The best way to meet and exceed today’s consumer expectations is to check our ego at the door of the funeral home. Funeral service could easily go the way of the VHS tape if we don’t evolve and provide what our families really want and need.
It’s that time of year again, the holiday that seems to be made specifically for funeral service professionals— Halloween! Because most of us fall somewhere on the Spooky SpectrumTM whether it be full on costuming and partying or simply enjoying a scary movie and handing out candy, Halloween is a holiday that is popular amongst our …
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Are embalmers really finding clots in deceased people caused by the Covid vaccine?
Funeral Professionals have had a long standing problem with introspection. We are like Dracula…avoiding the mirrors.
Creutzfeldt Jacob’s Disease is scary; its cause is seemingly invincible, its incubation can last up to decades, and its mortality is 100%. But it is but a mere prion, and we are humans with the ability to think critically in our duty to give families one last goodbye.
If a personalized vault falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Can you eradicate formaldehyde fumes with an air filter? Ben looks at an article on the Dyson filter that makes this claim!
Visualize a bon-fire. Envision the flames licking the air and hear the crackling of the wood burning. Smell the smoke and notice the sparks and embers spitting as the fire consumes the logs. Now imagine that instead of logs being consumed by fire it is a dead body in a box. Your mental picture just …
Why would someone that works for a living making $50K per year, raising 2 children and 2 dogs buy a Louis Vuitton purse for $3,500? What is the attraction? They aren’t even made of leather!! Why is it also that that person wouldn’t think of spending $3,500 for a funeral if their spouse died. WUT?? I recently had an epiphany on this and decided I had to write about it.
Once the cremation rate hit 50% of deaths in the US, funeral service professionals could become nothing more than body movers.
Because of its black plumage, its eerie croaking call, and the fact that it prefers to eat the decaying flesh of already dead animals, the raven is often associated with death and bad luck. However, its symbolism is complex. As a talking bird, the raven also represents prophecy and insight.
