funeral trends
Earlier today we released an article, “Is Now the Time”. It dealt with the growing cost of waiting on projects that you might be planning for your funeral home or cemetery. Since that article came out we have noticed two articles that were recently published that somewhat dealt with trends in the death care industry…
Read MoreIn the last couple of days I have read articles from different areas of the United States pertaining to the establishment of “Green Cemeteries” in those locales. The first you can read here and comes from the southern portion of Illinois and concerns the City of Carbondale turning a city cemetery over to the option…
Read MoreWhen I was younger the election night banter we always heard was as the title of this article, “As Maine Goes. . . So Goes the Nation”. What it meant under those circumstances was that the State of Maine had an uncanny history of always selecting the Presidential candidate correctly, so the commentators pointed out…
Read MoreWithin the last month a reader commented on one of our postings with the comment, “The process is always greater than the product”. I recently went through an automobile purchase for my 20 year old and can argue that I don’t really believe that statement to be true all the time. In this case, I…
Read MoreHave you noticed in the last several years the number of Saturday funeral or memorial services that you conduct in comparison to the services that are done the rest of the week. At least, anecdotally, if you don’t keep statistics, you must feel you are scheduling staff more and more on Saturdays to serve…
Read MoreYesterday’s edition of the Morning Call, a newspaper covering the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania carried an article about a new crematory receiving permission to be installed by the Fullerton Wilbert Vault and Burial Company in the Lehigh Valley. It goes on to say the the zoning board unanimously approved the installation for a business that…
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