NFDA Members Elect New Leaders to Guide Profession’s Future
Dan Ford to serve as 2025-26 NFDA President Brookfield, Wis. – Eligible voting members of the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) elected the following individuals to serve as...
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FINAL CALL: Enroll in CANA’s Certified Cremation Specialist Program
Registration Deadline July 1, 2025 WHEELING, IL— Strengthen your own real-world arrangement skills while raising service standards across the profession! Time is running out to register for the...
Gentle Water selects the Travel Plan by Inman as their Travel Plan provider
Gentle Water Cremation, a water cremation funeral home servicing all of Florida, has selected the Travel Plan by Inman as their travel plan provider. “We appreciate that all...
Historic Cemeteries, Modern Opportunities
CANA Convention Highlights Cremation Memorialization with Mount Auburn’s Regina Harrison As it has steadily become the most popular form of disposition in the US and Canada, cremation has...
Necropolis 4.0 and Tree Pods: A Design Professor Imagines the Future of Urban Deathscapes
The global population is growing, more people are dying, and despite rising cremation rates, conventional burials are still consuming land and other natural resources. What’s a densely populated...
Selected Independent Funeral Homes Lets the Good Times Roll at 107th Annual Meeting in New Orleans
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. – June 17, 2025 – The world’s leading independent funeral service professionals will gather in New Orleans, LA for Selected Independent Funeral Homes’ 107th Annual Meeting at The Ritz-Carlton on...
Are You Creating or Killing Customer Loyalty?
Culture and Customer Loyalty Keynote Joan Fox at CANA’s 107th Convention WHEELING, IL— The last 25 years of funeral service have brought unpredictable and incalculable changes to this...