There are a few publicly traded funeral home companies. I think their stocks are doing very well, but I haven't researched this.
I know as an inflation "work-around," far more people are opting for (cheaper) cremation than burial services. That actually takes away the option of later autopsies.
No, they are dying too. A wife of a funeral home manager died recently in my hometown. My mom mentioned this so I looked it up. A few other funeral home employees in other places have died recently too.
I started (ghoulishly?) carefully reading the obits in the small-town Maine newspaper which we subscribe to, from a 500-mile distance. I count the number of deaths, note how many are in what I consider the normal dying cohort (85+), how many shouldn't be dying--because younger. How many 'died at home in the presence of loved ones (or family)', how many died 'unexpectedly'. Recently, one notice attributed death to 'complications of Covid'--this surprised me. In July, a young 20-ish fellow died 'after a 9 day battle with cancer'. Yup. Those two stood out as screaming the truth--all other notices hide it. However, because I was, until recently, completely uninterested in death notices, I don't have any basis for comparison--did notices before 2021 tend to mention cause of death? I have come to assume that newspapers don't permit truth-telling. Any commenter with any back-up for this assumption? Last week's paper had 9 obits; 6 of them --in my totally biased opinion--shouldn't have been on that page at all. And I am not even going into the surprising write-ups of auto accidents--death-dealing or not.
I do not believe, though, that the funeral home owners and managers are in on the plot. Or are they?
I don't believe that was what Bill Rice, Jr. was insinuating. However, when business is booming people IN THAT BUSINESS get rich.
There are a few publicly traded funeral home companies. I think their stocks are doing very well, but I haven't researched this.
I know as an inflation "work-around," far more people are opting for (cheaper) cremation than burial services. That actually takes away the option of later autopsies.
Service Corp International
No, they are dying too. A wife of a funeral home manager died recently in my hometown. My mom mentioned this so I looked it up. A few other funeral home employees in other places have died recently too.
I started (ghoulishly?) carefully reading the obits in the small-town Maine newspaper which we subscribe to, from a 500-mile distance. I count the number of deaths, note how many are in what I consider the normal dying cohort (85+), how many shouldn't be dying--because younger. How many 'died at home in the presence of loved ones (or family)', how many died 'unexpectedly'. Recently, one notice attributed death to 'complications of Covid'--this surprised me. In July, a young 20-ish fellow died 'after a 9 day battle with cancer'. Yup. Those two stood out as screaming the truth--all other notices hide it. However, because I was, until recently, completely uninterested in death notices, I don't have any basis for comparison--did notices before 2021 tend to mention cause of death? I have come to assume that newspapers don't permit truth-telling. Any commenter with any back-up for this assumption? Last week's paper had 9 obits; 6 of them --in my totally biased opinion--shouldn't have been on that page at all. And I am not even going into the surprising write-ups of auto accidents--death-dealing or not.