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Transcend continues movement of forest into “product”

By Funeral Director Daily / October 17, 2022 /

This article from Fast Company introduces us to a new start-up in the burial and memorialization space, Transcend. Transcend, the brainchild of founder and CEO Matthew Kochmann, plans to be somewhat like Better Place Forests in that they will be bringing forests and trees into the realm of memorialization. Unlike Better Place Forests, where a…

Craft beers and Green funerals

By Funeral Director Daily / January 19, 2021 /

I read this article entitled “Everyone dies, so why not go out as a tree?” from Denverite magazine. I even smile as I write this but it made me think of craft beer. I’m not alcohol free. I had of my share of beer. . . especially in my twenties. Today, however, I’m more for…

Cemeteries and their problems

By Funeral Director Daily / January 2, 2020 /

Over the last couple of years of writing the daily article for Funeral Director Daily one of my routines is to continuously search for information that might be of interest to those in the funeral, memorial, or what is now being called the “Death Care” space. In doing so, I have came across many articles,…

The Reverence of Earth Burial?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 3, 2019 /

It’s a proven point that if you want to build a successful business and follow the American dream of making a lot of money, you need to deliver on and provide, at the right price, what the consumer public wants. I was fortunate enough about six years ago to listen to a friend of mine…