death care
I ran across this article the other day that is entitled, “Financing a Funeral: Crowdfunding, insurance, credit cards, loans, and payment plans”. The article comes from a publication called “The Enlightened Mindset” and appears directed towards the consumer. I don’t think it is a “bad” article, but you can also tell it is not…
Read MorePeople from not only the United States, but from almost every country around the world have seen a whip-saw of economic conditions since the pandemic year of 2020. It was a pandemic economy that saw the “stay at home” commerce of technology and furniture or home improvement sales grow by leaps and bounds and,…
Read MoreAccording to this article from Yahoo, Great Britain’s largest public death care company, Dignity plc, has accepted a buyout offer from a consortium that includes its largest shareholder group and one of the country’s wealthiest and well-known entrepreneurs. The shareholder group is Phoenix Asset Management Partners (PAMP) which, in another interesting twist, is managed…
Read MoreBack in junior high school when I took aptitude tests for future employment ideas the results for my tests were always that I should go into “Marketing”. I pursued mortuary science but I do believe that my “marketing aptitude” was helpful in building our funeral home business. And, while “marketing” can be about…
Read MoreWe learned last week that Albuquerque, New Mexico, based French Funerals & Cremation was sold. The company, founded in 1907 by Chester French, and operated by descendants for the past 115 years, elected to keep the company private and sold to long-time French company executives Tom Antram and Alice Brousseau according to this article…
Read MoreI’ll be the first to tell you that I’m certainly not an expert on the subject of faith preference and burial customs because the community that I served was, I’m guessing, at least 95% Christian of those that practiced faith. However, I know some of the history since as before Vatican II in…
Read MoreI’ve said it before and truly believe it. Death care is changing and will continue to change. No longer are traditional funeral homes the only option for those who need death care services. Have you heard of the “Be a Tree Cremation Service” of Denver, Colorado, yet? Neither had I until this past…
Read MoreChildren survivors: 12 year-old leads rally for “Bereavement classes” to be taught in public schools
My younger brother, Jim, and I learned about the death of a parent the hard way. I was a 19 year-old Freshman in college and he was a 15 year-old Sophomore in high school when our father died of a sudden heart attack while servicing a funeral. Immy Leith learned the hard way,…
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