Funeral homes. Collect, prepare, present, and dispose.
It is an entire industry.
It exists to relieve The body must be dealt with within days. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Funeral and disposition regulation. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
Solving that problem created new ones: The grieving are sold to at the worst moment. Follow those and you find the next generation of products built on top of this one.
6 organisations in this map sell it, 2 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionFuneral homes
- FrictionThe body must be dealt with within days
- Life phaseDeath
- Rooted inMortality
- Rooted inSafety
Relieves
Created these new problems
Second-order frictions. This is where most of the modern economy actually lives.
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service Corporation International | $12B | public · SCI | Dignity Memorial funeral homes, cemeteries, Neptune Society cremation |
| Park Lawn Corporation | $0.9B | private | funeral homes, cemeteries |
| Carriage Services | $0.7B | public · CSV | funeral homes, cemeteries |
| Batesville | private | caskets, urns | |
| Dignity (UK) | private | funeral homes, crematoria, pre-paid plans | |
| Co-op Funeralcare | mutual | UK's largest funeral director |