The funeral business is down and the stats prove it. Most significantly the number of Funeral Homes is declining. This can work to the funeral consumers advantage. But because Funeral homes are raising prices funeral cost can be a problem.
The number of Funeral Homes i indicates a funeral industry decline. The funeral rule gives the Funeral Consumer a way to the lower cost funeral
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The lower cost funeral is king in Memphis, Tn-Not Elvis.This is according to the local business journal, commercial appeal.com. This is simply another indication of traditional funeral industry decline.
“Proving that not even death is recession proof, Tacker’s business has taken a hit as customers become more frugal in burying their loved ones.
He estimates his clients are spending about 15 percent less on funerals.
Revenue for funeral homes across the nation is down, as people choose less-expensive caskets, opt more often for cremation and cut back on viewing times and wakes, according to a report by the National Funeral Directors Association.
It’s similar to what privately owned Memphis-area funeral homes are seeing.
The room where Tacker and his wife, Cindy, showcase their casket selection at the Stage Road funeral home, doesn’t get many visitors these days.
“Almost nobody wants to go into the selection room and pick a casket,” Cindy Tacker said.
Many customers are instead choosing alternative containers, which are made of anything from unfinished wood to cardboard, and run about $85 compared to a casket starting at around $1,000.”via www.commercialappeal.com
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A new book out by a Canadian correlates the decline in the traditional “American” Funeral Industry with the decline of religion in America. There is validity and truth to this argument. Although most of America calls itself Christian, baby boomers seem to need their church less and less.
And now the same seems to be true for the traditional funeral industry:
“The death of God during the 1960s (obit pending) was almost as hard on the North American funeral industry as it was on the Christian church.
As Tom Jokinen points out in his lively and literate new book Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training, “The big, fat-sucking spiritual void that a death creates used to be filled by the redemptive magic of religion: pray over the body, sing the body into the ground, mark the casket with the sign of the cross. … All the sacred customs were ways to signal to one another that we’re not alone, that there’s continuity even in death … that God had a plan, even if His blueprints were impossible to read.”via www.theglobeandmail.com
Take God out of the picture, the writer says, and the sucking void is still there.
And so is the funeral industry, which itself is sucking harder these days as it attempts feverishly to adjust its practices to 75 million Baby Boomers, stiffs-in-waiting who, in their absence of belief, are (in the words of the old joke), “all dressed up with no place to go.”
To say that God is dead may be a tad bit extreme. To say that the decline of Religion in America (along with traditional funeral rituals) has contributed to the demise of the traditional funeral industry is not a stretch.
It is also a reason for folks seeking to pay less funeral cost- traditional funeral services vs lower cost funeral-
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The Funeral Home that cremated the wrong body is to have No more cremations, until there is a hearing on the matter. This is a horrible situation in death care and the funeral business(industry).
This all happened in Tennessee.
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The National Funeral Directors Association(NFDA) has recently been acting anti Funeral Consumer. A few years ago they released funeral information to the general public. In recent years they have been slowly leaking this information out to the press. They have been stepping up efforts in Helping Funeral Directors get more of Your Money.
Sky Has Fallen on Traditional Funerals According to the NFDA. Stats are from a web survey from a year ago!
The graphic is from 2008 information release to the press recently.
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If the Funeral Industry does not change it’s business model-the end will come.
graphic credit www.ivpressonline.com
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