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Here’s an interesting innovation in hearse manufacturing, a Prius Hearse!

With all the green incentives and fuel costs going up in the future, does it make since to have a battery operated hearse? Should be the ultimate in quiet rides, which I think is a plus for the experience of loved ones. What do you think?

This article is saying that it’s unlikely to get these in the U.S., but I’m sure there’s someone that will be willing to make them if there’s a profit to be made.

Thanks to Lequios, you can do more for the environment once you’re dead than just become fertilizer for pushing up daisies. The Japanese hearse manufacturer is designing a hearse based on the 2010 Toyota Prius, meaning your last trip in a car can be an environmentally-responsible one. And you thought saving the planet for future generations was best left to the living?

Lequios hasn’t confirmed production of the extended Prius, but it is looking in to the matter based on actual consumer interest. The Prius hearse would be significantly longer than the mid-sized hybrid, measuring an additional 77.2-inches for a total of 256-inches. That’s 21.34 feet!

Fuel-economy would, understandably, suffer with an expected average fuel economy rating of 44mpg – which isn’t bad when you consider the new Prius gets a combined rating of 50 mpg.

If Lequios does go ahead with the Prius Hearse is is expected to cost 7,875,000 Yen, or roughly $83,000 – although the chances of one making its way to the U.S. is unlikely.

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I’m sure glad none of my drivers did this, but you never know, do you? Did quite a few removals from the Santa Clara County Coroner. I also had a contract with a funeral home that used that crematory, it was housed at an old cemetery. My my my.

Pot plants found with dead body cargo in traffic stop

Sophia Kazmi
Valley Times
Posted: 06/25/2009 01:01:49 PM PDT
DUBLIN — A traffic stop became a little bizarre Wednesday night when police found more than 100 marijuana plants and a dead man’s body inside a van they pulled over.
The body was legal, said Dublin police Lt. Kurt Von Savoye. The plants, however, were not.
The incident began about 9:45 p.m. when Dublin police pulled over a full-size Ford Econoline van near Shannon Avenue and San Ramon Road. While speaking to the two people inside, the officers smelled the distinct aroma of marijuana, Von Savoye said.
They detained the two people inside — 26-year-old Cannon McCarter of Discovery Bay and Nicole Schooss, 22, of Livermore — and searched the van. Inside they found 117 pot plants and a large box. Inside the box was a dead man’s body,” said Von Savoye.
The pair said they were transporting the body from the Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office to a Livermore mortuary for cremation.
“It’s definitely unique,” Von Savoye said.
Based on the appearance of the body, which did not seem to be a victim of violence, it appeared they were telling the truth, Von Savoye said. Representatives of the coroner’s office and the mortuary were called out and verified the pair’s story.
McCarter and Schooss were arrested on suspicion of drug violations, Von Savoye said.
Transporting the body was legal, he said. Schoos and Cannon were working for a transport company hired to move the body.
“There was no violation ofbthe law” where the body was concerned, Von Savoye said.

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This article is just another reminder that there are more opportunities in the body removal business than just time of death transportation.

The creative mortuary transport business owner will find ways to encourage families and funeral business owners to use their services for transporting green burials. Since you can ethically charge the same as the original removal or more, you can actually multiply your income on each death, which makes it not so imperative to create more volume.

Quality over quantity is the name of this game. Make your business the preferred transportation because of your attention to detail and the professionalism of your staff.

From a transportation perspective, green burials can be much easier than traditional burials, since you don’t have the bulk and weight of a standard wood or metal casket.

Think about offering your services for green burials, and put the money you spend on equipment (like church trucks, etc.) to use in creative ways to make a more meaningful experience for the families. It’s a win/win for the funeral business if you invest in these things, and you are to go-to person for these kind of jobs.

Green to the end

Ecofriendly funerals are an option but slow to catch on

Lancaster New Era
Published: Jun 23, 2009
10:34 EST

By MARY BETH SCHWEIGERT, Staff Writer

Going green has gone underground — and all the way to the grave.

