Providing the death care industry with quality products and services are the goals of vendors with vision, a commitment to their profession and the needs of the industry.                            

The advancement in technology and a conscience effort to include quality, has given rise to leaders in the field of death care products manufacturing with advances far beyond the Origins of Undertaken” as written by David Burrell.                                 

California Professional Manufacturing, INC. has grown because their customers have turned to them in their time of need. They feel this has happened because of their ability to manufacture quality products, and supply your needs in many other areas, at the lowest price possible.                             

Their accomplishments and innovations have enabled them to move ahead and expand their services to provide you and the industry with greater service at more reasonable prices. Click here for your Funeral Home, Mortuary Equipment and Supply needs…

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Need helpful Software in any of these Departments?

•   Funeral First Call  - Services - Embalming Data Entry

•   Embalming Fluids  - Statistics and DC information   

•  Obituary  -  Crematory  - State and Federal Forms

•   Accounts Receivable  -  Funeral Trust Management

Sterling Enterprise Management Software is designed with integrated information between the Funeral home, Cemetery and Crematory. Less work converts to higher productivity resulting in increased cash flow.

The purchase of this unique software is not where your business profit ends. It’s where it begins! Better time management equals minimizing record keeping hours. Reducing operating cost while increasing production by permitting use of recaptured time to promote and generate more business. Check it out… we are confident you’ll be  impressed

Origins of Undertaken by David Burrell

In 1963, journalist Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death exposed the American funeral business as a cause for national disgrace. With unceasing wit, Mitford portrayed funeral directors as greedy and heartless, dedicated to manipulating people at their most vulnerable. With lies, feigned sentiment, and cynical marketing techniques, America's "deathcare" industry purportedly had instituted a multi-million dollar burial racket. Instead of offering dignity to the dead, funeral directors had lured Americans into the false values of "beautiful memory pictures" and spring-cushioned caskets. Death, like good breath, had become a commodity. 
Outraged, Americans responded to Mitford's muckraking with "sunshine laws" and an inevitable re-examination of how the dead should be treated. But apparently it wasn't enough, for funeral industry exposés live on. In recent years, scores of magazine articles, television broadcasts, newspaper exposés, and best-selling books have focused on the consolidation of American funerary businesses into heartless, profit-driven empires. Indeed, the modern media seems always to have found funeral directors and the costs associated with death to be good copy, not only since 1963 but for many decades previous. Jessica Mitford may have been called "Queen of the Muckrackers" for her thrilling and insightful jabs, but she was no pioneer. Even her simple title "The High Cost of Dying" had already been employed by Christian Century (1936), Collier's (1951), National Maritime Union Pilot (1961), The Economist (1962), and book author Ruth Mulvey Harmer (1963) before her work. Since then, The Examiner (1996), Houston's KPRC-TV evening news (1996), and CBS's 60 Minutes (1998) have similarly followed suit. 

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