My First Funeral Industry Blog
Last month, I expressed my frustration about how hard it is to find the ten most popular blogs for a given topic. I happened to use the funeral industry as an example. Today, Mel Pennington emailed me. He’s a funeral director, embalmer and blogger. He’s just started a blog, and there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of funeral-related entries, but give him time. I do note, with a slightly-worrying irony, that when I click on ‘Play’ in his blog’s navigation bar, you get this funeral home (which is a great-looking site, though they should lose the music). I’m sure it’s just a temporary issues. I shouldn’t cast aspersions, because my site’s been full of Latin text for months.
UPDATE: I was linking to the wrong blog there. Thanks to BT for sorting me out.
June 16th, 2005 at 7:50 am
Well, here’s a funeral blog oriented towards the profession. I haven’t found an audience as yet, so the posts are minimal but they each relate specifically to funeral service.
BT
June 16th, 2005 at 7:53 am
Sorry, didn’t post that the way I wanted to.
http://funeralwords.blogs.com/funeral_words/
That’s the URL. I’m still getting used to blogging. As you already know, we don’t do very much of it in our profession.
BT
October 22nd, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Here is a funeral industry daily blog…
http://finalembrace.wordpress.com/
Regards, Thomas
March 10th, 2007 at 10:52 am
This is the funeral blog that I have on the Web. Enjoy the knowledge shared there. For the public to learn more.
Regards, Betty
March 10th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Well the link doesn’t show, it was just
hyper linked to my name in the first post. Show in case one might not know that it does that - the url is
http://funeralcasket.blogspot.com/
Thanks, BB
ps. second name hotlink is now my own website. A Team Masters
March 20th, 2007 at 7:40 am
Test - I failed the challange last time, so want to test this before I post a longer message!
March 20th, 2007 at 7:41 am
Ah, the answer is green (I put grey). Anyway, I own a large site and this blog may be of interest to my visitors. Please get in touch so we can exchange links.
Regards,
Ian
April 16th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Eventually, a blog on the funeral industry!
May 15th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Hey, Mel Pennington. Lose the music. Anybody who has background music on their website should be socked in the mouth. And while you’re at it, lose all the stuff about you and your staff and your facility, etc. Funeral service is not about you. It’s about the life of the person who died. Your website may be pretty but it’s pretty antiquated.
May 15th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
And, Mel, while you’re at it check out http://www.lifestorynet.com. Those guys know what funeral service is about today. It’s about life, not death. It’s about preserving stories and memories. It’s about the human connection and the human heart. Think about it and leap into the future. Life Story Funeral Homes are where it’s at.
May 17th, 2007 at 6:43 am
Ruffalo,
Not sure what you are referring to when you mention that our site is antequated or that we don’t celebrate life. We actually were the first in our state to do just that?
June 1st, 2007 at 7:34 am
Darren, thank you for your call for Funeral Blogs. Although this is a couple of years after your original post, I have two to inform you about. http://www.fromthehep.com is my personal blog to convey information and tutorials to funeral professionals. The second one is http://yourfuneralchapel.blogspot.com and is a Virtual Funeral Home that I can use to show funeral directors how to use a blog to help promote themselves.
June 2nd, 2007 at 12:40 pm
check out my funky funeral, it has a cool blog about funeral changes and trends as well as loads of information about songs, poems etc
http://www.myfunkyfuneral.com/
June 9th, 2007 at 9:23 am
We’ve had a blog on end-of-life issue for some time now. Having spent nearly 40 years in the traditional funeral business, our president made the decision to go online only as that aspect of our company began to grow. We started a blog to help educate consumers on important caregiving and funeral planning issues.
July 27th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Our company, Buy and Sell Cemetery Plots (http://www.buyandsellcemeteryplots.com/) has just started a blog to help inform people why it is important to pre-plan funeral services and their need for a cemetery plot. Our blog is located at http://buyandsellcemeteryplots.wordpress.com. We welcome all comments, questions, or suggestions.
August 15th, 2007 at 5:32 am
I started a new blog dedicated to helping funeral service professionals with tips and tricks to a better, more profitable business.
August 15th, 2007 at 5:32 am
http://chandlerscorner.vox.com/
August 15th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Where can I find pre-formatted funeral service invoices online specific to Georgia?
September 6th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Greetings -
here is a site with a different perspective that has a blog about alternative ideas for funeral planning.
“never know when you need an idea”
http://www.funeralideas.com
October 21st, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Here is great new Networking site for funeral directors, embalmer, mortuary college students, and any funeral professional. Members can post forsale items, job openings, share management ideas, write their own blogs, upload videos, and create their own member webpages. http://www.connectingdirectors.com.. the “Facebook” of the funeral industry.. Visit http://www.connectingdirectors.com today.
April 1st, 2008 at 2:19 pm
TheFuneralSite.com just launched a new look and a new blog. The whole site is directed to consumers doing funeral planning. People can ask a director a question, learn about the thousands of things to do with cremated remains, review a funeral home and talk on the forum. It’s a all in one new content site for funeral planning.
April 11th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I just recently did quite a bit of research on non-traditional funeral practices. I noticed the lack of blogs regarding this, but did my best to cope. I’m surprised that there is not more coverage considering the phenomenal amount of revolutionary funeral methods, like online funerals and fireworks with human remains.
You can see for yourself here
http://theundergroundculture.blogspot.com
May 21st, 2008 at 3:25 pm
We recently launched a new blog about funerals. You will find it at:
http://www.fairhavenmemorialservices.com/funeralblog
I’m amazed at how many of these links are already defunct.