HE ROLE OF FUNERAL DIRECTOR

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Keywords
funeral industry, funeral director role, funeral industry management

Abstract
In general, the public not only in the UK, but in the world, has very limited knowledge of the funeral industry, yet feels easy to criticize it or judge the ones employed, and associateted with the funeral industry. Unknown but, nevertheless, inherently stigmatized role of the funeral director is investigated.

Identifying managerial issues in the course of researching the chosen area of study allowed authors to recognize the conflict between the empowered funeral director and disadvantaged, by the virtue of distress purchase, bereaved customer.

JEL: M10
Pages: 10

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