I’m all good with pre-planning your own funeral, but this is going to the extreme: Remember Coffin Academy, the self-help retreat in South Korea that lets you simulate your own death to be born into a new life? Nightline reporter Clarissa Ward went through the controversial seminar, which has participants write their wills, imagine saying [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pre-planning’
18 Mar
OPINION SHAPER: Why Does a Funeral Draw so Many While an Actual Life Draws So Few?
I was sent a link to this article through Twiiter (@ryanthogmartin). After reading it I thought it was a great article and poses a question many of us have asked before. I would love to get your opinion as well, so please share below in the comments. Someone dear to us died last year. She [...]
16 Mar
When I Die, Make It a Skittles Celebration!
Being at a funeral industry convention and looking at all of the new and innovative product can sometimes get your mind thinking about your funeral and what it will be like. What really gets your mind thinking about your funeral is when you have the authors of the nationally recognized book: “Grave Expectations – Planning [...]
23 Feb
The Importance Of Having A Funeral Director
When a person we love dies so suddenly, our initial emotional responses would be shock and disbelief. Usually, it is very tough to accept the demise of a loved one. Then, when the disbelief has worn off, it is replaced by deep anguish. With the deep anguish, it can be very difficult to make sound [...]
17 Feb
Audit of Funeral Company Reveals $22.6M Problem
Five years after accusing former Gov. John Waihee and others of illegally diverting tens of millions of dollars from funeral home trust accounts, the state attorney general is poised to try to collect the money. “They want scapegoats and a former governor is a good target,” said David Minkin, one of the lawyers representing Waihee [...]
11 Feb
Funeral Industry – Is Your Pre-Need Person Well Prepared?
Many times, in the funeral homes I deal with, the pre-need sales person is totally unprepared. They themselves sometimes don’t even know it. They go into a clients home and they think they are making arrangements and showing the family everything the firm has to offer. When in all truth the material they have is [...]
1 Dec
State Warns Consumers of Prepaid Funeral Scams
Five years after Florence Muto prepaid for a funeral in 2004, the 92-year-old from Westland is out the $6,000 she paid for the plan. Muto was part of a group of 60 families authorities say were scammed by the owners of the now-closed Ziomek Funeral Home in Livonia between 1998 and 2007. Problems with prepaid [...]
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. [...]
5 Nov
Smugglers In Iraq Have A New Trade: Corpses
Iraqi and U.S. officials have expressed concerns about the traffic of weapons and drugs across the country’s porous borders, but there is also an older and more surprising commodity being smuggled into Iraq — cadavers. For centuries, Shiite Muslims from all over the world have sought to be buried in what might be the world’s [...]
16 Oct
Funeral Home Operators Charged… Stealing From Preneed
LIVONIA, Mich. — Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced Wednesday charges against two funeral home operators. Christopher and Nancy Ziomek, both 54 years old and from Canton Township, are accused of taking money for prepaid funerals at their Livonia funeral home on Wayne Road and putting it to personal use. Each has been charged with [...]
