Category: Press Releases
Funeral directors say Government should mandate time to hold ashes
The Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand is calling on the Government to progress a recommendation making it clear when a funeral home can inter or scatter ashes following concerns about Morrison’s Funeral Home’s handling of ashes.
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Funeral directors say Councils not adequately supporting dignity in death
New research from the Funeral Directors Association highlights growing concerns that rising Council cemetery costs and declining service standards are making dignified end-of-life choices less accessible for New Zealand families.
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Fuel critical users - animal care in, deathcare uncertain
The Association has raised concerns about the government's new fuel response categories noting that funeral and deathcare is not mentioned at all in the list of critical users.
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Funerals don’t stop because of a fuel crisis
Funeral Directors are calling on government to recognise them as an essential service in any fuel contingency or priority-access planning and to consider temporary relief or support measures to reduce the need to pass on unavoidable costs increases to bereaved families.
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Grief education in schools expert visits New Zealand
Grief education is about to be added to the UK school curriculum, and one of the architects of the change is visiting Auckland next week to discuss how the change has been achieved.
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Whakatane local becomes youngest ever Funeral Directors Association President
Whakatane local, 30-year-old Bradley Shaw, has become the youngest ever President of the Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand. Mr Shaw, who began in the funeral profession when he was 16 year… Read more
Let’s make death a local body election issue
In the lead up to the upcoming local body elections, the Funeral Directors Association calls for Councils to be held to account for annual increases in their burial and cremation fees, which are a significant driver of costs for even the most basic funerals and compound the affordability challenges for those who rely on the Work and Income New Zealand (WINZ) Funeral Grant.
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Health Select Committee report fails to address real issues in funeral debt
The Funeral Directors Association says calls from advocacy group, Death without Debt, to simplify cremation paperwork is distracting Government from the real issues around funeral debt.
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Funeral Directors Association stands by Havelock North member firm
The Funeral Directors Association of New Zealand has come out in support of a member firm that is facing a last-ditch attempt by local residents to prevent a crematorium being built in Havelock North.
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