death care
Today marks the beginning of the Christmas week. For many of us that means that we will be joyously reunited with family members we don’t get to see very often. However, for almost three million American families it will be the first Christmas with a loved one missing from the celebration. For them, it will…
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I live in flyover country so I don’t pretend to be an expert on the customs and traditions of New York’s funeral and cemetery business. However, I’ve been in the death care business my entire life and never had heard of the business set-up of New York’s Pinelawn Cemetery. I read a recent article…
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I happened to look at the cash sitting in my Money Market account the other day and noticed I was receiving more interest than I had been recently. I took out my calculator and realized that my John Hancock Money Market account was paying me 3% interest. For savers, that’s the upside of the Federal…
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Joe Redling led cemetery and funeral home operator StoneMor through a time of transition. That transition culminated with the public company being taken private in a buy-out from Axar Capital Management in early November 2022. While the company is now a private enterprise concern and Funeral Director Daily has no access to its financial operations,…
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Every once in a while during my searches for Funeral Director Daily topics I’ll come across something I wasn’t aware of in the death care industry. Today I bring you information on what is called the “Ovum Fungi”. This is a product that this press release and the company website refers to as “an eco-friendly…
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I was on my way to a local chapter board meeting of Junior Achievement on Friday morning and listening to business radio. It was at that time that the Producer Price Index (PPI) for the month of November was announced as well as was the PPI for the service industry. Just for the record, the…
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Part of what I’ve always done is watch the trends. I wasn’t the first to put a crematory in my funeral home, but I did see the trends and was the first in my county to do so. I also wasn’t the first funeral home to add staff to concentrate on preneed funeral planning and…
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I recently read this story in the Buffalo (NY) News that is entitled, “Two men planned what would happen after their deaths. Why did they end up in unmarked graves?” The story documents the plights of two men who, by most death care experts opinion, did everything that they should have done about their future deaths…
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If you are part of the Death Care business in North America part of your goal is to move families from grief to remembrance of their loved one. And, if we are honest about it, we should never want anybody to ever be forgotten. That’s why so many are so strong in recommending a place…
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The Federal Trade Commission issued the “Funeral Rule” in 1982 with an effective date of September 1984. Since that time it has operated as a consumer tool for price comparison in the funeral home market. This recent communication from the FTC asks for additional comments on several items by January 3, 2023, as the FTC…
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