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Funeral Service Insider: The Podcast

Kates-Boylston Publications has been covering death care for more than a century. Funeral Service Insider brings that institutional knowledge to bear on current events with the aim of helping funeral service professionals better understand the present and plan for the future.

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Samuel Perry on Greening Funeral Service

Samuel Perry, assistant lecturer of mortuary science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, teaches green funeral practices to future funeral directors.

Perry came to funeral service having started as a groundskeeper for his local funeral home in high school. It wasn’t until he started working as a funeral director, though, that he realized he wouldn’t be able to implement his plans for moving the funeral industry to greener practices. Earlier this year he decided to begin teaching green funeral practices to future funeral directors.

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Mortuary Science Program

What Every Funeral Director Needs to Know About Green Funerals:
A Handbook for Funeral Directors by Lee Webster.

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enJune 05, 2023

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Jennifer Wright-Berryman on LGBTQ+ Issues for Funeral Directors

Jennifer Wright-Berryman, associate professor of social work at the University of Cincinnati, was looking into death care in stigmatized circumstances when she turned her attention to how funeral homes interact with LBGTQ+ people. She found the industry lacking in her initial research into whether funeral home websites were LGBTQ+ friendly.

FSI reported on her work in October 2022.

Links:

Jennifer Wright-Berryman's Website

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Kates-Boylston Webinars on Demand page

FSI Newsletter Subscription Page

Funeral Service Insider: The Podcast

enMay 22, 2023

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"Dr. T." Tanya Scotece on Mortuary School

Tanya Scotece, program coordinator for the Funeral Service Education Program at Miami Dade College, discusses teaching adults and trends in mortuary education.

While there are lots of things she thinks mortuary schools do well, she also recognizes there can be gaps.

Scotece speaks at length about how she has made changes in her own program and how she hopes to see those changes spread to other jurisdictions. Particularly, there’s a need to make the internship process more like an apprenticeship.

She and host Tony Russo discuss how people often will put off funeral service until they’ve retired from a different career, particularly public safety or the military, versus her own experience balancing being a single mother during the early part of her career.

Links:

Kates-Boylston Revenue Generation course free registration page

Kates-Boylston Webinars on Demand page

Miami-Dade Funeral Services Associate Program

American Funeral Director featuring Tanya Scotece

FSI Newsletter Subscription Page

Funeral Service Insider: The Podcast

enMay 08, 2023

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Welcome to Funeral Service Insider

Death care is changing now more than it has in 100 years. Each episode features conversations with funeral directors, cemeterians and other death-care professionals working to navigate this traditional vocation as it transforms to continue meeting each family's needs.

Funeral Service Insider: The Podcast is a Kates-Boylston production. Visit Kates-Boylston.com for industry news, events and educational webinars.