funeral homes
I find it very interesting in that once I pick out an article for the day that other resources about the subject just seem to pop out to me and make me notice them when I have not noticed them in the past. I don’t know why it happens, but it does seem…
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I’ve always loved the Spring of the year. For us in the northern climates days are getting longer, the sun feels warmer, we can be outside without multiple layers of clothes on and the golf course opens. Ever since I was small I’ve looked forward to this time of the year and was…
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I think the last few years, especially in some of America’s largest urban centers, we’ve learned that the rule of law is essential in a democracy. It’s imperative that we have laws and even business regulations so that all people play by the same set of rules. However, sometimes it feels like…
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Last week I spoke in front of a small audience of funeral directors and commented on what I see happening in the Death Care world. One of the things that I have noticed that is very similar to the funeral home world that I worked in is that death care clientele have three…
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When public companies report their financial numbers each quarter, it is pretty much expected that matured companies have practical and easily understood numbers in comparison to what their financial numbers were for the previous comparable quarter of operations. In that regard you would look for the results of funeral home and cemetery…
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It’s been no secret that for the past 30 years more and more women have been becoming active in the death care profession. I saw the trend start with pre-need counselors but now according to this article from Spectrum 1, 65% of all graduates of funeral director programs in the United States are…
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I often tell people in funeral service that with Funeral Director Daily “I don’t break the news, I just tell those in the profession what I’ve heard, what I’m seeing, and what my opinion on the subject is.” I’ve secured a pretty good following by doing that and giving busy death care professionals…
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Mathews International’s sales rose about 7.8% year over year for their 2nd Quarter of 2023 as compared to the same quarter of 2022. Matthews is on a fiscal year so their 2nd Quarter comprises the months of January, February, and March. Most of the sales increase occured in Matthews Industrial Technologies segment. …
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Earlier in April Parting Stone and its CEO Justin Crowe appeared on an episode of Shark Tank looking for potential investors to help move the company along into the mainstream of post-cremation remains options. And, while that happened as the company took an investment offer from well known Sharks Kevin O’Leary and Lori…
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There are approximately 3 million deaths in the United States each year. As of 2023, about 40% of those deaths are interred as “Traditional Earth Burials”. That leaves about 1.8 million deaths that are cremations, alkaline hydrolysis, green burials, or natural organic reduction forms of disposition. In almost all of the three…
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