funeral business
It probably does not matter which side of the political spectrum that you straddle in anticipating that what is happening with the new Department of Government Efficienty (DOGE) will change some things as they are related to current government payment systems. Whether you are for or against the effort by DOGE it does…
Read More
According to this January article that I recently read from the Carroll Times Herald of Manning, Iowa, the Ohde Funeral Home of that community has recently came into new ownership. The newspaper article made note of the fact that the funeral home “recently began a new chapter of compassionate care and trusted service…
Read More
Service Corporation International (SCI) reported its 4th Quarter of 2024 as well as its 2024 Year End results last week. Being as large a Death Care company as they are it is probably as close as one gets to an annual report on the status of Death Care in the North America when…
Read More
There are lots of ideas how a new, contemporary, 21st Century physical funeral establishment should look like and function. I don’t think anybody knows exactly what that is, or even if there is a one-size fits all best practices solution to the question. However, it is probably a fair assumption that like…
Read More
Yesterday Funeral Director Daily’s feature article was about Matthews International and its 1st Quarter 2025 Fiscal Year results press release. As we digested that report, which like many public company reports, is big on numbers and sometimes small on the underlying issues and causes, we were informed that Matthews International had suffered a…
Read More
We received an e-mail last week that announced “Pinnacle Funeral Service and Rollings Funeral Service are proud to announce that Nancy Weil has joined the team as Director of Community Outreach. . . . .Nancy’s career includes serving as the Membership Director for the Order of the Golden Rule (OGR) for the past…
Read More
There has been a lot written about the stock markets in the two weeks of the Presidency of Donald Trump. So much seems to depend on what the item of the day with President Trump is and that item seems to move markets one way or another. I’m an amateur investor and…
Read More
Every day I search out articles about Death Care services to provide me with information on topics of interest in our profession/industry. One of the things that has been extremely disappointing to this life-long funeral director and funeral home owner is the amount of negative publicity our profession piles on itself because of…
Read More
Last Monday China shook the financial markets by unveiling that their Aritificial Intelligence capabilities from a company called “DeepSeek” seemed to be further along in developing AI than American counterparts such as Nvidia. . . and doing so with a less expensive model. That moved the financial markets among AI developers such as…
Read More
The International Trade Association defines tariffs as such: “A tariff or duty (the words are used interchangeably) is a tax levied by governments on the value including freight and insurance of imported products. Different tariffs applied on different products by different countries.” I’m writing this on Saturday morning and the “Trump tariffs”…
Read More
