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FAQs

Does Caitlin Doughty own a funeral home? ›

She founded a Los Angeles funeral home, Clarity Funerals, and currently lives in upstate New York.

For over two centuries, Diuguid Funeral Services & Crematory has been a steadfast provider of comfort and care to the Lynchburg community. Our tenure as the oldest funeral home in Virginia and the second oldest in the United States is a testament to our enduring commitment.

Most funeral homes are privately owned, and increasingly, more funeral homes are owned by large corporations. Service Corporation International, the largest death-care corporation in the country, owns and operates more than 1,400 locations in North America and brought in more than $4 billion in revenue in 2023.

Well, Megan Hess, a 46-year-old former funeral home owner from Colorado, found a way to stand out from the typical white-collar criminal. On Tuesday, she was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for dissecting 560 corpses and selling body parts without permission of the families of the deceased.

A chronicle of the lives of a dysfunctional family who run an independent funeral home in Los Angeles.

If the human remains are properly preserved they can be stored for longer periods of time. In most cases, so long as the remains are properly refrigerated, funeral homes can store a body for a few days to a few weeks.

This American tradition of hosting funerals in the family parlor is the genesis of the term “funeral parlor.” In more wealthy homes, a false (death) door was place off the parlor. It led outside to remove a deceased family member.

Casket. A casket is often the most expensive item that factors into the average funeral cost.

Why do funeral homes make so much money? ›

The most common way is through the sale of funeral services. This includes the cost of the funeral director, embalming, transportation, and other related services. Another way a funeral home business can generate income is by selling products. This includes caskets, urns, and grave markers.

Babylonians, Persians, and Syrians preserved their dead by placing them in jars of honey or wax. By depriving the bacteria in the body of air, decomposition was prevented. Peruvians practiced mummification 1000 years prior to being conquered by Spain in the early 16th century. Jewish preservation customs are simple.

Having the funeral home owner or an employee live on-site reduces the chances that someone will break into the funeral home to steal chemicals. There's also the chance that vandals could break in and do damage to the funeral home's interior.

Funeral homes have been around for centuries, but they didn't become a formal business until the late 1800s. Before then, funerals were typically held in the home of the deceased, and families were responsible for preparing the body for burial.

Plantsville Funeral Home and Southington Cremation Service were established in 1969 by William and Stella Dziedzic. Today the family business is owned and managed by their son, Robert F. Dziedzic, his wife, Anita Dziedzic, and their daughter, Lauren A. Dziedzic.

Doug Friesen

In 2012, Doug decided to use his talents to make a positive and lasting impact on grieving families and he and Eunice established Bear Creek Funeral Home.

From left: DeVargas founder and president Johnny DeVargas and Taos general manager Joaquin Gonzales inside the new DeVargas Funeral Home on Paseo del Pueblo Sur in Taos.

Royal's rich black history is a point of pride for Karen Jones Smith and David W. Smith. The wife and husband team, president and vice president respectively of Royal Funeral Home, Incorporated are the third generation to purchase, own and operate the business.