Funeral director Charles “Chad” F. Snyder III says the idea of a green burial attracts the most interest from environmentally conscious baby boomers. “This is obviously not for everyone,” he says. “It’s for a very small percentage of people.”
* In a green burial, which uses a biodegradable, metal-free casket and no vault, everything – including the deceased – eventually becomes one with the earth.
“Green” burials are designed to reduce waste and environmental impact, by foregoing metal caskets, embalming and vaults.
The idea is picking up steam in other areas, particularly the West Coast, but it’s slower to catch on in Lancaster County, where many families prefer more traditional farewells.
At Bachman Funeral Home Inc., Strasburg, funeral director John Bachman says people are curious about green burials, but he hasn’t accommodated any actual takers.
“People ask about it, but they don’t ask for it,” he says.
Traditionally caskets and surrounding vaults are designed to withstand the elements, leaving tons of metal and concrete behind in the ground.
And there is some concern about the potential impact of embalming chemicals.
But in a green burial, which uses a biodegradable, metal-free casket and no vault, everything — including the deceased — eventually becomes one with the earth.
Charles “Chad” F. Snyder III, general manager of Charles F. Snyder Funeral Home & Chapel Inc., Lititz, says the idea of a green burial attracts the most interest from environmentally conscious baby boomers.
“This is obviously not for everyone,” he says. “It’s for a very small percentage of people.”
For some families, there’s another appeal: Green burials can actually cost less than a traditional approach, which averages $7,323, according to the National Funeral Directors Association.
Though many Lancaster County funeral directors will work with families who want to go green, there are roadblocks to green burials here.
The lack of embalming means an open-casket viewing — many families’ custom — is not allowed. And nearly all local cemeteries require vaults, to make maintenance easier.
“If you went out and asked if people think (green burials) are a good idea, most people would probably say yes,” says Mark DeBord, president of Kearney A. Snyder Funeral Home Inc., 141 E. Orange St., Lancaster.
“Whether it’s something they would choose to do, I’m not sure.”

Back to the Past

Green burials mark a return to some old ideas, particularly the practices of certain religious or ethnic groups.
“Green burial, in many ways, is not new. It’s how most of the world has cared for its dead for thousands of years,” says Joe Sehee, executive director of the nonprofit Green Burial Council, which has a national network of funeral homes committed to offering green products and services.
While embalming and vaults are traditional for many local families, they are not legally required. (Embalming, however, is required for an open-casket viewing.)
Embalming, which disinfects and preserves the deceased’s body, became common in the United States only around the Civil War.
Vaults, typically made of concrete, surround a casket, keeping out water and insects. Their popularity grew in the late 19th century, primarily to discourage grave robbers.
Caskets promote convenience and a dignified presentation, but they are not legally required.

Why Go Green

Critics, like the 4-year-old, Santa Fe., N.M.-based Green Burial Council, say current burial practices are wasteful and damaging to the environment.
Each year, the GBC says, the United States buries tons of reinforced concrete, steel and hardwood board, all of which require energy to manufacture and transport.
Embalming fluid contains formaldehyde, labeled a “probable human carcinogen” by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Critics cite potential danger to funeral-industry workers. But funeral directors say they wear gowns, masks and gloves, and use sophisticated ventilation systems when working with embalming fluid.
Suggested links between formaldehyde exposure and cancer have not been proven, says Holli Senior, spokeswoman for the state Health Department.
The durability of traditional caskets and vaults makes it unlikely that formaldehyde from an embalmed body could seep into the ground, Snyder says.
Cremation — rates have doubled in the last five years — is “green” in that it conserves space.
But it consumes fossil fuels, particularly when older facilities are used. Whether any emissions could potentially harm people or the environment is widely debated.
The industry is working to develop greener cremation processes, Snyder funeral director Andrew D. Dieck says.
“As for true green cremation, it doesn’t exist in Pennsylvania yet.”

Eco-friendly Options

Unlike their traditional counterparts, green caskets use no metal and are designed to biodegrade without waste.
They may be made of renewable hardwoods, and are held together with wooden pegs and a nontoxic, biodegradable glue.
“What’s natural about it is there will be no waste at all,” Dieck says. “There’s nothing left behind to impact the earth negatively.”
Snyder, the only local funeral home in the GBC’s network of providers, also sells a line of caskets made from willow, seagrass or bamboo.
The caskets are comparable or even less-expensive than the average metal model, which costs $2,255, according to NAFD. Foregoing a vault and embalming would save an average of $1,678.
A new, nontoxic embalming fluid could be used with biodegradable caskets, without worry that it could negatively impact the environment, Snyder says.
Families who don’t want to go all out can choose smaller ways to go green.
Cremation urns can be biodegradable. Prayer cards and registers can be made from recycled paper.
And families can skip flowers or choose to transport the deceased’s body in a more fuel-efficient minivan.

