Businesses include funeral directors, nurses, nursing home administrators, pharmacists and other health and death care professionals.
Filed under: Death Care News on August 31st, 2010 | No Comments »
Who studies for a funeral service career, and how much can individuals make in this field?
Filed under: Deathcare Careers, Deathcare Training on February 22nd, 2010 | No Comments »
Are you a funeral director, or do you know one who seems cynical, who is lacking in energy and who seems depressed at times?
Filed under: Caregivers, Deathcare Careers on January 24th, 2010 | No Comments »
If you’re aiming for the top in the funeral business, a look at what a Funeral Director does, what he or she makes and the training required might be in order.
Filed under: Deathcare Careers on January 9th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Unless you work for a funeral home, or unless you have an obsession about death and dying practices, you may wonder if there is a difference between a funeral director and a mortician or a mortician and an undertaker. For all intents and purposes today, there is no difference – especially if the funeral home is a small family operation. But, in larger funeral home operations, you might see a slight difference in what each job traditionally entails.
Filed under: Funeral Arrangements, Funeral Basics, Funeral Homes, History of Funerals on September 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
You may have read about the Oklahoma couple who covered up the death of a daughter and who transported that child’s body across six state lines about six times for a total of 1,900 miles before they were caught. While cases like this occur occasionally, body transportation must exist to return a body to a family or to send the deceased to a burial location outside the place of death, among other legitimate reasons. Can you deliver a body yourself, or do regulations exist to prevent this measure?
Filed under: Alternatives, Funeral Arrangements, Funeral Law, Other Legal Matters on July 16th, 2009 | No Comments »
Few people might be ready to go head-to-head with a funeral director following the death of a loved one. But, if you’re willing to direct some of your pent-up anger over an untimely death, then you can hone in on slicing a funeral price in half or more. If you think you’re not up to this negotiating, then send a trusted family member to help seal a lower price for that loved one’s funeral.
Filed under: Funeral Arrangements, Funeral Homes on May 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
My brother, who is into an extreme green lifestyle, reminds his family occasionally how he’d like to die. He wants to trip into the great beyond while traipsing in the woods. Then, he wants no one to find him for a good three months or more.
Filed under: Alternatives, Death & Dying, Funeral Arrangements, Plan Your Own, Traditions on March 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One way to avoid expensive funerals is to stay alive forever. If you’re human, however, it seems that this option isn’t a reliable one. If you pre-plan your funeral, then, you may learn that funeral costs often fall immediately behind homes and automobiles as the third most expensive item that most American families will make during a lifetime.
Filed under: Alternatives, Funeral Arrangements, Funeral Homes, Plan Your Own on December 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment »