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By Thomas A. Parmalee If you own or work at a funeral home that does less than 500 cremations on an annual basis, 2026 may be a year to remember. […]
Start the new year with steadiness and nurturing. The January Peer Support Meeting is a space for funeral professionals to reconnect after the holidays and explore the three RESET pillars: Strong […]
Johnson Consulting Group, a premier consulting partner to funeral and cemetery professionals nationwide, announces that Jim LaMar has joined the firm as senior business consultant. LaMar’s appointment underscores JCG’s commitment […]
By Welton Hong, founder and CEO of Ring Ring Marketing It started, as many things do today, with a phone call that felt slightly off. A funeral director recalls speaking […]
FINANCE
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By Alan Creedy There’s an old saying: “Tell one person a secret and you have a 50% chance it stays a... -
By Thomas A. Parmalee A newly formed funeral service company that includes a well-known figure in the funeral profession and a...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee Phillip Mason still remembers the day that changed everything. “I was helping a family navigate a funeral bill,”...
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By Johnson Consulting Group It’s no secret that many funeral home owners are approaching a crossroads – whether to pass the...
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By Andrew Kennedy, Senior Loan Officer – Live Oak Bank For funeral home owners, understanding and cultivating strong business credit is...
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By Andrew Kennedy, senior loan officer, Live Oak Bank During the sale of a funeral home, the seller and buyer must...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee Teresa Carlson, one of the most recognizable bankers in funeral service, has worked at The Bancorp for...
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By Andrew Kennedy – Senior Loan Officer, Live Oak Bank If you own a funeral home, ensuring the safety and accessibility...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee Before it inked a pact with Express Funeral Funding to make insurance assignment funding available at all...
MARKETING
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By Welton Hong, founder and CEO of Ring Ring Marketing It started, as many things do today, with a phone call...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee If you work in the deathcare profession, it’s challenging to decide where to spend your time and...
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By Welton Hong, founder and CEO of Ring Ring Marketing In recent years, online reviews have become one of the most...
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By Welton Hong, founder and CEO of Ring Ring Marketing Not long ago, a third-generation funeral home in the Midwest was...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee As competition intensifies and consumer behaviors shift, many funeral homes are discovering that doing “business as usual”...
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FuneralVision.com is offering several noteworthy URLs related to the death-care profession for sale. The following URLs are available: FuneralEducator.com CemeteryOptions.com CremationDeals.com CemeteryDeals.com Thomas Parmalee, founder of...
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By Rick Gershman, Vice President of Messaging and Content for Ring Ring Marketing A chainsaw is a wonderful tool. It’s the...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee Angela Human and Autumn Rothermel met for the first time a couple years ago at a digital...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee With 2025 now in full swing, FuneralVision.com recently reached out to Courtney Gould Miller, president of commercial...
PRENEED
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By Thomas A. Parmalee Many funeral professionals underestimate how early and how often families engage digitally before making a decision. “The journey...
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By Jack Hirsch, president, Funeral Services, Inc. The funeral service profession is always competitive, and staying ahead means offering more than...
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U.S. final expense life insurance new annualized premium increased 16% year over year to $1.05 billion in 2024, according to...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee Rachel Moring grew up with an awareness of the funeral profession, since her father was in the...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee Tim Bridgers has been named managing director of preneed at Global Atlantic Financial Group, a company spokesman...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee It’s been about six months since Joe Celentano, who formerly worked more than 30 years at Pacific...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee If you’re trying to grasp the significance of Foundation Partners Group’s acquisition of Cake, it’s helpful to...
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Global Atlantic Financial Group, a leading insurance company meeting the retirement and life insurance needs of individuals and institutions, announced...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee Chris Rose, founder and president of Cairn Partners, wants to make one thing clear: He does not...
TECHNOLOGY
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At Tech Turbocharge: Digital Tools to Elevate the Deathcare Profession, on Dec. 11 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Baltimore –...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee Move over ChatGPT … funeral homes looking to boost efficiency with artificial intelligence can turn to ClosureMD,...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee For Zack Moy, deciding who to start Afterword with was more like picking a wife than hiring...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee The CEO of OneRoom, a video streaming platform that enables people from around the world to virtually...
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By John Heald, Chief Growth Officer, Legacy.com When I talk to funeral directors across the country, one thing is clear: the...
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When you come to Tech Turbocharge: Digital Tools to Elevate the Deathcare Profession, you’ll learn how to put technology to...
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Eazewell, an AI-enabled funeral planning and facilitation platform co-founded by Donnell Beverly Jr. (a former NCAA National Champion at UConn), former...
