Date: March 18, 2025
Time: 1:00 - 1:30 PM ET - followed by Q&A
It is the sacred duty of the funeral professional to ensure that the contractual wishes of the family of the deceased are met, if not exceeded. A critical part of this responsibility is maintaining a secure funeral home chain of custody to ensure the deceased is always treated with dignity and respect. This includes the iron-clad guarantee of their identity throughout the process and a consistent, complete record of the chain of custody at every step. This includes funeral homes with or without a crematory, cemeteries, combos, and stand-alone crematoria.
Cremation poses an even greater risk. Cremation is final. You cannot un-cremate someone. Because of that and the fact that no DNA remains after the process is complete, cremation holds the highest amount of risk and liability for a funeral professional.
The Importance of Chain of Custody Body Tracking
Larry Stuart will explain what chain of custody is and why it is important to your business. Perry Gard will then demonstrate how businesses can use Halcyon to do chain of custody body tracking.
Three Benefits Attendees Will Get from the Session
Perry Gard
Perry directs business development for Halcyon Deathcare Management Solutions. Halcyon by Batesville has been providing software solutions for the deathcare industry for over 24 years.
Perry, who has been with Halcyon for many years, leans on a career spanning experience in engineering, process automation, business development and IT management.
Larry Stuart, Jr.
Larry Stuart, Jr. is the Founder and Principal at Raven Plume Consulting, President and Founder at Cremation Strategies and Consulting, and the former President at Crematory Manufacturing & Service, Inc., a leading manufacturer of technologically advanced cremation equipment. Raven Plume and Cremation Strategies help funeral professionals serve more families, better by providing expert leadership, planning, organization, training, education, process improvement, and strategic planning for the funeral profession.
With a mission to Change the Way People Think About Funeral Service, Larry has developed a more relevant and effective approach to marketing funeral service to the public, written cremation training curricula and funeral service standard operating best practices, spoken at numerous professional events, and trained and certified thousands of cremation professionals across North America with the ambition to advance the safety and efficiency of their facilities, the safety of their employees and to foster a more positive impact our community and our environment.
