funeral homes
“Humans are into rituals. Birth rituals, marriage rituals, naming rituals—each of these and more are integral to the lives of most people. One type of ritual, perhaps, is most common of all: death rituals.” That’s the first “tease” line for a very interesting podcast I listened to earlier this week. Here’s the next line, “On…
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Last Friday when Funeral Director Daily published an article entitled “Is it time to buy funeral home stocks” unknown to us Seeking Alpha author Mat Litalien was publishing an article about Park Lawn Corporation. It was entitled “Death and Taxes” and gives a synopsis of Park Lawn Corporation and he concludes his article by saying…
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Every death care company is looking for ways to draw potential consumers to their online presence in order to engage them before they become clients of another death care company. We decided to ask industry expert Welton Hong for some tips on how funeral homes can get that “extra reach” that may be able to…
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According to this release from BusinessWire direct-to-consumer company Titan Casket has secured $3.5 million in seed funding to expand its operations in the United States. The round of funding was led by Reformation Partners. The release continues as it says, “As Titan continues to expand its product and service categories with the addition of eco-friendly…
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Earlier this week I read this article from Yahoo Finance authored by Brian Sozzi. The article is entitled “Consumers have to face that nasty inflation is here to stay for awhile”. The article goes on to mention that, at least in Mr. Sozzi’s opinion, skilled workers are too few in number to meet the needs…
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It was 85 years ago this past March when “funeral directors from across East Texas showed up. Dallas dispatched 25 doctors, 100 nurses, and 25 embalmers” to the small Texas oil boom community of New London. After the tragedy and according to this article , “morticians embalmed more than 200 bodies in the Overton American…
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On May 24, twenty-one people lost their lives to the latest American school shooting. Those twenty-one have been, or will be, laid to rest as their families choose and desire. A lot of people help out in the grief process and they are all appreciated. I couldn’t help but think when I read this article…
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Over the last couple of weeks I have read a couple of articles that seem to indicate a path that death care is going — at least as some people see it. The first article which you can read here is a public relations piece from the United Kingdom and is titled, “Cultural shifts and…
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It’s another way I see that the death care world has changed since I left the active profession in 2013. That’s only nine years ago but even how funeral and memorial services are paid for has changed. In my day families came in to the arrangement conference and almost all services were financed by savings,…
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We learned in this article from Saltwire that Toronto, Ontario, based direct cremation provider Eirene is set to expand their services to the province of Nova Scotia. In business for two years in Ontario the provider offers a cremation package that includes death certificates, transportation, and estate administration support in addition to the removal of…
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