Six Blind Funeral Directors – Third Installment

Six Blind Funeral Directors - Third Installment In our prior two installments we looked at our future from a theoretical perspective and a rational perspective.  This installment we will focus on a contextual perspective. A Contextual Approach To The Future  A study of the evolution of contemporary American DeathCare beginning in 1850 suggests that our [...]

By |2023-05-18T14:25:48-04:00May 22nd, 2023|Blog, CUSTOMERS: Getting and Keeping Them|0 Comments

Six Blind Funeral Directors Describe Our Future

Six Blind Funeral Directors Describe Our Future Chapter 1 The Theory of DeathCare We are all familiar with the parable of the six blind men describing an elephant.  As we struggle with imagining the future of funeral service a survey of trade journal articles and convention agendas can’t help but bring this parable to mind.  [...]

Obituaries and Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence - Doing more efficiently that which is already done poorly. It's all the buzz - Artificial Intelligence. Of course the excitable "hand wringers" among us are already speculating about its disruptive potential. Perhaps this time they are right.  It remains to be seen. AI's first toehold is in the writing of obituaries. Feeling, [...]

By |2023-04-10T11:17:09-04:00April 10th, 2023|Blog, CUSTOMERS: Getting and Keeping Them|2 Comments

End of Watch

End of Watch As I write this it is July 27, 2020 and so far this year more than 140 police officers have sacrificed their lives for you and for me. 19 so far in July alone. Yet, the mainstream media excoriates them for doing their job. Demonstrators humiliate and physically assault and even murder [...]

By |2020-07-27T14:27:34-04:00July 27th, 2020|General Topics, Uncategorized|2 Comments

Covid – 19 and The Reinvention of Spring Burials

Covid - 19 and The Reinvention of Spring Burials Talking with funeral directors across the nation and Canada I am hearing (as you are experiencing) that you are busy but the services are mostly abbreviated or direct. So your revenue is deeply affected. Many wonder what funeral service will be like after we struggle to return [...]

Creedy Not Bloodless After All

Blood Drives...Something You Can Do During the Pandemic Well there is a picture you can't unsee. Me giving blood at Pierce Jefferson Funeral Home in Greensboro. A few weeks ago I suggested to some of my clients they hold a blood drive. Several of them took me up on it. The first was Danny Jefferson [...]

Callaway – Jones Stay At Home Arrangements Helper

Callaway Jones Funeral offers "Stay At Home" Arrangement Helper. My friend, Cody Jones, of Callaway - Jones Funeral Home is offering a guide for his customers to prepare for arrangement conferences, sign documents and make choices.  He has given permission to share it.  click on the link below. And while you are there explore his [...]

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