When a loved one dies at 2:00 a.m. and a family member calls a funeral home, who answers the phone at that hour? While some funeral directors answer the phone themselves 24/7, in many cases, a midnight call will be taken by an answering service. In this interview with Kathy Kelley with ASD, the Answering Service for […] via Tumblr Video: How Answering Services Help Funeral Directors
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Earlier this month, the funeralOne team was down in Nashville, Tennessee for the annual International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association (ICCFA) conference! Not only is ICCFA one of our favorite events of the year because we get to meet with amazing funeral professionals from all over the world, but it also brings together some of […] Continue reading How To Turn Millennials Into The Best Funeral Home Employees Ever on funeralOne Blog. How To Turn Millennials Into The Best Funeral Home Employees Ever published first on YouTube via Tumblr How To Turn Millennials Into The Best Funeral Home Employees Ever Last year’s awards ceremony in central London It’s that time of year again – nominations open today for this year’s Good Funeral Awards, the Oscars of the death trade. Since 2012, the Good Funeral Awards have been celebrating excellence in the funeral world and have championed the pioneers, the bold and the brave, as well as the under-sung hard workers behind the scenes. Last year there was an unprecedented number of entries, and the awards were presented at a glittering lunchtime ceremony attended by hundreds of people from across the country. Coverage of the event in the media was overwhelmingly positive, see a piece in The Independent here and an article in The Guardian here, with national and local newspapers and radio stations all fascinated by something that journalists perceive as peculiar, but that we feel is richly deserved – recognition of outstanding work by those involved in caring for the dying, dead or bereaved. Once again, there is an opportunity to nominate anyone who you feel deserves recognition or appreciation for their work in what is often a much misunderstood or maligned industry, or to enter yourself or the company you work for. To enter for an award, simply go to the Good Funeral Awards website and you will find the entry form at the foot of the ‘Nominate’ page. Download it, complete it and send it in along with the entry fee* if applicable. Every entry is carefully considered before The Long List is published in August. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony in September. To nominate a person or company, please write to the organisers at [email protected] and tell us why you feel they deserve to be a winner. Please ensure that you include their contact details including their e-mail address, and the category you would like to nominate them under. All nominees will be contacted and invited to submit an official entry in the category they feel most appropriate, along with the entry fee* if applicable. *The entry fee applicable to most categories is intended to help save the organisers from sinking under the weight of administering over 600 nominations and associated entries. If you want to nominate someone and pay the entry fee for them that’s absolutely fine, this happened quite a lot last year and nominees were both touched and very grateful. You have plenty of time, nominations close in July. And tickets aren’t yet on sale for the awards ceremony. But you know what they say about the early bird. This year’s categories are listed below. Aficionados of the Good Funeral Awards will notice a few new titles – we’ve tried to reflect the changes we are seeing in the world of funerals and to make sure that there’s a category for everyone. The 2017 Category List
2017 Death Oscar anyone? published first on YouTube via Tumblr 2017 Death Oscar anyone? Wout Brink came from the Netherlands to show his brilliant idea to folks at the ICCFA convention. His TOLAD aluminum walking stick doubles as an urn that discreetly scatters ashes over the course of a one-mile memorial hike. In the video below, he demonstrates how it works. TOLAD stands for Totem Of Life And Death. Every time […] via Tumblr Video: Discreetly Scatter Ashes with Walking Stick Urn Grief Works is a collection of beautifully written stories of the many clients Julia Samuel has dealt with in 25 years of working with grief. She writes about how she’s helped people to deal with the deaths of their parents, partners, siblings and children and face their own mortality. Britain is awash with grief counsellors working from outdated models of grief. Thinking has moved on since Kübler-Ross’ five stages of grief so it’s refreshing to hear Julia’s positive, refreshing and flexible approach to dealing with death in our stiff-upper-lip society. There’s a chapter about how we got into this state – from the Victorians who were brilliant at dealing with death but terrible with sex, to the generation of post-war children who learnt to suppress their grief and kept it tightly inside. Keep calm and carry on. Julia Samuel has been a grief psychotherapist for the last 25 years, dealing with people in the throes of grief in the NHS at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington and in private practice. She’s also the founder of Child Bereavement UK. The way she talks to her clients, her flexible approach, her understanding that loss is terrifyingly complicated and affects everyone differently; it’s all music to our ears. We heard Julia talking on a panel at the Southbank Centre during the recent ‘How do we live with death?’ weekend. “Grief is messy, chaotic and dark,” she told the audience before telling us that her way of coping with the intensity of her work is to have fun, kickbox and only watch funny films. Grief Works is a brilliant reminder that there can be a life after death. We highly recommend it as the book to read to have a better understanding of grief and learn a healthier way of dealing with it. Read it, weep and learn. Grief Works Read this and weep published first on YouTube via Tumblr Read this and weep Delta Kappa Gamma, the International Society for Key Women Educators, is holding its Theta State convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 28 through 30, 2017. On Saturday, April 29 at 3:45 p.m., Gail Rubin will present “Keys to Downsize and Organize Your Life.” Here is the description of the 45-minute talk: You don’t have to be […] via Tumblr April 29: Downsizing Talk to Delta Kappa Gamma Last week, the funeralOne team was down in Nashville, Tennessee for the annual International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association (ICCFA) conference! Not only is ICCFA one of our favorite events of the year because we get to meet with amazing funeral professionals from all over the world, but it also brings together some of the […] Continue reading Dr. Jason Troyer Shares Tips For Engaging Families & Community Partners on funeralOne Blog. Dr. Jason Troyer Shares Tips For Engaging Families & Community Partners published first on YouTube via Tumblr Dr. Jason Troyer Shares Tips For Engaging Families & Community Partners One of the issues with a Viking funeral is that your friends may not want to join you on the burning boat, as this Pearls Before Swine cartoon illustrates. Actually, the Hollywood vision of a Viking funeral isn’t historically accurate. Read this post, Funeral Films: The Viking Funeral, for a survey of Viking funerals on […] via Tumblr Viking Funeral Death Cartoon The 2017 Frozen Dead Guy Days festival was another huge success! More than 20,000 people flooded the streets of Nederland, Colorado for this crazy celebration of the dead and the frozen. We had more than a thousand people, a 25% increase over last year’s number, who came to see the documentary “Grandpa’s in the TUFF Shed” and […] via Tumblr Fun News About Funerals – Really Last week, the funeralOne team was down in Nashville, Tennessee for the annual International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association (ICCFA) conference! Not only is ICCFA one of our favorite events of the year because we get to meet with amazing funeral professionals from all over the world, but it also brings together some of the […] Continue reading Opening The Door To The Passed: Exclusive ICCFA Interview with Allison Gilbert on funeralOne Blog. Opening The Door To The Passed: Exclusive ICCFA Interview with Allison Gilbert published first on YouTube via Tumblr Opening The Door To The Passed: Exclusive ICCFA Interview with Allison Gilbert |
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