A Tough Sell

Green burials can be a particularly tough sell for families of certain religious traditions, and those who are used to an open-casket viewing.
“This is too far outside the box for them,” Snyder says.
State law and Occupational Health and Safety Administration regulations prohibit open-casket viewing of an unembalmed body, he says. Refrigeration may be used instead, and the family can have a closed-casket visitation.
Any fears of unembalmed bodies transmitting disease are unfounded, Senior says. Pathogens, particularly viruses, do not survive for long after a person dies, she says.
Individual cemeteries decide whether or not to require vaults. Without a vault, graves may shift over time, displacing headstones and creating uneven surfaces.
Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery, 11 Greenfield Road, Lancaster, is one of the few local cemeteries (not including Jewish or Amish) that doesn’t require vaults.
“Fifty, maybe 60, percent of my burials do not use vaults,” caretaker Noah Zimmerman says.
A few families have mentioned environmental concerns, but he suspects that many forego vaults to save money.
Plots without vaults require a bit more effort to maintain, Zimmerman says. But he is committed to following families’ wishes, even if it means simply wrapping the deceased in a sheet for burial.
“The first heavy rain, their loved one will be more than likely wet,” Zimmerman says. “It’s fine with me if it’s fine with you.”

Going Green in Mount Joy

A handful of green cemeteries have opened nationwide, and one is proposed near Pittsburgh.
The park-like cemeteries typically have engraved rocks or plaques, instead of tombstones. Graves are unadorned with artificial flowers, flags or candles.
Steve Rice, who runs the Mount Joy Cemetery, hopes to open an adjacent green section by next spring.
Rice says his plan has drawn a lot of interest, including from people in other states.
“Eighty percent think it’s really neat,” he says. ” … Other people don’t like it.”
Rice envisions a meadow with tail grasses, wildflowers, memorial plantings and perhaps even a stream.
He plans to offer families simple pine-box caskets, as well as cardboard models that cost just $75.
The deceased can also simply be wrapped in a shroud, blanket or nothing at all. Simple pins will mark graves.
The main cemetery, which dates to the 1700s, is approaching capacity, Rice says.
“When the rest of it’s full, we’re going to have to go green.”

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Now here’s something you don’t see every day. Or do you? Two women are accused of faking everything from the identity, to the expenses to the disposition, and were trying to get a bunch of other people help them to do it! A notary and a funeral home owner already plead guilty, but these women are still saying they didn’t do it!

2 women accused of staging bogus funerals to collect insurance

The pair bought policies on fictitious people and, after the policies matured, arranged for phony death certificates and burials or cremations for the nonexistent corpses, a federal indictment says.
By Rich Connell
10:22 PM PDT, April 8, 2009

Federal agents arrested two women Wednesday — including one who worked at a mortuary — on charges of staging phony funerals to collect an estimated $1 million in life insurance and other payments.

The women bought insurance policies on fictitious people and, after the policies matured, arranged for bogus death certificates and burials or cremations for their nonexistent corpses, according to a federal grand jury indictment.
In one sham funeral for a “Jim Davis” at a Long Beach mortuary, authorities allege, the casket was loaded with various items to simulate the weight of a corpse. A grave plot was purchased in Compton and the casket buried, according to court records.

After the staged funeral and burial, the women, working with others, filed false paperwork with the county indicating that the remains had been cremated and scattered at sea, according to court records.

Besides collecting life insurance payments, advance payments secured by the policies were collected from financing companies to pay inflated funeral costs, authorities say. Fake billings totaling tens of thousands of dollars were created, the indictment says.

“The level of deception is shocking,” said Special Assistant U.S. Atty. Anthony Montero. “You’d like to think that funerals happening in funeral homes . . . are legitimate and real.”

The women, Faye Schilling, 60, a Hawthorne phlebotomist, and Jean Crump, 66, of Los Angeles, a mortuary worker, allegedly had accomplices, and more arrests could be made, officials said.

“I do think it’s a larger scheme,” Montero said.

Two other women, Lydia Eileen Pearce, 37, who owned Steward-Pearce Mortuary in Long Beach, and notary Barbara Lynn, 54, of Los Angeles previously pleaded guilty in connection with the alleged scam, Montero said.

