Definition of "funeral home" []

• An establishment in which the dead are prepared for burial or cremation and in which wakes and funerals may be held. (noun)

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• "According to Jessica Koth, the public relations director for the NFDA, grief products made their way into funeral home offerings about fifteen years ago."
• "“We first started coming to the NFDA convention in 1999,” Susan Zonnebelt-Smeenge told me when I stopped by her booth, for in addition to giving the seminar to funeral home employees on how to talk people out of choosing direct cremation, she and her husband, Robert DeVries, were also selling their four books and other “helpful resources” workshops, training videos, etc. at the Expo Pavilion."
• "But as the study of death and dying exploded in the 1970s—Vanderlyn Pine, a former funeral home director turned sociology professor, called it the period of “pop death”—the field developed its corps of grief professionals, even while a great many of them were attracted to such work for extremely personal reasons."