Pericles' Funeral Oration

Bernie is a movie about a small Texas town funeral director, named Bernie, whom had nothing but enthusiastic and encouraging words for the families he worked with and the small Texas town’s people he lived near. He was so giving from his heart and truly loved his job and to help others. Bernie’s kindness was not usually taken for weakness nor for granted, but when a widow becomes one of Bernie’s customers, his life seemed to go downhill. The widow, named Marge, is also known to the town’s…

Career and College Research paper A Funeral director, known as a Mortician, is a highly respected job. The job, itself, is a fairly simple one. You pick up and prepare corpses as instructed by the family of the deceased, and set up the paperwork for the funeral. Most funeral homes are family owned as a common practice, where multiple family members work together, each in individual fields. Sadly, this kind of job does not come easy, the schooling and education requirements alone are enough to…

The design style of the funeral industry is changing as the upcoming generation. The traditional style was fine for the previous generation by as the upcoming generation trend is more about experience rather than looking at the price of the product. Existing funeral houses in the area are traditional style transitioning into the modern style slowly. Most haven’t been updated fully in the modern style. Funeral homes still resemble a home like interior. The new funeral homes have to have the same…

I agree with your post about funeral homes being an essential need at some point in life that all will need to utilize. Furthermore, I also agree that they are a highly needed necessity. All the more, what I find interesting is that many people still base their decisions on which funeral home to utilize based on reputation, word of mouth, cost, quality, friendliness, by using the facility and services previously, and those that are willing to go over and beyond to assist you families in their…

all you can see is the price of the bill continuing to rise. Funerals are expensive not matter the path you choose. When you begin looking at the comparison between a traditional funeral and cremation options, you begin to notice one big thing… the number of zeros that follow the dollar sign. When things are said and done you have three options: a traditional funeral, direct cremation, and a cremation service. While a traditional funeral and direct cremation are total opposites, they do share…

once we have lost a loved one to move on positively from the grief? In most cases, funerals are exceptional in sending off their loved one in peace and comfort. Funerals are ceremonies honoring a deceased person, typically involving burial or cremation. However, funerals can become overly costly and exhausting, that an individual may not be able to send their loved one away in comfort and peace. I believe that funerals are a way to resolve grief, have closure from the tragic loss, moving on to…

internal analysis to come). Porter’s Five Forces of Competition Framework – Funeral Services Industry Threat of New Entry – The pressure from competition is relatively low as the barriers to entry in this industry are very high. In the financial analysis above the review of data displayed a high requirement for capital to be able to purchase the land, buildings, inventory and other materials necessary to enter the funeral…

Leocardia Valcarcel “Never fear the dead, it’s the living that will hurt you” Charlene Vincent at the age of 24, has been in the funeral services business four years and counting. Being an administrative assistant at Ross-Roden funeral home has not been easy for her. Due to her lack of knowledge of this profession, being straight out of high school and in need of employment. A fellow sister of the church she attended informed her that her sibling was looking to hire at Ross-Roden. That’s when…

didn’t think anything of it. Little did I know I would run into those responders again that night. It was about seven thirty when my phone range, and I looked down to see it was my boss calling. Naturally at this point (I had been working for the funeral home for a little over a year and a half) I was not surprised to be called in, as I did the majority of our evening removals. She was shy of voice, and for someone who is as seasoned a she, I knew something terrible had happened. She struggled…

Stewart Enterprises Inc. was a funeral and cemetery service company. A man named Albert Stewart in 1910 in New Orleans established this company. Albert Stewart was an owner of a real estate business called Acme Realty Company. Through his real estate business Albert purchased three cemeteries called St. Vincent de Paul and a St. Vincent de Paul shop that built cemetery monuments for graves. As time went by Albert Stewart and his sons joined the real estate company and the cemetery company…