indigent funerals
I live in America which is a representative democracy with the freedom for individuals to attain through education, hard work, creative enterprise, investment, and sometimes just plain luck the ability to gain and collect more resources than others. To that same end, the country offers no guarantee that your work and life will end…
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“Blessed are those that mourn, for they shall be comforted,” It is something that always seems to be around the nexus of free enterprise and government intervention or regulation when it comes to the death care services of those poverty level citizens of our communities. The “It” is the debate about the value of what…
Read MoreI am still thinking of Monday’s feature where I commented on the numbers, or lack thereof, that seem to be entering the funeral service profession. One of the reasons that I indicated why I believe what is causing that number is that young people just don’t get the exposure to what funeral directors do because…
Read MoreAdams County Coroner James Keller has came up with a controversial policy concerning the payments for indigent services in his county. You can read about the situation from NBCChicago.com here. The story relates how Coroner Keller has the family sign over the rights for the deceased to his office. He then cremates the deceased and…
Read MoreI found it a little different when I read an editorial in the West Virginia Gazette Mail that you can read here. I’m pretty used to editorials telling us what political candidate to pick, or what side of the right to life to be on, or what side of gun owernship to be on. I’ve…
Read MoreThe other day I was going thru my daily articles of the industry when I came across two articles, that while not unique to what I read, caused me to pause to think — “How will we solve these problems?” Because, I don’t think that these problems are going to go away with out some…
Read MoreAn interesting bill that may have ramifications for beyond West Virginia was recently referred to the West Virginia House Finance Committee. The bill, which should come up for debate and possible vote this session stems from the fact that the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources ran out of indigent burial funding last…
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