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ASD is excited to spend time with our clients and friends in Charlotte at the 2019 ICCFA Annual Convention. Head to ASD's booth to see an interactive demonstration of our award-winning ASD Mobile app and our new MobileFH™ Texting feature. Read our blog to learn what else you can expect at our booth this year. PLUS: 7 Cool Places to Explore in Charlotte.

Working in the funeral business, you know there are many humorous situations and dilemmas that only other funeral professionals could understand. To illustrate some of these unique challenges, we’ve created 11 memes and GIFs to illustrate the everyday struggles of being a funeral director or embalmer. Hope this gives everyone a good laugh!

The “ASD Extra Mile Award” gives our employees the opportunity to commend one another for a job well done. This award fosters positivity in the office and helps us to spotlight employees who go above and beyond to do a good job at ASD. Our staff appreciates being able to recognize their fellow colleagues and the different ways they contribute positively to ASD.

In honor of Valentines Day, ASD wanted to relay how grateful we are to work with the funeral service community. There are countless reasons for why we feel fortunate to work in this profession and why we feel funeral directors are the best clients any company could have. Here are just some of the many things we love about funeral directors.

ASD is pleased to share this guest blog post from The Recovery Village, an organization that offers comprehensive and personalized addiction treatment for individuals on the path to recovery. In this guest blog post, the organization outlines several resources that funeral directors and other support professionals can provide to help families cope with complicated grief of a drug-related death.

Funeral director characters on TV shows and movies have little to nothing in common with the real people who devote their lives to serving grieving families. So many of these misrepresentations are decidedly negative and have reinforced false ideas and misinformation about the death care profession. Here are 5 funeral director character tropes we think should be put out to pasture.