death care
It’s hard for me to believe that I now call Direct Mail, Radio, and Newspaper advertising “non-conventional”. When I started in the business that was about as “conventional” as it got. However, when I am looking online for products to buy I’ve become accustomed to looking at the “Reviews” or the “Star Ratings” now. I…
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It was probably ten years ago when I, as a funeral director, received a phone call from a member of a family whose father was on hospice care. The family member told me that his father “wanted his body donated to science” and had made arrangements for a private company to help them do that. …
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I’ve been on this bandwagon a long time and I can see it coming down the road. The bandwagon I’m talking about is “hospice providers becoming part of the death care profession”. In this article from Hospice News you can read about hospice provider Compassus beginning a pilot progam to, among other things, “assist with…
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Yesterday, July 19, Seeking Alpha published a pretty in-depth investment article from Livingston Investments on funeral home and cemetery operator Service Corporation International. The article is entitled, “Service Corporation International: Crisis reslient business with a premium to fair price”. You can access the article here. There was a couple of statements in the article that…
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Funeral Director Daily published this article last week that we titled “We saw a lot of deaths in 2020”. The article tried to put a number to the number of death care cases across the United States in our Covid-19 pandemic year. We came up with the number of 3,427,321 which was a 20% increase…
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It’s not all that common but it does happen in the death care profession from time to time. The “it” I’m talking about is regulatory infractions that can cause a funeral home or other other death care business, such as a crematory, to be shut down for some period of time. When it does happen…
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In a decision that came down in early July 2021 a Canadian arbitrator has ruled against a funeral home and for its two employees in a case involving employees rights to a pierced nose and un-covered tattoos. You can read the article from Canada’s National Post on the decision here. In essence, the decision by…
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It was announced last week in this press release that Foundation Partners Group (FPG), based in Orlando, Florida, added another Florida location to its footprint in that state. It was announced that the Farley Funeral Homes and Crematory would be acquired by Foundation Partners Group giving the cremation heavy consolidator 35 locations in the state…
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Really good funeral directors are great to have working on your team. If you have a really good funeral director in your employ, how do you know it? Are there metrics that can be quantified to tell if you do have a really good funeral director on your team? If so, how do you get…
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I’ve operated and managed a thriving funeral home. If you’ve been there and done it. . . you know it is 24/7/365. . . .not many days go by when you don’t worry about something. And, I’ve dealt with grieving family members, regulators, and the consumer movement too. When you operate a community funeral home,…
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