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Preneed Planning Symposium

Join us for a FREE virtual event on May 8 from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST. Preneed Planning Symposium 2024, a virtual event designed for professionals eager to lead in preneed services. This symposium is your opportunity to refine your offerings, discover the latest trends, expand your network, and access valuable resources, all from the comfort of your home or office. Engage with top experts, understand the evolving needs of your clients, and harness the power of digital advancements and legal insights to elevate your practice. Join us to become a trendsetter in meeting the changing needs of today's families. Secure your spot today!

We're looking for the next generation of standout funeral directors. Do you know a mortuary student who shows special drive and promise? Someone poised to become a leader in the field? If you do, now's the time to nominate him or her for American Funeral Director's Ones to Watch.

Scenario: Kirkpatrick Funeral & Cremation Services consists of multiple locations in the southern United States. Duncan Kirkpatrick started the business with a single location 20 years ago…

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Jim Price’s Lasting Impact

Just mention the 75-year-old’s name, and you’ll likely hear, “Jim has an eye for innovation and has always been willing to test new ideas and strategies.”

American Funeral Director's Innovators 2023

Funeral service is filled with extraordinary businesses. The name of a business, though, only begins to tell its story. Behind the names are talented, passionate and dedicated individuals helping that business succeed. Meet the innovators who are making their mark in funeral service today, tomorrow and beyond.

It’s a simple question posed in a simple lyric by a California songwriter and psychologist named John Astin. The answer, that makes up the bulk of the rest of the lyrics as well as the song’s title:

Some small attention to detail or lack thereof can be the difference between being entrusted with a family’s care for generations or someone logging onto Yelp for the first and only time just …

In San Antonio, 17 Black soldiers, wrongly convicted of mutiny, murder, and assault in a hasty 1917 military proceeding, were given new headstones at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. Th…

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Visions of Honor

The ABMC overseas 26 permanent burial grounds and 31 memorials or monuments located on foreign soil as well as four memorials in the United State.

American Cemetery & Cremation Innovators 2023

Funeral service is filled with extraordinary businesses. The name of a business, though, only begins to tell its story. Behind the names are talented, passionate and dedicated individuals helping that business succeed. Meet the innovators who are making their mark in death care today, tomorrow and beyond.

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When the Kates-Boylston Funeral Service Business Plan Conference kicks off in June, experts from all facets of the profession will be on hand to offer insight on rising trends in funeral service and to offer guidance for dealing with this rapidly changing business landscape. In this continui…

The Dalton, Massachusetts, Board of Health ratified green burial guidelines during its recent meeting, essentially adopting national guidelines banning those who have died from diseases gleane…

Albuquerque-based death educator Gail Rubin received the Community Educator Award from the Association for Death Education and Counseling during the organization’s annual conference in Houston…