Reached Wednesday evening, Schilling, who was freed on bail, denied the charges. “That’s a lie,” she said. “That’s not my line of work, that’s not something I do. . . . That’s not true.” She declined to comment further. Crump and her attorney could not be reached immediately.

Investigators are still trying to determine if the identities of actual people were stolen or if fake decedents were made up, Montero said. “Ultimately, I believe they are going to end up being purely fictitious,” he said.

The insurance polices were purchased in amounts ranging from $50,000 to $450,000, Montero said. The defendants collected on polices as large as $250,000, he said.

In one instance, Crump offered a doctor $50,000 to fabricate medical records to support the cause of death listed on the phony death certificate, the indictment says.

In another case, the defendants are accused of faking the cremation of a “Laura Urich” and collecting $5,000 in funeral expenses and $50,000 in insurance death benefits through two purported beneficiaries, according to court records.

The scheme continued from 2004 to early 2007, Montero said. Federal agents began investigating after people who were approached by the women to join the scam reported it to authorities, he said.

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Here’s another work opportunity, transporting cadavers for educational use.

We did quite a few removals that went to Stanford, and that was through a funeral home that had the contract with Stanford. They always went directly to refrigeration, and then were processed later with fluids to make them last forever.

Every once in a while, we’d go back and pick up a couple boxes of parts, sometimes the whole person, for cremation. Stanford paid for it all. Their only stipulation was that the patient have no communicable disease like Hepatitis, AIDs or Tuberculosis, and that had to be certified by the doctor signing the death certificate.

Just about every state has a program like this, find out who they’re contracted with, and make that funeral home an offer. Many times, because the family is getting free disposition of the remains, they aren’t so formal as when a regular funeral home comes, so it’s a good opportunity to learn and learn from any mistakes.

Too many cadavers? Indiana considers sharing

By DOROTHY SCHNEIDER • dschneider@jconline.com • April 9, 2009

While it’s not often publicized, a program that allows Hoosiers to donate their bodies to science after their death has been gaining participants in recent years.
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The Indiana Anatomical Education Board, run by the Indiana University Medical School, registers donors and then arranges for the cadavers to be used for medical student training across the state, including at Purdue University.

The program has been getting roughly 225 donors in each of the past couple of years, which is an increase from the 150 it averaged years earlier, said Dr. David Burr, chairman of the Anatomical Education Board.

Now Indiana wants to share the extra cadavers it has available with medical school programs in other states. And a measure being considered by the legislature this spring would allow the state’s program to do so.

“There are states that have serious shortages,” Burr said. “Indiana doesn’t have a shortage right now so we want to help other states.”

Burr pointed to New York as one state with many medical programs but not enough cadavers to meet the needs in classrooms.

If Senate Bill 218 is approved, the Indiana program will be allowed to send cadavers it doesn’t need to other states.

Those bodies would then be returned after use, as all in-state bodies are, and cremated. The remains are then either returned to the families or buried in a communal site in Indianapolis.

The increase in donations may be due to a change in the program policy a few years ago that no longer requires the bodies to go first to a funeral home to be embalmed, Burr said.

“The advantage to them is there are no charges for them if they donate directly,” he explained. “Otherwise the funeral home would charge (families) for embalming fees, transport and other things.”

Medical programs utilize the cadavers for training doctors, dentists and even physical therapists. Students at the IU medical school on Purdue’s campus use cadavers in both undergraduate and graduate coursework.

“I look at it as crucial education,” said Jim Walker, a professor of anatomy in Purdue’s Basic Medical Sciences program. “They’re going to be working on human beings, so they should be practicing on them.”

Some schools have turned to computer simulations or alternate programs to substitute for dissection in the classroom, but Walker said there’s no real good substitution.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt that students who do dissection are far better,” he said.

Gordon Coppoc, director and assistant dean of the IU School of Medicine-Lafayette, said working on a human cadaver is a right of passage for medical students.

“We treat the cadaver with tremendous respect,” he said. “We make sure the students understand these people have donated their bodies to further education.”

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So it appears that it’s true that the funeral industry can thrive even in hard economic times, in all places, in China!

Now, what about here in America?

My experience is that American Funeral Homes may have to raise their prices even in a down economy, just because of the raise in prices for facilities and supplies.

