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Transparency, Governance, and the Future of Selected

From early on in this project, I wanted to have deathcare salons, where several people turn over a topic and evaluate everyone else’s. It’s different from a debate because no one’s trying to win, and with any luck, we all know a little bit more by the end.

This is in this ballpark, although everyone is essentially supporting the same thesis, which is that selling Selected Independent Funeral Homes to the NFDA is likely a mistake.

Our conversation is more about the process, which has become maybe a little more take-it-or-leave-it than anyone intended it to be. It’s important to add (as I…

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