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Indigent funerals and funeral home owner benevolence

By Funeral Director Daily / October 25, 2023 /

  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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Poverty level funerals. . . whose responsibility to pay

By Funeral Director Daily / May 9, 2022 /

“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…

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The alarming trend of county paid funerals

By Funeral Director Daily / July 23, 2019 /

As America is gearing up for its 2020 elections we hear a lot of campaign rhetoric about the haves and the have nots.  One of the statistics that you hear is that of a Federal Reserve survey that contends that 40% of U.S. adults said they couldn’t easily cover an unplanned expense of $400.  So,…

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Unclaimed Bodies and Indigent Payments

By Funeral Director Daily / March 1, 2018 /

Alana Durkin Richer of the Associated Press compiled a good article that appeared in the Detroit News that you can read here.  The article is on the growing problem of what to do with indigent bodies when states or municipalities responsible for them are either running out of money or the expected reimbursement to funeral…

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Newspaper Editorializes that “Cremation Has Gained Acceptance”

By Funeral Director Daily / February 23, 2018 /

I 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…

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West Virginia House Moves Indigent Funeral Bill Along

By Funeral Director Daily / February 15, 2018 /

By a vote of 65-33 the West Virginia House passed on Wednesday their Indigent Funeral Bill that will now move on to the state’s Senate.  The somewhat conroversial bill reduces the price paid to funeral directors to $1000 per service from the current payment of $1250. However, the bill also names disposition by cremation as…

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Solving Perpetual – and Growing – Problems in the Industry

By Funeral Director Daily / February 14, 2018 /

The 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…

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West Virginia to Hear House Bill for Indigent Funerals

By Funeral Director Daily / January 25, 2018 /

An 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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