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Ottawa - Non-profit co-operative aims to undercut traditional and no-frills funeral providers
Bereavement shouldn't be a profit-driven industry, says Mark Goldblatt, the man who hopes to chase traditional funeral homes out of the Ottawa mortuary business.
MoreA Growing Share of Canada’s Funerals
Cooperative funeral homes have proven a highly successful model in Canada, and especially Quebec. The cooperative movement is growing, with 9,600 deaths treated by funeral cooperatives in 2011 in Canada, up more than 5 percent from 2010.
MorePeru - A co-operative model in Barrancabermeja
COOPSERFUN, a co-operative for burial services in Barrancabermeja, was founded in 1994. It was the first step towards an important co-operative integration project which got its start thanks to the commitment made by the representatives of 13 co-operative institutions.
MoreSweden - How Fonus made funerals affordable
"Men in black plundering estates" was how newspapers depicted the Swedish funeral industry in 1944. So outrageous was the price of burying your dead that the debate reached as far as the Swedish parliament.
MoreFuneral Co-op Movement Growing Year By Year!
The funeral co-operative movement is growing year by year in Canada, and this year reached a new milestone. The Funeral Cooperative Network has surpassed the mark of 9,600 deaths handled in a year! This is uncharted territory for our movement.
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