funeral homes

This isn’t your grandmother’s funeral

By Funeral Director Daily / January 25, 2024 /

    This recent article in Florida’s Business Observer is titled “Funeral home finds success with new life celebration model”.  The article goes on to discuss, among other business changes in the death care industry, the Robert Toale & Sons Celebration of Life Center in the Sarasota, Florida, area.   The Robert Toale & Sons…

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Where and when will Artificial Intelligence be found in Death Care?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 24, 2024 /

    Collins Dictionary, a British publisher, named “AI” as its “Word of the Year for 2023”.  In doing so they added this explanation, “AI, short for artificial intelligence, is a term that describes “the modeling of human mental functions by computer programs.”   Using that definition, “the modeling of human mental functions by computer…

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Opioid deaths just keep on coming

By Funeral Director Daily / January 22, 2024 /

    It’s difficult to know exactly this early into 2024 if 2023 was a year in which opioid deaths continued to climb or if the United States is starting to make progress in its fight to limit these number of deaths.   However, every funeral director in the country has probably had to deal…

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Funeral home sale “keeps it local” and “generational”

By Funeral Director Daily / January 17, 2024 /

  We’ve said it many times before, “funeral home ownership has historically been local, family-owned, and generational”.  And while there are a good many really good regional and national consolidators, many times “keeping it local” can be a defining part of what an owner wishes to do when he or she eventually decides to sell…

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Can Preneed lead funeral homes forward

By Funeral Director Daily / January 16, 2024 /

If you operate or work at a funeral home you know that there is a lot of change going on. . . . .Let’s see, there is less church membership leading to less church services.  And, less church services seems to be leading to less traditional services going so far as to move to an…

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Don’t let politics get in your way

By Funeral Director Daily / January 15, 2024 /

    Maybe you’ve been living under a rock and have not heard multiple and multiple times from media and social media that today is the Iowa Caucuses. . . .the first step in whittling up the candidates that will lead to the upcoming 11-month process in selecting our next President.  So, brace yourself for…

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What embalmers have seen — Pre- and Post- Pandemic

By Funeral Director Daily / January 12, 2024 /

    My wife and I happened to be staying on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, on the date of the Chinese New Year in 2020. . . that date was January 25, 2020.  I remember it vividly because as we came back to the hotel from dinner the Chinese New Year party was starting…

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Johnson Consulting adds Jim Price to their staff

By Funeral Director Daily / January 11, 2024 /

It was announced in a recent press release that industry veteran Jim Price has joined the team at Johnson Consulting Group.  In the press release Johnson Consulting Group described Price as “a distinguished professional with an unparalleled career spanning over five decades in the funeral and cemetery profession. Price’s strategic acumen and proven success record…

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SCI to new build new headquarters in Houston

By Funeral Director Daily / January 10, 2024 /

  We learned from this article in the Houston Chronicle that Service Corporation International (SCI) is planning to build a new headquarters building adjacent to their current headquarters later this year.  The article points out that the new headquarters to be built on Allen Parkway next to the current headquarters could total a construction cost…

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Are you registered for CANA’s “Thinking Green” cremation symposium?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 8, 2024 /

  It is a only a little more than a month away. . . .are you ready to attend?  The “It” I’m referring to is the “Thinking Green” Cremation Symposium hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada, by the Cremation Association of North America (CANA).  It’s happening from February 14-16, 2024, and you can learn much more…

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