What has it been like for you as a Funeral Director?

How about the Mortuary Transport Service industry?

How has the economy effected your business?

Morticians blamed for making too much profit from funeral industry

www.chinaview.cn 2009-04-03 21:49:36

BEIJING, April 3 (Xinhua) — A close look at the country’s funeral industry at the eve of Qingming, a traditional festival for mourning, reveals expensive funerals, graves and other costly services for the dead, which need stricter regulations, according to social affairs official Friday.

Since 2003, the funeral service industry was selected as one of the “ten most lucrative industries” by Chinese netizens for three years in a row, according to Shanghai-based Oriental Radio Station.

A worker with the Tongzhou Funeral House of Beijing told Xinhua that private mortuaries and illegal hearses take the largest share of the industry’s profits.

Mortuaries affiliated with hospitals can provide a variety of services, he said.

The mortuary of the First Hospital affiliated to Peking University charges 300 yuan (43 U.S. dollars) for cleaning the body, 100 yuan for cutting toenails, 50 yuan for cutting fingernails, 150 yuan for dressing the body, and 600 yuan for holding a visitation. Grave clothes at a cost of less than 50 yuan could sell at more than 1000 yuan here.

But according to the charging regulations issued by Beijing civil administrative department, the maximum charge for holding a visitation should range from 50 yuan to 600 yuan. Dressing the bodies should cost 100 yuan.

“Most mortuaries are contracted to private owners, and they usually contact unregistered hearse drivers to transport the bodies. These businesses take a great share of customers and charge at an unreasonably high price,” the worker said.

Objects used for funerals are also being sold at prices much higher than their costs.

According to the proposal submitted by Wu Gang, a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and deputy director of Chongqing municipal development and reform commission, an 100 yuan-cremains box could cost more than 4000 yuan, and a gravesite may cost tens of and even hundreds of thousands yuan.

Luo Zhongli, a member of the National People’s Congress, China’s parliament, said: “graves are more expensive than houses, and the profit made from developing cemeteries far exceeds that of the real estate industry,”

The current practice is that private investors would buy lands from local village committees or civil administrative departments, at the price of less than 200,000 yuan per mu (0.06 hectare), on which 350 gravesites could be built. If each gravesite sells at 10,000 yuan (1,429 U.S. dollars), the total sales of the gravesites on one mu would reach 3.5 million yuan. Since cemeteries are exempt from business taxes, the developers could secure a profit rate of almost 400 percent, said Luo.

With the great financial prospect, the funeral industry has increased its popularity among job seekers.

On March 21, the Shanghai Funeral Service Center held its first job fair for university students. More than 5000 graduates competed for about 400 jobs.

“We have recruited several college students in recent years and a few quit afterwards. This proves how charming the industry is. Students can make full use of what they have learned,” Wang Hongjie, director of the Shanghai Funeral Service Center, said on its official Web site.

Despite the unfolding financial crisis, the Shanghai Funeral Service Center offered salaries ranging from 3000 to 15,000 yuan per month to its new employees.

Among the many jobs offered by funeral houses, the position of body dressers is one of the most talked-about ones in the media.

But the worker with the Tongzhou Funeral House told Xinhua that few college graduates apply for jobs in funeral houses, and all the publicity about body dressers is only media hype. With appropriate payment, it is only an ordinary job which most people still dread.

In response to the talk about “profiteering” in the funeral industry, Li Quan of the Social Affairs Department of the Civil Administrative Ministry said that the prices of various funeral objects and services should be set strictly according to related regulations and standards during the upcoming Qingming Festival, which falls on April 4 this year.

“Charges for all service items and commodities should be clearly marked. No price jacking is allowed,” the official said.

Also, the first municipal cemetery for public interest in Beijing, the Changqingyuan Ash Deposit and Cemetery, is put into use and open to public booking today.

The cemetery is free for those eligible for the minimum living standard security system and the key special-care recipients. For other citizens, each ash case is charged for 3000 yuan (428.6 U.S. dollars), with the municipal financial department subsidizing 1000yuan for them.

Also known as All Souls Day or Tomb Sweeping Day in English, Qingming is a Chinese lunar festival to remember the dead and honor ancestors by sweeping their graves and offering sacrifices.

“People are still buying flowers, food and incense for their ancestors.

