Awesome Ideas From Some of NFDA’s Best of the Best Funeral Homes
Every year, multiple funeral homes submit essays to the National Funeral Directors Association in the hopes of being one of up to 10 recipients of the organization’s Best...
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With These Sketchy Solutions, No Wonder Early Americans Didn’t Embalm Their Dead
While the practice of embalming stretches back to the ancient Egyptians, Americans didn’t begin embalming their dead until the Civil War, and then it was only for the...
These High-Profile Funerals Can Help You Illustrate the Power of Preplanning
Everyone knows that preplanning a funeral is the best way to ensure your personal preferences are honored at your funeral, right? Wrong. Big time. During last month’s 2025...
5 Manageable Ways To Help Your Team Tackle Compassion Fatigue
Like midnight calls and weekend funerals, compassion fatigue could be viewed as just part of the job for deathcare professionals. You provide comfort to grieving families, prepare loved...
FAMIC Leads Profession-Wide Effort to Tackle Funeral Service Workforce Crisis
New video series offers peer-driven solutions to help funeral homes recruit and retain staff Brookfield, Wis. – The Funeral and Memorial Information Council (FAMIC), in collaboration with its...
Should We Revive This Ancient (but Effective!) Embalming Technique?
In a remarkable discovery that bridges centuries of mortuary science, researchers have unveiled the unique embalming method used on the so-called "air-dried chaplain" of Austria. This revelation not...
The KING of Funeral Events: Adam Guthrie’s Proven Strategy
How can funeral homes build stronger relationships with their community while growing their business? It all comes down to events! In this episode, Ryan Thogmartin sits down with...