death care
There’s a lot that America has been divided about lately. . . politics, Supreme Court rulings, reasons for inflation — the list can go on and on. The podcast Big Brains from the University of Chicago, which has the podcast transcript available on the link also, has an interview with anthropologist Shannon Lee Dawdy that…
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The Cremation Association of North America and Funeral Home Gifts brings you this timely webinar with potential CEU credits for you tomorrow, June 29, 2022. Here’s what CANA had to say about the webinar in a recent press release: The do-it-yourself community has flourished in the years since the US economic crisis of 2008. DIY…
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There is a saying where I come from that says, “It’s summer time and the living is easy”. It conjures up thoughts of being on the golf course, and at the lake, and evenings around the fire pit — in general just simple laid back easy times to relax with family and friends. From what…
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According to SimilarWeb, Legacy.com had its website visited over 49 million times in April 2022 and ranked as the #1 website in its category of interest, Community and Society, in the United States. Again, according to SimilarWeb, the company increased its reach by 4.77% over the month of March 2022. With those kind of numbers…
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In writing Funeral Director Daily I take pride in keeping up with what is happening in the Death Care profession and industry. And, even though the occupation and the choices it has for consumers faced with death of a loved one moves along at a fairly slow and methodical pace, there are changes to keep…
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We’ve burned through another month of feature stories at Funeral Director Daily. If you have missed some of our feature stories, here are the stories that are readers viewed most often from May 16 through June 15. StoneMor agrees to Axar Capital Management buyout. Recognizing the “Cusp of Change” Security National’s 1st Quarter — Memorial…
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There is an insurance company that used to use the slogan “The Quiet Company”. That company was, and still is, known as one of the most successful life insurance companies in America. . . . The “Quiet Company” claim came, at least to my way of thinking, from the idea that they used captive agents…
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Unless you have been living on the Space Station you’ve noticed prices in almost all things are moving up. Housing prices, gasoline, groceries, service work, and even that cup of coffee or latte that you buy at Starbucks. I’m old enough to have lived through this before in the 1970’s and early 1980’s. . .…
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Ray Dalio is the founder and co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater, the largest hedge fund in the world. He’s one of the 100 richest people on Earth. Here’s what he says of leaders: “Most people at the top of their profession made it there because they must be very smart and very capable. Of course,…
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“Humans are into rituals. Birth rituals, marriage rituals, naming rituals—each of these and more are integral to the lives of most people. One type of ritual, perhaps, is most common of all: death rituals.” That’s the first “tease” line for a very interesting podcast I listened to earlier this week. Here’s the next line, “On…
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