One of my techie friends told me recently that the term “Home Funerals” is the second most searched term relating to funerals on the internet. AHEAD OF CREMATION, which is third.
As many of you know it has been my observation that almost all of the innovation in our profession for the past 15 years has only been an introduction of a practice we abandoned more than 80 years ago. Here is a great example:
This past week my friend, Ernie Heffner, shared a link to a new website focusing on Home Funerals. Before you click on the link let me draw your attention to new terms introduced into the lexicon: “Home Funeral Guide” and Death Midwife. Not so sure the latter will catch on. Any way home funerals are part of the growing trend. How big a part I am not sure. But, like Green Burial, it is sure to be a part. Funeral Homes, buildings dedicated to funerals, sprang up because the industrial era introduced a trend that reduced the size of most homes to the extent that they were no longer suitable for visitations. Today many homes (my mother called them McMansions) are more suitable than the local funeral home.
awhile back Todd Van Beck wrote a great article about this movement. hope it can be referenced here for all to read.
benjie, would love to reference it. can you find it?
Alan,
sorry to be late responding…found it at Todd’s blog on the ICCFA website. The article is titled “Good Intentions” and written as only Todd could!