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Funeral & Cremation Solutions Magazine July-August 2026 online issue.
Caity Soelberg
Publisher of FCS Magazine. I lead FCS with a genuine love for this industry and a mission to spotlight the people who make the funeral and cremation profession what it is.
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What No One Tells You About Setting Boundaries in Funeral Service
If you have ever given a grieving family your personal cell number, stayed hours past your shift because someone needed you, or said yes when every part of you wanted to say no — this one is for you.
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For Joél Simone, the work of funeral service begins inside the practitioner — with the essence she first learned from her mother's hands.
May/June 2026
On the cover: Mortuary Lift Company anchors FCS Magazine's May/June 2026 issue. Inside, feature editorials from Dr. Kimberly Wamba and George Paul III, the debut of Cold Hands, Hot Tips with Monica Torres, and a four-generation success story from Flowers-Leedy & Allen Funeral Home.
Families Aren't Saying No to Honoring Their Loved One. They Just Don't Know What's Possible.
Here's something that surprised me when I first started learning about the funeral industry. Cremation now accounts for more than 63% of dispositions in the United
What 70 Years of Serving Families Taught One Funeral Home About What People Really Need
There's a funeral home in South Georgia that has been showing up for the same families for three generations. Music Funeral Services in Lakeland and Valdosta,
Most People Will Only Walk Into a Funeral Home About Nine Times in Their Life. Here's Why That Number Changes Everything.
Stop and think about that for a second. Nine times. That's roughly how many times the average person will walk through the doors of a funeral
March/April 2026
On the cover: the world's first mobile embalming unit — a lab built to come to you. Inside, Erin Connolly on what accountability actually looks like in small-firm operations, and Anna Ciboro on why the cremation revenue problem isn't really about cremation at all.