After every convention I attend I like to spend a little time afterwards reflecting on the experience. I try to look at the experience as both an exhibitor and also as just a normal attendee. I must say that this years NFDA convention in Boston was a huge success, not only forConnectingDirectors.com, and myself but [...]
Posts Tagged ‘National Funeral Directors Association’
16 Nov
Burial Incidents Prompt Army Probe of Arlington Cemetery
The Army ordered an investigation Friday into operations at Arlington National Cemetery after questions about apparently improper burials. Army Secretary John McHugh said in a statement that the service’s inspector general will look into what he said was “lost accountability” of some graves, as well as poor record-keeping and other issues at the cemetery, the [...]
9 Nov
Video: Evolution of The Obituary By: Jeff Taylor
At the 2009 NFDA Convention Jeff Taylor (monster.com, and Tributes.com) gave a presentation titled “The Evolution of The Obituary”. I really wanted to attend the presentation but was unable to. Luckily for all of us who couldn’t make it, Robin Heppell recorded the presentation and has uploaded it to FuneralFuturist.com. I watched the presentation last night [...]
5 Nov
Hey Walmart, Selling Caskets Online Is Nothing New!
Walmart is not reinventing the wheel. Selling caskets online is nothing new. Companies have being doing it for years. Of course, no one else is as big as Walmart though. Besides the fact that Walmart is huge and has a client base of over 300 million people, the casket game is kinda stacked against them. [...]
29 Sep
Compost in the Sky: Eco-Friendly Burials Trend Include Liquid Nitrogen, Pine Boxes
Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. If it were that simple, then funeral parlors wouldn’t have so much work to do. There is a lot involved preparing a loved one for their final resting place. With a world population closing in on 7 billion, that means there could be around 7 billion dead in the [...]
24 Sep
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush Unveils The Bereaved Consumers Protection Act
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush unveiled legislation today that would expand the powers of the federal government by creating a new level of oversight for cemeteries to prevent the kind of abuses seen at Burr Oak Cemetery and to others. The Bereaved Consumers Protection Act would force cemetery directors to bolster their record keeping and make [...]
24 Sep
Open-Door Morgue Leaves Bodies Up For Grabs
AUSTRALIA – SECURITY at one of Sydney’s biggest hospitals is so lax that anyone can walk into the morgue and claim a body without showing identification, prompting fears that corpses could be wrongly removed or defiled. Undertakers have blasted Royal North Shore Hospital for its cavalier attitude to security, saying it showed management had ”integrity [...]
2 Sep
Funeral Directors: Track Swine Flu Outbreaks in Your Area
While we wait for scientists to perfect a vaccine for the H1N1 virus, researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and the MIT Media Lab have offered up a helpful tool in our arsenal against the flu: the Outbreaks Near Me iPhone app, which allows users to report and track infectious disease outbreaks as they happen. Read [...]
22 Jul
The Quality of Death, End of Life Care in America: Inside Out
The following is an audio documentary done by WBUR in Boston. Though I have not been able to listen to the documentary in its entirety, what I have been able to listen to has been excellent. In this new documentary about end of life care in America special correspondent Rachel Gotbaum investigates what prevents many [...]
13 Jul
Free One-Day Expo Only Pass to The NFDA Convention 2009
That’s right, NFDA and ConnectingDirectors.com are offering you a free expo only one-day pass to this year’s NFDA Convention in Boston, MA October 25-28. Please follow the link below to download and print the registration form. You have until July 31, 2009 to turn in your registration form, after July 31st the registration fee rises [...]
