funeral planning
I’m always searching the web for things that might be tied in to the funeral/cremation or greater Death Care business world. Just the other day I came across a website for a company in the preneed arena which has a home page that states, “The Promise of Preneed“. The company is…
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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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Last December I was welcomed into the world of Medicare. Prior to that I had either had my health insurance paid for by the business I was working for or, since I sold our funeral home, paid for it out of my own pocket on an individual plan basis. Quite frankly, Medicare and its…
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At times I get my ideas for articles from unusual places. Last Sunday I was sitting in our church when the pastor noticed a less than average crowd. He then made the comment that “Preparation Matters” and went on to say that he thinks many in the congregation had not planned for the…
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The Choice Mutual annual survey on American burial preferences, that you can access here, has been released and it shows that preference for Natural Burial dispositions has grown since the 2020 survey while the preference for traditional services and cremation has declined. To be sure, Natural Burial only shows a preference of 10% of the…
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We are coming up on Memorial Day weekend. For me it is always a time for reflection on the good that America has done over the years on the world stage and a time to honor and respect those that were willing to put their lives on the line for others. That duty has always…
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According to this article from This is Money (Great Britain) the Safe Hands Plans funeral preneed fund “went under six weeks ago”. Taking information from an article in the Financial Mail on Sunday, it suggests that over 47,000 plan holders are left with the potential of zero balances in their trust funds that were supposed…
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There is an old song released in April 1981 and sung by Barbara Mandrel entitled, “I was Country when Country wasn’t cool”. I have to admit that when I entered my freshman year of college at Texas Christian University in September of 1976 I started hearing music that resonated with me. . . .Waylon Jennings,…
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Yesterday Funeral Director Daily published an article about cemeteries and in that article we made the assertion that the COVID experience of 2020 will probably have some type of long-term effect on funerals going forward. That statement was made mostly in reference to what has happened with funeral attendance due to the social distancing practices…
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It is somewhat unbelievable to me how fast we have moved from Memorial Day to Labor Day, but here we are. Among the American debate, many schools are opening, the election is soon here, and the one constant is that those in the funeral profession continue to give comfort and guidance to those in need.…
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