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What Legacy Really Means
By Rick Allen There is a particular kind of conversation that tends to happen at a certain point in life. It does not happen at dinner parties or over coffee. It happens late at night, […]
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Allen Family Funeral Options asks, “Whose Job is it, anyway?”
Whose Job Is It, Anyway?
By Rick Allen, Allen Family Funeral Options, Collin LIVING WELL Magazine
I am becoming more and more supportive of the concept of cutting out the middleman. Often this can make a product or service more affordable. It also seems like we are getting less and less service from service providers these days, so you wonder just what are we paying for when a third party is involved? […]
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Anatomical Gifts and the Impact on Funeral Tributes
Anatomical Gifts and the Impact on Funeral Tributes By Rick Allen We have all heard the saying, “It’s better to give than to receive.” Giving with a generous heart often warms the soul of the […]
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Follow your instincts in funeral preparation––Allen Family Funeral Options
A woman called me just the other day and I recognized her by name but was not able to immediately recall the details of our previous meeting. After a few seconds of conversation, I remembered everything we had previously discussed and the entire scenario became clear to me. […]
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The Benefit of Private Ownership
The Benefit of Private Ownership
By Rick Allen, Collin LIVING WELL Magazine
In the late 60s and early 70s the funeral industry began an era of consolidation. A third generation funeral director from Houston, Texas had the idea of clustering funeral homes together for the benefit of operating efficiency. […]
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Top 5 Myths of Funeral Services – Allen Family Funeral Options, LIVING WELL Magazine
Top 5 Myths of Funeral Service
By Rick Allen, Allen Family Funeral Options, Collin LIVING WELL Magazine
For many years, the funeral industry has been veiled in a cloak of mystery and even fear about the entire process. People have had fears about the funeral industry for a couple of primary reasons. […]
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The Buddy System, Allen Family Funeral Options, LIVING WELL Magazine
The Buddy System
Rick Allen, Allen Family Funeral Options
How many of us remember as little children being
told “hold my hand while we cross the street” or “don’t go out there all
alone?” These words of advice will stay with us our entire lifetime.
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Allen Family Funeral, Options on Grieving and Healing
By: Rick Allen, Allen Family Funeral Options, for SENIOR Magazine (Collin edition)
In our culture today there are those who would argue that viewing the body of a person who has died has little to no positive impact on family and friends. Others contend that viewing the body can have an altogether negative impact because it makes a difficult situation even harder. […]