Evolving Funeral Practices: Modern Trends
Course Overview
This course will bring funeral industry professionals up to speed on current trends in the funeral profession, with an emphasis on green funerals, cremation, and burial practices. It examines how the industry has evolved over time and explores which current funeral trends are likely to become tomorrow’s standard practices. The course also delves into the underlying reasons for these shifts in funeral preferences and services.
Learning Outcomes
Upon the completion of this course, the learner should be able to:
- Identify the opportunities for memorialization and personalization
- Recognize the rising demand for technology in funeral services
- Focus on funeral profession changes and trends
- Define the primary goals of green burials and requirements for certification
- Describe alternatives for a viewing without embalming
- Illustrate the components of a home funeral
- Compare and contrast traditional and natural cemeteries
- List ways cremations can be made more green
- Outline natural burials, alkaline hydrolysis, and natural organic reduction
- Explore examples of extreme individual personalization in funeral service
About the Author/Presenter
Taylor Walding is a duly licensed funeral director and embalmer in the state of Texas since 2013, and has been in the mortuary industry since 2005. While completing mortuary school in 2011, he interned at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, first learning of the wonders of anatomical embalming then, after graduation from Dallas Institute of Funeral Service, Taylor apprenticed as a funeral director in 2012 at Brown's Memorial Funeral Home in Irving then in 2013 as an embalmer at Restland Funeral Home in Dallas. In late 2018, Taylor returned to UTSW as an anatomical embalmer, learning of the variety of benefits to both families and fellow embalmers in the field.
Audience/Accreditations and Approvals
Colibri Healthcare
This course is designed for the following healthcare professions:
Funeral Director
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