We are a full service preneed and cemetery care fund management company in business exclusively for the death care industry.
As the holidays fast approach, I find myself –as many others do –remembering those who are nolonger with us. How many times have each of us lost someone close and had to take care of theirfinal wishes? While everyone close to you is looking for you to make him or her feel better, or havethe…
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What stands out about your funeral home? I know there are days when we feel we’re on the proverbial hamster wheel, doing the same old thing for the families we serve. What do we need to do to bring it to the next level? Many believe the future rides on that drawer full of prefunded…
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As we met our new friend Walt, the elevator operator at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Florida, my mom and I caught up with him about his visit with his new grandson. Reaching the sixth floor, where the 12-bed Jay Robert Lauer Hospice and PC Unit occupies six rooms, we exited to find another familiar…
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GeorgeDead, deadweight, death, deathbed, deathblow, death notice, death penalty, death-rattle, death-sentence, death-squad, death-toll, deathtrap, decay, deceased, decedent, decomposition, demise, departure, die, dying, and died. Not to be confused with the “Big D” word Divorce. Which, as funeral directors, we have a higher than most incidence of; Some say a perk of the job. READ MORE…
In honor of October being breast cancer awareness month, I would like to share the awesomeness of “girl power.” I am tired of hearing stories about the negative side of being female in a male-dominant funeral world. As we become a more prominent force in the death-care industry, I want to share the funny side…
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As I sat in single-lane traffic on I-95 South in Connecticut for the third construction-related traffic jam from Boston to Madison, Connecticut, it was apparent to me that this country is spending a fair amount of money on infrastructure. READ MORE…
Preneed remains an important option for funeral professionals and the families they serve. To find out what is the current state of the preneed market, what customers want and where preneed sales are heading in the future, we reached out to Tyler Anderson, vice president of business development at Precoa; Jessica Grann, director of corporate…
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No generation in history has been more analyzed, scrutinized, hypothesized, advertised, and capitalized than the baby boomers. All through my life, economists and business professionals have been studying this anomaly in American reproductive history like watching a golf ball work its way through a garden hose. At the end of World War II, Americans came…
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The term “spring cleaning” can have a presumptive meaning for those that endure inclement weather during the winter months. Spring cleaning can connote many things,but one can infer it’s a time for a fresh start and a breath of fresh air. For those in the northern climates where the weather has been cold for many…
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As the plunger in the syringe slowly pushes the liquid into his veins, he gradually stops breathing. The pain of the last few weeks has drifted off with his last breath, so imperceptible I hadn’t noticed it. I just stare at the plunger waiting for some reaction from Max that this fluid of death has…
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