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By Zack Moy, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Afterword Let’s face it — technology runs a big part of your funeral...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee When Nicholas Allan’s mom asked him to do her a favor – leave some flowers at the...
NEWS RELEASES
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Start the new year with steadiness and nurturing. The January Peer Support Meeting is a space for funeral professionals to reconnect...
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Johnson Consulting Group, a premier consulting partner to funeral and cemetery professionals nationwide, announces that Jim LaMar has joined the...
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FT North America proudly introduces its first new cremator design in more than 10 years. The FT-USA/XL, FT’s first mid-range machine...
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Alan Creedy and Danny Jefferson have announced the formal launch of J & C Advisors, a newly organized advisory platform...
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For the last 50 years, the cremation rate has been steadily rising, gaining ground over casketed burial. But could that...
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Passare is thrilled to release its annual State of Funeral Service report, featuring insights and technology trends shaping the funeral...
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Change doesn’t happen on its own – it happens when funeral directors step forward, show up and speak up. That’s...
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The International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association recently announced that Darin Drabing, president and chief executive officer of Forest Lawn...
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The Order of the Golden Rule is pleased to announce Jessica MacMillan has joined the OGR team as events manager. In...
CREMATION
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By Thomas A. Parmalee If you own or work at a funeral home that does less than 500 cremations on an...
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The Czachor family, founders of ASD — Answering Service for Directors, have launched a new aviation-based venture: Cremation Air, a...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee Timing is everything – and when the dotcom bust of 2003 hit, it could not have come...
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Americans are choosing cremation more than ever before, setting a new milestone in funeral service trends for 2025. According to...
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FT North America (Facultatieve Technologies) has announced the first of its kind “Hands On” training for crematory operators. Whether you...
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The Cremation Association of North America continues its commitment to providing accurate and comprehensive cremation statistics to the death care...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee It almost sounds too good to be true. FT North America is introducing a new option that will...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee Max Lemper-Tabatsky teamed up with Miles Adams, formerly the head of operations of Tulip Cremation, to launch...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee Lisa Malcore, vice president of Malcore Funeral Home & Crematory and the CEO of Solace Urns, never...
PEOPLE AND OTHER NEWS
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Leadership in funeral service rarely announces itself. It shows up in preparation, restraint, consistency and presence long before it’s tested...
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By Jay Jacobson A quiet shift, a deeper calling I still remember when a family sat across the desk from me, papers...
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With deep respect and heartfelt sorrow, Vandor Group and Starmark announce the death of Gerald H. Davis, former president and...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee SCI Direct has announced the promotion of longtime funeral service professional Jamie Helfenstein to vice president of...
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By Rolf Gutknecht, president and CEO of LA ads Given recent conversations I’ve had with some folks at various firms and...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee Broylman Memorial Group is making good on its vision of continuing to grow. Micah Brown, the CEO and...
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Welcome to Tech Turbocharge: Digital Tools to Elevate the Deathcare Profession, a day designed to ignite ideas, strengthen connections and...
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By Thomas A. Parmalee Few individuals in the funeral profession embody a lifetime of uninterrupted service quite like Eugene M. “Gene”...
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Terry Alvin Kaufman, 71, of Bad Axe, Michigan was arraigned before Judge Julienne M. Ferris in the 73B District Court...
VIDEO INTERVIEWS
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Stephen Walter, the CEO of Sunset, recently participated in a wide-ranging conversation with the founder of FuneralVision.com on how his...
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In a recent in-depth conversation, Celebrate Life Co. founder and CEO Nick Allan outlined his company’s mission to modernize cemetery...
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When Jake Johnson looks back on the 25-year journey of Johnson Consulting Group, he doesn’t just see the growth of...
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Aaron Butler, director of field development at Domani Preneed and one of the keynote speakers at “Mastermind: Elevating Your Funeral...
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Michael Schimmel, the founder and CEO of Sympathy Brands, recently sat down for an interview with FuneralVision.com. During the interview, he...
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Rehan Choudhry, the founder and CEO of Chptr, highlighted noteworthy partnerships with Foundation Partners Group and Tribute Technology in a...
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Danielle Burmeister, vice president of marketing communications at Homesteaders Life Company, recently sat down for a video interview with FuneralVision.com. During...
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Karl Weisenbeck, the longtime president of Funeral Home Gifts, recently sat down for a video interview with the founder of...
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John Heald, a licensed funeral director, former funeral home owner, entrepreneur and longtime executive at Legacy.com, was recently promoted to...