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 0 116
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 0 162
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 0 425
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 0 398
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 0 437
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 0 569
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 0 607
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 1216
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 0 623
Larry Stuart, Jr. Labor Day Off? As Labor Day approaches here in the U.S. and Canada, most people are gearing up for the unofficial end of summer. They’re firing up the grill, packing for a final trip to the lake, or just looking for... Funeral Director Gratitude History Aug 29, 2025 0 824
Benjamin Schmidt Updating Restorative Art As an educator, I regularly hear from members of funeral service what should and what should not be taught at mortuary school. As instructors, we are beholden to academic standards, deciding what will... Education Embalming Funeral Director Jul 30, 2025 0 4559
Benjamin Schmidt The Blue Conundrum— Understanding Methylene Blue in Embalming Methylene blue (MB) is a dark crystalline powder that turns blue when dissolved in water or alcohol. Originally synthesized in 1876 by Heinrich Caro as a text... Education Embalming Funeral Director Relevancy Apr 30, 2025 0 2905
