Who can resist Saturday morning cartoons? Come laugh and learn at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 21 at the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association’s (ICCFA) annual convention in Las Vegas, NV. At that time, Certified Thanatologist Gail Rubin will present “Lessons on Grief and Mourning in Cartoons.” Here’s the ICCFA conference website. Animated movies […] via Tumblr Lessons on Grief and Mourning in Cartoons
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Since 2011, The Newly-Dead Game® has been a feature of the wild and wacky Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival. At the 2018 event, four different couples competed in three sessions of the game. The Newly-Dead Game® tests how well couples know their partners’ last wishes. Each session takes about 20 minutes to complete with four […] via Tumblr Couples Focus on Winning The Newly-Dead Game This Close to Home cartoon helps raise awareness of green burial. The casket is a green color, with grass and flowers sprouting from the sides and lid. A woman comments, “The casket is made out of sod to be 100 percent environmentally friendly.” It’s an appropriate cartoon for the first day of spring! I’ve seen […] via Tumblr Death Cartoon: Green Burial with a Sod Casket The market for pet funerals, cremations, and burial is characterized as the fastest-growing segment of the US funeral industry. In a recent report by the Pet Loss Professionals Association, as many as 1.9 million pets were mourned with a funeral service – with the vast number of those pets being cremated. EternityGardens.com, a technology platform […] via Tumblr Ease Pet Loss Issues with EternityGardens.com Who can resist Saturday morning cartoons? Come laugh and learn at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 21 at the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association’s (ICCFA) annual convention in Las Vegas, NV. At that time, Certified Thanatologist Gail Rubin will present “Lessons on Grief and Mourning in Cartoons.” Here’s the ICCFA conference website. Animated movies […] via Tumblr Lessons on Grief and Mourning in Cartoons On this episode the FN Boys talk with the young lady who is quickly becoming the future face of embalming. With her new techniques she is completely changing what happens in the prep room. Also, in the WTF segment we look at low, low, low budget cremation – coming to a backyard near you. The post MEET THE FUTURE OF EMBALMING | FUNERAL nation 107 appeared first on Connecting Directors. MEET THE FUTURE OF EMBALMING | FUNERAL nation 107 published first on YouTube via Tumblr MEET THE FUTURE OF EMBALMING | FUNERAL nation 107 Additional Seats Available for Homesteaders Strategic Business Management Class in Florida3/26/2018 West Des Moines, Iowa — Homesteaders Life Company is pleased to offer additional seats for its 4th annual Certificate in Strategic Business Management class, offered in conjunction with Drake University. The class will take place May 1-4, 2018, at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. This invaluable four-day course features exclusive information few other events can offer in one sitting. Funeral home owners, managers and candidates for succession can expect to learn: Strategy and Business Processes Financial and Legal Strategies Marketing for the Future Business Valuation and Succession Planning Plus, all attendees will experience an exclusive trip to The Villages, a large retirement community, which features Hiers-Baxley Funeral & Cremation and their accompanying Life Event Center. Register today before remaining seats fill up. Learn more about an exclusive early bird special at homesteaderslife.com/drake. Homesteaders Life Company, a mutual company owned by its policy holders, is a national leader providing products and services to promote and support the funding of advance funeral planning and end-of-life expenses. The post Additional Seats Available for Homesteaders’ Strategic Business Management Class in Florida appeared first on Connecting Directors. Additional Seats Available for Homesteaders’ Strategic Business Management Class in Florida published first on YouTube via Tumblr Additional Seats Available for Homesteaders’ Strategic Business Management Class in Florida At GFG Towers we do like a good book, and recently we have indulged our book buying habit rather a lot – a pile of our recent acquisitions is shown above, all thoroughly well worth a read for anyone with an interest in dying and death. Last week, our attention was drawn to another recently published book, written by a celebrant, entitled ‘HOW TO HAVE THE FUNERAL SERVICE YOU WANT..? ‘And How A Celebrant Can Help’. Sounds interesting, we thought. And according to a couple of fulsome 5 star reviews on Amazon, it’s just the ticket. But it’s not great. It’s not even good. How can we put this without sounding rude? It’s dreadful. One of the first duties of a celebrant charged with the responsibility of writing a funeral ceremony for a bereaved family has to be accuracy – of content, spelling, grammar and syntax. So it is surely not unreasonable to expect that a book written by a celebrant about celebrancy should be a shining example of the beautiful use of language. This one isn’t. We’d love to show some examples of Ms Mewton’s work, of ‘grief’ and ‘funeral’ being spelled wrongly, for instance (pages 5 and 50) or of the frequency of unnecessary capital letters throughout sentences, the direct excerpts taken from the Death Cafe website and the frequent references to the opportunity to purchase her helpful Funeral Ceremony Wishes Planner, (also variously referred to as ‘Funeral Ceremony Wishes plan’, ‘Funeral Ceremony Wishes Plan’, ‘Funeral Ceremony Life Plan’ and ‘my visiting Funeral Ceremony Wishes planning service’) – but there is a stern warning at the front of the book prohibiting reproduction of any part of the publication. And we’re not keen on being sued. We did, however, notice a fairly corruscating 1 star review of the book on Amazon which ends: ‘If I were a celebrant (or a Celebrant, as the author bestows the word a capital ‘C’ throughout the book, perhaps to emphasise how Very Important the role is) I would urgently be seeking a new job description. And if I were someone seeking guidance and advice ‘to help me have the funeral service I want’, I’d feel cheated.’ We found this review helpful. And told Amazon so.
Something for the weekend? Some good reading – and another book. published first on YouTube via Tumblr Something for the weekend? Some good reading – and another book. Since 2011, The Newly-Dead Game® has been a feature of the wild and wacky Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival. At the 2018 event, four different couples competed in three sessions of the game. The Newly-Dead Game® tests how well couples know their partners’ last wishes. Each session takes about 20 minutes to complete with four […] via Tumblr Couples Focus on Winning The Newly-Dead Game Many funeral directors and deathcare marketers are missing major opportunities to embrace the power of Facebook strictly because of stubbornness. They say things like ‘F’ Facebook – I’m not paying for Facebook ads when Facebook is supposed to be free’. What is really being said is ‘I’m throwing a fit and I’m holding back my business because I’m missing out on grabbing the most under-priced attention I’m ever going to be able to get’. In this 60 sec clip, Ryan discusses the ignorance and danger in saying ‘F’ Facebook. ——————————————————-- DISRUPT60 is a weekly one minute marketing rant on topics that are insanely timely and thought-provoking. The post The Ignorance of saying !@$% FACEBOOK! | DISRUPT60 Episode 001 appeared first on Connecting Directors. The Ignorance of saying !@$% FACEBOOK! | DISRUPT60 Episode 001 published first on YouTube via Tumblr The Ignorance of saying !@$% FACEBOOK! | DISRUPT60 Episode 001 |
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