Funeral Home Customer Service A–Z

Funeral Home Customer Service A–Z
Author: Alan D Wolfelt
Publisher: Companion Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2005-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1617220345

From personalizing memorials and visitations to aftercare for the bereaved, this thoughtful manual helps owners and staff of funeral homes and cemeteries better understand their customers and the special needs in tending to the grieving and burial process. Explaining the evolution and prospects of today's "experience economy" customer, this motivational resource offers practical guidance for exceeding expectations and provides suggestions for service issues particular to funeral homes, such as first impressions, telephone skills, competition, and arrangements. With the more than 70 issues addressed, funeral professionals will be able to meet and exceed the sensitive necessities of families in pain.

Funeral Home Customer Service A–Z

Funeral Home Customer Service A–Z
Author: Alan D. Wolfelt
Publisher: Companion Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2005-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1879651440

From personalizing memorials and visitations to aftercare for the bereaved, this thoughtful manual helps owners and staff of funeral homes and cemeteries better understand their customers and the special needs in tending to the grieving and burial process. Explaining the evolution and prospects of today's "experience economy" customer, this motivational resource offers practical guidance for exceeding expectations and provides suggestions for service issues particular to funeral homes, such as first impressions, telephone skills, competition, and arrangements. With the more than 70 issues addressed, funeral professionals will be able to meet and exceed the sensitive necessities of families in pain.

The Lobo Outback Funeral Home

The Lobo Outback Funeral Home
Author: Dave Foreman
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781555663391

"The Lobo Outback Funeral Home: A Novel" by Dave Foreman, Foreword by Doug Peacock. Jack Hunter, disillusioned and burned-out on environmental activism after years as a Sierra Club lobbyist, leaves Washington, D.C. for southwestern New Mexico's Diablo National Forest. Getting caught up in the bloody consequences of his cynicism, he discovers the true cost of not taking a stand for what he loves.

Final Rights

Final Rights
Author: Joshua Slocum
Publisher: Square One Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 771
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0942679350

Josh Slocum and Lisa Carlson are the two most prominent advocates of consumer rights in dealing with the death industry. Here they combine efforts to inform consumers of their rights and propose long-needed reforms. Slocum is executive director of Funeral Consumers Alliance, a national nonprofit with over 90 local affiliates nationwide. Carlson is executive director of Funeral Ethics Organization, which works with the industry to try to improve ethical standards. In addition to nationwide issues, the book covers state-by-state information needed by anybody who wishes to take charge of funeral arrangements for a loved one, with or without the help of a funeral director. More information about the book and related issues can be found at www.finalrights.org .

A Tale of Two Funerals

A Tale of Two Funerals
Author: Dr. Alan Wolfelt
Publisher: Companion Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1617222488

Meet the Williams family. Grandma Williams has died, and her children call Night & Day Funeral Home to make arrangements. Courtesy of a Twilight-Zonesque space-time anomaly, the Williams family ends up concurrently planning and holding two funerals for Grandma—one arranged by funeral director Sam Standard and the other by funeral director Garrett Gatekeeper. How will the two funerals turn out? Will the Williams family even be able to tell the difference? Find out in this riveting—and revealing—Tale of Two Funerals...

Creating Meaningful Funeral Ceremonies

Creating Meaningful Funeral Ceremonies
Author: Alan Wolfelt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2013-11-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317756533

More and more people are considering a career in nursing or healthcare, but the thought of undertaking an academic degree at university can be intimidating. Whether you are moving straight from school or college or have been away from education for some time, Getting Ready for your Nursing Degree is essential preparation for anyone considering becoming or about to become a nursing student. It looks at all aspects of university work in a straightforward way and provides advice, examples and activities designed to help you get the most out of classes, research and assessments, from your first lecture right through to sitting exams and learning on placement. Designed with nursing students in mind, this small but perfectly formed guide is tailored to help you develop the skills you will need not only for your course but for your career and lifelong learning as a registered healthcare practitioner.

To Serve the Living

To Serve the Living
Author: Suzanne E. Smith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0674054644

For African Americans, death was never simply the end of life, and funerals were not just places to mourn. In the "hush harbors" of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path to freedom. Similarly, throughout the long - and often violent - struggle for racial equality in the twentieth century, funeral directors aided the cause by honoring the dead while supporting the living. To Serve the Living offers a fascinating history of how African American funeral directors have been integral to the fight for freedom.