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This article will be sent to Funeral Director Daily subscribers on the last day of 2021. By that time America will have passed the 800,000 number of deaths due to Covid-19 and will have had more deaths in 2021 than in 2020. That’s 800,000 individual human beings who have lost their lives and it is…
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I don’t know if it is just me or others see it too. For years funeral directors seemed to work in anonymity, but when someone called us we were always there to answer. However, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, I seem to think that funeral directors and morticians are finally seen in our society for…
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I was visiting on the phone with the CEO of one of the funeral home consolidation companies on Friday when he asked me how long I had been out of direct management of our business. I replied that it is just over seven years and I was happy not to have been there during the…
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When I was in Middle School and High School and my father, a 3rd generation funeral director, would talk to me about being a funeral director he would always say something like this, “It’s a noble profession. You won’t get rich but you will do fine making a nickel at a time and you will…
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Today’s feature in our popular “Get to Know Them” edition is centered on Peter J. Rose, CFSP, LFD, and General Manager of the Betz, Rossi, Bellinger and Stewart Family Funeral Homes in Amsterdam, New York. While the “Get to Know Them” feature is centered around getting to know the profession and what differing duties and…
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There is no doubt that one of the costs that funeral homes have encountered in the past six months of the COVID world we find ourselves living in is cleaning and disinfecting the funeral home real estate. We’ve been told that sometimes it is even hard to find a commercial service that has an opening…
Read MoreMaybe we really are aging a little. It seems like just yesterday that we were talking about the Millennials — that group of beings born between 1981 and 1996 – coming into the workforce and how we were prepared to deal with their age based culture. That group is now aged between the mid 20’s…
Read MoreWe’ve written several times in this medium that funeral homes all over the country are having tough times attracting and retaining new young employees. I came across an article published by ABC.net Australia that you can read here which points out maybe some of us older, set in our ways employers just need to be…
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