Interview Topics
-Burial or Cremation – what to know before you choose;
-Emerging Trends in funeral service;
-Innovative ways to “personalize” a funeral so it is unique and memorable;
-What to know when selecting a funeral home and a funeral director;
-How to plan your own funeral to make sure it will be exactly how you want it, and how to pay ahead;
-How to help a child after the death of a parent or sibling;
-Connecticut’s consumer-friendly laws about funeral service and financing;
-New methods for disposition that include Terramation/Composting and Alkaline Hydrolysis;
-“Green” Funerals and Burials – with an environmentally friendly twist;
-The “next” generation of funeral directors – the surge in young people entering the field;
-Increasing number of women funeral directors shatter the “men-only” image;
-What type of education and certification are Connecticut funeral directors required to have?;
-Unique burials: at sea, from planes, and other unusual locations;
-Support groups to help grieving spouses, parents, and children;
-After national tragedies, how funeral directors put focus on life instead of death;
-“Streaming” funerals On-Line so relatives and friends around the world can “attend”; and
-How diverse cultures and traditions honor the deceased – similarities and differences.
Media interested in scheduling interviews should contact CFDA's media director Laura Soll at 860-688-4499, M 860-833-4466 or Laura@sollpr.com
CFDA'S MEDIA DIRECTOR
Laura R. Soll
CFDA Communications Director
President, Laura Soll Public Relations, LLC
860-688-4499, Cell 860-833-4466, Laura@sollpr.com
www.sollpr.com
Proudly representing the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association for over 25 years, Laura manages its public and media relations. With close to 40 years in Southern New England communications, her firm is the recipient of three First Place Gold Mercury Awards from the Public Relations Society of America's Connecticut Valley chapter.
Laura is responsible for positioning CFDA and its individual members as experts in the funeral industry through communications that reach and influence a wide variety of audiences, locally and nationally. She works with television, radio, print and online reporters and editors on local, state, and national topics, and coordinates appropriate efforts with the National Funeral Directors Association. The Northwestern University graduate’s work for CFDA and its member funeral homes has resulted in stories in such influential media as the The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CBS Evening News, ABC's 20/20, and all of Connecticut’s daily newspapers, broadcast TV, and major radio stations.
Please call her if you need support or have any questions.