What are the duties performed by a funeral director and costs involved in operating a typical family funeral home?

The typical family owned funeral home is a labor intensive business offering facilities, automobile equipment and is staffed 365 days a year, 24 hours a day with licensed funeral directors that have many hours of continuing education and specialized training and education in place to ensure a competent and understanding funeral director is available to respond to your family’s needs when called upon. The professional services performed by licensed funeral directors are meeting with families to secure vital statistics information for the death certificate, permit and any other pertinent documentation and completes itemized services and merchandise cost agreements. He oversees all the necessary service details and coordinates times with the following services as needed clergy, organist, soloist, cemetery/crematory, automobile equipment, civic organizations, and fraternal associations and veterans groups. The funeral director completes the death certificate with the vital statistics ...  more