Funeral Director Daily

How do consumers come up with the money to pay for funerals?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 27, 2023 /

Yesterday we took a look at how funeral merchants should expect their clients to pay for the services that they select. Our article took a look at crowdfunding, credit cards, savings, and, of course, preneed funding. And, we concluded that as good as it is to get payment done and out of the…

Who’s paying for America’s funerals?

By Funeral Director Daily / December 22, 2021 /

Time has a way of changing one’s perspective. I’ve told you before that I started in this business as a funeral director in 1980. I was paid $1,000 per month and our funeral home conducted virtually 100% of our funerals in the traditional “casket, funeral, vault, burial” method. I remember that the final billings, including…

Crowdfunding. . . and funerals. . . growing?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 27, 2019 /

Over the past couple of years Funeral Director Daily has written some articles on the idea of going to a mass funding site to pay for funeral expenses. We don’t know much about this, but we do know that it is a growing phenomena – not only with funerals – but with other large expenses…

Will that be Cash, Credit, or Crowdfunding?

By Funeral Director Daily / May 18, 2018 /

About a year ago Funeral Director Daily ran an article when we learned that some people were using crowdfunding sites to help raise the money needed to pay for the memorial expenses that they chose for their loved ones. We recently read an article in the United Kingdom’s Independent entitled, “We had to beg…