There has been little sign of cutting back spending on sacrifices, despite the financial crisis, although more and more people come here by public transportation instead of private cars,” a worker with the Phoenix Mountain Memorial Park in Changping district, Beijing, told Xinhua on Friday.

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Here’s another reason, as if you need one, to be ultra careful with your paperwork.  Be religious about maintaining your paperwork, and ‘fess up if you lose it. It can always be redone, and even if you lose a customer, hopefully you’ll stay out of jail!

This guy had to put his apology on a billboard, with his name at the bottom, and he’ll never work in the funeral industry again.

Word to the wise.

Man Who Hid Bodies in Van Apologizes on Billboard

The former owner of a mortuary transport company who hid three bodies for more than five years has apologized on a highway billboard that begins: “I should treat the deceased in my care with dignity and respect.”

Donald Short, 44, of Hurst, was arrested in 2005 when the bodies were found after his abandoned van was repossessed.

“Donald Short has not apologized to me,” said Cheryle Jacobs, of Arlington.

Jacobs said she thought her father, Thomas Shadowens, was cremated after he died at age 89 in 2000. She believed she had his ashes in an urn on her mantle.

Shadowens was one of the first black real estate agents in Fort Worth.

Jacobs said she was shocked when police notified her five years later that his body had been found in the van.

Short was later convicted of abusing a corpse, a misdemeanor.

“When we were in court, his expression was deadpan,” Jacobs said. “He looked straight ahead. There was no emotion.”

Short said he lost the paperwork when he transferred the bodies in 2000 and did not know what to do, so he left the bodies in a refrigerator at a funeral home.

His contract with the funeral home was canceled years later, and he then left the bodies in his van for five months.

The tow truck driver who repossessed the van found the bodies in the back.

As part of Short’s sentencing, the judge ordered him to reimburse the families the cost of the cremations that never took place and make a public apology.

The billboard, at Highway 121 and Beach Street, reads: “I should treat the deceased in my care with dignity and respect. I utterly failed them, their families and the community. I am remorseful and I apologize.”

It is signed “Donald Short.”

Jacobs said the wording is clear, but that she doubts the apology is sincere because it was court-ordered.

She said the message had to be approved by prosecutors and the judge.

As for what was actually in her father’s urn, tests by the medical examiner showed it was “dirt and leaves,” Jacobs said.

She now has her father’s actual ashes, she said.

“At this point, after all the time that has elapsed and the emotional rollercoaster that has gone on and on and on, it’s time for closure,” Jacobs said.

Short was sentenced to probation, but Tarrant County jail records show he was jailed on Dec. 20.

Hugo Martinez, the Tarrant County assistant district attorney who handled the case, was not available for comment Monday. Another prosecutor who works with Martinez could not explain why Short was jailed but said he apparently violated terms of his parole.

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Here’s an outfit in Florida

looking for an affordable walk-in cooler. We offer several lines of walk-in coolers from highest quality to entry level equipment. We have over 20years experience in commercial industrial walk in settings. Looking to buy a cooler or freezer for a school, preschool or daycare? Give us a call. We can also outfit hotels, motels, catering, food service, restaurant, bar, mortuaries & funeral homes. We also do floral coolers.

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Promises- no mortuary jokes

That’s too bad, I was hoping for some mortuary jokes…

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MORTUARY TRANSPORT SERVICE
Attn: Dana Hall or Laurie Blotkamp
Not Disclosed, AZ, USA Listing #: 33145807
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Contact Business Seller

Asking Price: $270,000 USD USA Dollars
Business for Sale Industry: Services: Travel, Transportation
Reason for Selling: Another business venture
Year Established: 1993
# of Employees: 8 plus one owner
Yearly Revenues: $165,011
Yearly Cash Flow: $60,000

Business for Sale Overview:

This mortuary transport service has established an excellent reputation within the community based upon the highest level of professional and consistent service provided.

Property Features and Assets:

The sale of this business will include three vans for transport.

Market Competition and Expansion:

Reputation is everything in this industry and after 15 years this business has built an outstanding reputation for being consistently professional in all aspects of the services provided.

Additional Details:

* The property is owned.
* The owner is willing to train/assist the new owner.
* The owner is not willing to work for the new owner.
* This is a homebased business opportunity.
* This is not a franchise resale opportunity.
* This is not a distressed business or bankruptcy situation.

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