Before I tell you when you should fire your funeral home, bear with me as I describe the situation that prompted this little blog post: I traded in my convertible for a used sedan last week. We’re thinking about kid number two, so it was time for me to grow up and get something with […]
The funeral industry is too often known for its worst practitioners. The practitioners who take financial advantage of the bereaved in their most helpless state. Those who price gouge and exploit. Those who use the dark side of the Force. So how can you – the consumer – distinguish between the funeral homes that genuinely […]
Do Funeral Homes Charge Too Much for Their Services? I asked this question on my Facebook page over the weekend. Over 330 people answered. And the discussion became pretty heated. Being that I like hot topics, I thought I’d take a stab at the question. Let me preface this article by saying that I am […]
“I was pretty certain it wasn’t my wife – unless she did some awful changing,” said Evans Davidson, the bereaved widower whose wife’s body was in a funeral body mix-up at the Simpson Mortuary in Inglewood, CA. Unfortunately, mistakes and negligence like body mix-ups happen in the funeral business. And when they do, there are lawyers like Farid […]