How a Casket Is Assembled
A steel casket is more than just a large metal box. Many different manual and automated assembly processes are used to create a dignified product with an elegant...
Wilbert Announces Strategic Alliance With Renowned Chicago Jeweler Lester Lampert
Wilbert Funeral Services, Inc. (WFSI), the leading single-source supplier of burial vaults, cremation-related products and memorialization jewelry, today announced an expanded partnership with Lester Lampert, Chicago?s nationally acclaimed...
FuneralResources.com Selects FuneralRecording.com as Their Preferred Provider for Funeral Webcasting
www.funeralresources.com, the industry?s leading family-focused online resource for funeral planning, announced today they will be selecting FuneralRecording.com as their Preferred Provider for all of their funeral webcasting and...
Funeral Director Accepts Cancer, Still Cares For Others
Now Conley is facing death himself. In January, after he suffered symptoms of a heart attack, doctors found a malignant tumor had wrapped itself around Conley's inferior vena...
Pre-Planning, Doing it right, Finally
Graham Murphy's cell phone is ringing.It's inventory time at JA Snow Funeral Home and the number of caskets and urns isn't adding up. "Sorry about that," he says,...
Families Don?t Know What They Don?t Know: Basic Grave Protection versus Lined and Sealed Vaults
Knowing, explaining and presenting the facts about outer burial containers versus vaults will increase your profits and provide additional value to your client families. Many of us have...
NewWeekly Funeral Service Journal Set to Launch January 1; Promises Comprehensive, Interactive Coverage of Death Care
TRENTON, NJ ?A new weekly subscription-based publication dedicated to complete coverage of the death care profession will debut in January 2010; and its editor is a familiar name...
Customers of Funeral Home Involved in Severed Corpse Gets Help from State
In June, a South Carolina judge ordered a funeral home to close, after a dead man?s legs were cut off, to force his body into a casket. Now...
Down in the mouth? Try a Faith-lift
We all have our ?down? times. If we didn?t there would be something seriously wrong with the way we approach life. As funeral professionals, the down times often...
New Funeral Consumer Alliance Board
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Beverlee Miller says she has already made her burial decisions with her family, but she knows that most people wait until a family member dies....