 16. However, even as the company experienced a decrease…
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 More2019 is supposed to be the year that the Federal Trade Commission reviews the Funeral Rule. I don’t know if that will happen, but critics of the death care industry are asking for the reviewal and with it, price transparency required as a web or app based service. This article that I read from the…
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 MoreWe informed you a couple of weeks ago that the State of Washington’s House and Senate had approved both the ability for final disposition not only for alkaline hydrolysis, but for “recomposition” or what some refer to as “human composting. Just the other day we found this article in the Australian publication, The New Daily,…
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