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Image via Wikipedia A  Southwest Airlines pilot has held  a plane for murder victims family. This is a remarkable act of kindness showing respect for a grieving family This is the kind of thing that is good to report. Your Funeral Guy Blog welcomes positive reports on death dying and and funerals It sad to report that this murder happened in Tuscon in light of  the recent events of the Tuscon Shootings. Last night, my husband and I got the tragic news that our three-year-old grandson in... Read Full Story

a look inside a crematory Image via Wikepidia Wikipedia There is a video here that shows why you should shop around for a  cremation and  NOT pay a high price for a cremation at a Service Corporation International Funeral Home or any other Funeral Home. Cremation costs can vary dramatically. $2400+ is way to much to pay for a direct cremation. In any Metropolitan area it is not hard to fnd reasonable cremation costs. Most cremations cost a funeral home about $200 Dollars... Read Full Story

Cremation costs can vary by thousands of dollars. This is is an important factor when considering funeral costs and cremations costs. We have addressed this subject in several places before,-it is important to address this subject again. You can view a video on this with more info here . As with funeral cost, and cremation cost- it is very important to shop around. The remains were brought to the cremation center at Sunland Memorial Park in Sun City. Dickson was quoted a price of $2... Read Full Story

Image by Getty Images via @daylife A former Funeral Director in Michigan has been charged with defrauding Customers. In this case The director not only hurt the families that bought preneed or prepaid policies he also hurt the former business owner of the Funeral Home. This serves as a warning to those who want to exit the funeral industry and the need to check out who and how they dispose of their business. Mr. Prochnow had purchased the business portion of the Bennett... Read Full Story

Image via CrunchBase Amazon.com stepped up it’s selling to the Funeral Industry after October 2009 when it was revealed that WallMart was selling Caskets on line. The Fact that Amazon has a contract with an online casket provider for 67% off the list price of many caskets, points to the fact that the markup on caskets can be  300% or more. Not all funeral homes do this, there are lower cost funeral homes  and online casket providers where the markup is much less. This supports what... Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia Here is the video of Barach Obama’s Speech At the Memorial Service in Tuscon Arizona. Obama did a great job here as as  Comforter in Chief or  Griever in Chief. However what is quite scary here is that the students present did not seem to understand that a memorial service was going on or the purpose of the event. Obama did refrain from political rhetoric in this speech. The occasion a memorial service for a national tragedy should be above politics. The... Read Full Story

Crematory Image via Wikipedia  Funeral Directors are providing online chat in Canada where a Funeral director can answer your questions.They are also providing a lower cost funeral service. Ever had a question about caskets or cremation but were afraid to ask? Walking into a funeral home to plan a loved one’s service can be a traumatic experience for grieving relatives. A new offering from a Mississauga-based online discount funeral company aims to make the experience easier to handle... Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia There has been an article on Ten Companies Controlling the Funeral Industry. What is interesting in the article are the Newcomers Wall Mart and Amazon .com These companies have only entered the funeral industry in the last several  of years. This is an indication of traditional Funeral industry decline and the desire of folks to pay less in funeral cost. Here is a summary of the funeral business from the Article The death industry is a tale of two economies... Read Full Story

New Melleray Abbety Image via Wikipedia Trappist monks supplied a Casket for the Arizona Shooting victim Christina- Taylor Green. This is outside the realm of the traditional Casket Providers like Batesville or York Caskets. The Funeral was a private affair and the company Providing the Casket was Trappist Caskets-The Funeral was private and the media was not involved. The casket for 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green , the youngest of six victims gunned down in the attack on Rep... Read Full Story

Jon and Sophie were high school sweethearts. They got married, moved west for better jobs, had 2 children, a nice life. They were nice people. Sophie lived just long enough to see her first grandchild. At the age of 47, Sophie discovered a lump in her breast. It took 3 years for her to die. Through the pain and sickness of endless surgeries and chemo and radiation treatments, she made finding a cure for cancer her cause. Sophie campaigned endlessly for money for cancer research. She started... Read Full Story