How To Become an 18 Foot Screaming Head When You Die
Peter Camani has a suggestion for where your earthly remains should go when you die. "Why settle for a small underground plot in the suburbs," he writes on...
Funeral Service Suppliers Win NFDA Convention Booth Contest
The National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) recognized three funeral service suppliers for having the best booths in the Expo Hall during the 2013 NFDA International Convention & Expo,...
Security National Life Launches iRegister Digital Guestbook Program
Security National Life (SNL) is pleased to announce the official launch of the iRegister digital guestbook program. This turnkey package begins with the iRegister Android guestbook application, which...
Robby Bates Installed as President of the National Funeral Directors Association
Brookfield, Wis. – Robert L. “Robby” Bates, CFSP, CCO, of Bates Family Funeral Home in De Kalb, Texas, was installed as president of the National Funeral Directors Association...
ASD Blew Our Minds With This Unexpected Gift
We can't thank ASD - Answering Service for Directors, enough for this great gift. It was unexpected and means a lot. (more…)
The Day the Pallbearers Dropped the Casket [Caleb Wilde]
Article from Caleb Wilde, CalebWilde.com The worst thing that every happened at one of our funerals, happened a little over three years ago, during a combination snow and...
Owners Giving Pets Elaborate Funerals
THE owners of lizards, alpacas, guinea pigs and rats are spending $1500 for pet grief specialists as mourning families do away with backyard burials for the religious traditions...
FDLIC and Passare, Inc. Form Strategic Alliance
Funeral Directors Life Insurance Company (FDLIC) is proud to announce a groundbreaking, multi-faceted venture with San Francisco, CA based Passare, Inc. (Passare.com), a vertical end-to-end SaaS (Software as...
FTC Hears Jewish Group’s Concerns on SCI/Stewart Enterprises Merger
Five months into the Federal Trade Commission's extended review of Service Corp. International's proposed $1.4 billion purchase of funeral home rivalStewart Enterprises, staff from the agency and from the Maryland Attorney General's...
Trigard launches two new products at NFDA Expo
Danville, IL – “Want to grow? Come see what’s new at Trigard.” That’s how Trigard challenged funeral professionals for the 2013 NFDA Convention and Expo in Austin—and attendees...