At Your Expensive Funeral Home/Cemetery Are You A $#, Or A Person?

Most funeral homes and cemeteries are expensive and getting more expensive yearly.  It is expensive to die in America.  Many funeral homes and cemeteries are now owned by large publicly traded companies (Service Corp. International, Stewart Enterprises, StoneMor Partners, Carriage Services, etc.).  These companies are under great pressure to report higher revenues and earnings to satisfy Wall Street.  They pay their top management ridiculously large amounts of money via salary and bonuses and stock options (as their stock prices have appreciated very little over 10+ years!).  They have expensive sales management tiers in place, even as their rank and file workers are paid very little.  They all have sales staff at funeral homes and cemeteries that are paid by commission and are under intense pressure to meet sales quotas.  Therefore believe it or not you can experience intense sales pressure at these high expense funeral homes/cemeteries.  You will be a sales # thing, not a person.