Guest Blog Post – Improving Your Client’s Experience With an Interior Make Over
Elegant surroundings can easily make people feel that one of the last things done for their loved ones was done with love and respect. When a customer makes...
Funeral Planning: Guaranteed Prepaid Contracts Losing Allure
The funeral industry is reconsidering one of the biggest selling points of prepaid funeral contracts?locking in the price prior to death. Escalating commodity costs combined with unprecedented declines...
Precious Metal ‘sold’ After Cremation
As a precious metals refiner, Leon Toffel is used to dealing with fine dust, perhaps produced at a bench by a dental technician. But some years ago, when...
Financial Adviser Loses License Over Funeral Trust Fund Losses
A Merrill Lynch financial adviser in Springfield has temporarily lost his state license, as Illinois regulators continue to investigate investment losses in a $300 million trust fund that...
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Recently I traded in my Blackberry Storm for the new iPhone 3G. The switch made social networking so much easier!!. Not that I wasn't able to stay social...
You?re Dead? That Won?t Stop the Debt Collector
The banks need another bailout and countless homeowners cannot handle their mortgage payments, but one group is paying its bills: the dead. Dozens of specially trained agents work...
60% of Adults Not Afraid of Death60% of Adults Not Afraid of Death
The following statistics come from a Korean company who polled 814 Korean adults. I thought the statistics were interesting. I wonder what would numbers would be if they...
Garrett County Funeral Home Owner Arrested
The owner of Stewart Funeral Home, Bradley Allen Stewart, 60, of Oakland was charged Wednesday with multiple counts of felony theft, theft by scheme and embezzlement, according to...
Body Rots in Hearse, Ala. Funeral Director Charged
A funeral director accused of leaving a woman's body to decay in a parked hearse after her relatives failed to pay the bill was arrested on a felony...
Pre-Need Funeral Investor Demands Repayment of Principal
Lynda Canger of Lake Zurich didn?t think she had to worry about her father-in-law?s funeral. Then she called the funeral home near Chicago where she purchased a pre-need...