Benjamin Schmidt A History Written in Blood and Chemicals Fun fact: businesses had a version of an SDS long before the workers did. Today, we take Safety Data Sheets (SDS) for granted. Whether you're working in a funeral home's preparation room, a laboratory... Education Embalming Funeral Director History Infectious Disease Wellness Oct 29, 2026 0 47
Benjamin Schmidt Networking With Purpose Industry trade shows are among the most valuable professional development opportunities available to funeral service professionals. They bring together funeral directors, embalmers, cremation speciali... Business Management Education Funeral Director Marketing Sep 29, 2026 0 134
Larry Stuart, Jr. Three Hundred Dollars Open your funeral home's website and go to the page you built for families. You know the one. Somebody photographed the front porch in October light, somebody argued for two weeks about whether it sho... Business Management Funeral Director Human Resources Marketing Aug 22, 2026 0 269
Benjamin Schmidt The Hard Water in Your Prep Room Is 77 Million Years Old I am a regular traveler to Texas, and on a recent trip I brought my family along so they could see the sights and meet the people of my expanded community and environment. As many times as I have driv... Education Embalming Funeral Director History Jul 31, 2026 0 295
Larry Stuart, Jr. But It's AI Thoooo! A few weeks ago I posted a video created by Pantio, a company I advise. Pantio creates AI-powered digital personas of deceased loved ones. Families can interact with them by voice or text, hear their ... Jun 28, 2026 0 438
Larry Stuart, Jr. A Vow of Poverty Was Never In The Job Description Nobody walked into deathcare expecting to get rich. The work is sacred, the hours are unsociable, and the gratitude, when it shows up, doesn't show up on the PL. Fine. None of us signed up for a yacht... Business Management Education Funeral Director Marketing Relevancy May 26, 2026 0 539
Larry Stuart, Jr. The Kid Who Never Shut Up I was that kid. You know the one. The kid who asked "why" approximately four hundred times before breakfast. The kid who needed to understand the mechanism behind everything , who could not simply acc... Cremation Education Funeral Director Apr 28, 2026 0 558
Larry Stuart, Jr. The First Plausible Answer Why Confirmation Bias I sent an AI into a tailspin recently. Not intentionally. I just asked it to help me diagnose a technical problem, an image that wasn't showing up in a newsletter I was building. It read through the c... Business Management Crematory Operations Crematory Operators Funeral Director Apr 22, 2026 0 574
Benjamin Schmidt Stop Stabbing Towards Yourself Because all articles about OHSA should start out with a “fun fact,” here’s one; the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard was one of OSHA’s fastest developed major health standards! We all know how speedy the... Education Embalming Funeral Director Infectious Disease Mar 22, 2026 0 690
Larry Stuart, Jr. the Expert, the Ego, and the Paradox of Advice Once upon a time in the strange, bustling marketplace of business, there stood a threshold—not of wood and coats, but of contracts and retainers. Stepping through it felt like escaping the winter chil... Business Management Education Funeral Director Relevancy Feb 8, 2026 0 727
Benjamin Schmidt Formaldehyde, Funeral Service, and The Brazilian Blowout Fun fact, or maybe not so fun, formaldehyde was used in embalming in some capacity for nearly 90 years before OSHA set a national exposure limit. This means that generations of embalmers practiced alm... Education Embalming Funeral Director History Liability Relevancy Wellness Jan 23, 2026 0 1380
Larry Stuart, Jr. 150 Years of Smoke and Mirrors (The Good Kind) As we cross the threshold into 2026, the funeral industry finds itself in a peculiar, poetic position. We aren't just flipping a calendar page; we are standing at a massive historical crossroads. In 1... Business Management Cremation Education Education Funeral Director History Marketing Relevancy Dec 29, 2025 0 728
