How Personalized Funerals Help Families Tell Their Stories
There was once a time when funeral directors handled the entire process of death planning — preparing the deceased’s body, planning the service, performing it, and ensuring the deceased was properly laid to rest.
Guiding Our Future: The Importance of Mentoring New Funeral Professionals
As funeral professionals, we provide one of the most essential services in a community. We act as a link between the deceased and their loved ones, ensuring the wishes of both parties are respected during one of the hardest life events for most people.
Death Companionship for End-Of-Life Professionals
Death companionship may seem like a new field in the funeral industry with its recent boom in popularity, but the reality is that it has been a fundamental calling throughout history. Every culture has had its own ways of guiding and supporting our loved ones at the end of their lives.
Wellness Care for Funeral Directors
You can find a great many sources to discuss the new challenges of providing services as a funeral director during the current pandemic. The challenges are high.
Holding Space and What It Means for Funeral Directors
Holding space is a term we have been hearing a lot more lately that is often discussed in end-of-life care, but it is also extremely important for those with careers in the funeral service industry to understand.
The Importance of a Degree in Funeral Service Management
Funeral service management is a fulfilling and important career path. Those who work in this field have the privilege of helping families in grief while paying tribute to those who have departed. Many who enter into this profession feel a sense of duty to the departed, making certain that their last wishes for placement and memorialization are honored.
Student Services | Improving Your Ability to Succeed
Student support services are (or should be) robust and welcoming in any higher education environment. College schedules are purposely rigorous. You need to be prepared for the work ahead and the completion of your degree is an achievement to be proud of.
Top Five Reasons to Study Mortuary Science
A career in funeral services is not right for everyone. But, if you really want to be of service to people during some of their most trying times, and you want a career where you can make a profound difference, a mortuary science education might be the best investment you could make in yourself.
