morticians

Dignity, care, and respect. . . bringing the fallen home

By Funeral Director Daily / April 15, 2024 /

    On Saturday night I was at a movie, came home and turned the television on to catch the news and learned of the missile bombardment of Israel that Iran took responsibility for.  Now, I don’t know all the nuances of the political world that comes into these types of situations around the world,…

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Invite your spouse for CANA’s Tuesday night Peer Support

By Funeral Director Daily / March 18, 2024 /

    For the first time that I can remember, the Cremation Association of North America’s (CANA) Peer Support online meeting is asking all funeral workers to invite their spouse for tomorrow night’s group get-together.  According to a recent press release from CANA, here’s why:   “A funeral professional may be called upon as an…

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Mortuary Education: It’s our future and needs to be relevant

By Funeral Director Daily / February 27, 2024 /

    In this recent article from the student operated  Minnesota Daily (University of Minnesota) the Director of the Mortuary Science program Michael LuBrant says this, “Really, it’s a form of health care. It’s serving families, deceased individuals and people at the end of the life cycle. . . . “   LuBrant explains that…

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CANA Peer Support tonight. . . and more

By Funeral Director Daily / February 20, 2024 /

    It’s already the 3rd Tuesday of the month when our friends at the Cremation Association of North American (CANA) help to produce the monthly Death Care Peer Support meetings online.  It will happen again tonight at 8 pm Eastern Time/ 7 pm Central Time.   Here’s what CANA says about these meetings: “Join…

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Trends and Value: What do they say for our future?

By Funeral Director Daily / February 15, 2024 /

    Looking forward at different potential scenarios is never easy to do.  A lot of what we think about the future doesn’t come to pass.  But if you fail to look forward and look at potential happenings it is certain that you will never be a leader. . . you will always be a…

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Tune in to this seminar that will help with recruiting and retaining top talent

By Funeral Director Daily / February 6, 2024 /

  In timely fashion we bring you this information on an NFDA (National Funeral Directors Association) webinar to be held tomorrow, Wednesday, February 7.   We say “timely” because it was just this morning that our Funeral Director Daily topic was that of employees and, specifically, employee wages and what is happening in the macro-environment…

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Can identifying “Pre-Skills” better your staffing?

By Funeral Director Daily / February 1, 2024 /

  Over the past couple of years many in the Death Care profession have identified that there has been a labor issue in funeral service.  Anecdotally, in my opinion, most of that labor issue has simply been in being “short-staffed” on the licensed funeral director/embalmer realm.   There seems to be somewhat of a lull…

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Don’t let politics get in your way

By Funeral Director Daily / January 15, 2024 /

    Maybe you’ve been living under a rock and have not heard multiple and multiple times from media and social media that today is the Iowa Caucuses. . . .the first step in whittling up the candidates that will lead to the upcoming 11-month process in selecting our next President.  So, brace yourself for…

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Johnson Consulting adds Jim Price to their staff

By Funeral Director Daily / January 11, 2024 /

It was announced in a recent press release that industry veteran Jim Price has joined the team at Johnson Consulting Group.  In the press release Johnson Consulting Group described Price as “a distinguished professional with an unparalleled career spanning over five decades in the funeral and cemetery profession. Price’s strategic acumen and proven success record…

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Military Mortuary Affairs Specialist’s dream comes true in opening his own funeral home

By Funeral Director Daily / January 3, 2024 /

  Tobias Uhrig served his country in the United States military and in doing that service he served in the Mortuary Affairs Unit.  His military career afforded him the opportunity to honor fallen service members while stationed in 339th Quartermaster Company in South Korea and later at the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System at Dover…

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