My boyfriend is a funeral director and I made up fliers on the school copier to help drum up business. I’v been placing them all over town, but the hospital seemed to be the best spot. I haven’t told my boyfriend about this, but a classmate saw the flier and said it was distasteful.
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it could be a little ironic. Technically it’s a good idea. Morally it would be in bad taste. But I bet it’s pretty effective
wow yes y dont u go to a nursing home
It is way beyond distasteful it is abhorrent. I would kill anyone who did that if I had a family member in ICU. Even thinking to do that is appalling. You really need to think about yourself your motives and your lack of any decency or good taste. If your mother father or child was in ICU would YOU want to read about funerals? Would YOU give any business to anyone who did that or would you spread the word about the incredible lack of taste or decency they demonstrated by doing this to people who are struggling with so much as it is???
I see you have a kindred spirit here. whatever you do, do NOT go to a nursing home that is very bit as bad or worse. People have no common sense, decency or taste these days.
Marketing is tough. Unfortunately your clients are the sick and the old. However, maybe you can find an alternative way of doing it. Like instead of a flyer for funeral services, some kind of letter of hope and encouragement for those going through a tough time, recommending your grief counselors or something.
Why would it be considered distasteful?
They are simply being placed in the most useful to everybody spot.
After all, who at a restroom or something needs to know information about a funeral home.
it’s like leaving weight loss brochures at a buffet..it’s just not right
Think of it this way… people in the ICU are fighting to live… not waiting to die. That being said, every hospital has grief counselors and social services staff for their patients and patients families. These staff members are dispatched to help the families of those dying, and are armed with all sorts of flyers and information – usually relating to support groups and public services.
Information about the funeral home a burial services can only help these hospital staff members serve the families – should the question arise – which often does. DO NOT leave fliers in the waiting area – that is the wrong way to do this.
Further, speak with the same type of staff members at a hospice. Hospice patients are there to die comfortably, and family of the patients are more in need of this information.
~oh yes, I would say so. At the ICU, the last thing a person needs is to see something about a funeral. They need to have encouragement and hope. Place them somewhere else~
Hi,
It would be best to collect those fliers from the hospital and never put them there again.
THat is very disrespectful to those who are at the hospital to get a cure. If they need a morgue, then they will look in the yellow pages, or someplace else.
Imagine if you and your mom went into the hospital or a doctor’s office and someone walked up to you and said “You will need this service in a couple of days, here is our flier with our phone number”.
Would you call that company and say “Hey I was at the hospital last night, and I need your services for my mom, and I saw a flier while sitting in the lobby” . . . .
I would pick another company.
Find anyplace else to find more business. I bet that his dad is going to have a lot of questions to answer today, if the Hospital staff has turned over some fliers to their legal department.
Flyers in the ICU waiting room would be extremely disasteful. However, many of the hospitals I have been in have places where fliers can be placed perhaps near the entrances and exits and bulletin boards. It also reaches a broader base – those who are slowly ailing in the hospital and are never moved into or out of ICU, and also would be somewhere that those with loved ones in ICU would need to walk by, as well. Bear in mind that while it might be an appreciated thought for a few, many people with loved ones in ICU might be there as a result of a sudden illness or accident, and they would be shocked to find such advertising in such a place.
With that being said, at many hospitals I have seen, many funeral homes purchase subscriptions to inspirational magazines or purchase inspirational books to leave in ICU waiting rooms, with a small tag that says, “Courtesy of ‘XYZ Funeral Service’,” and I would see something like this to be acceptable.
I am surprised that you have not be contacted by the hospital for your lapse in judgment.
Bad choice.
Not only distastfull its very unethical
While it’s commendable you want to help your friend establish his business, use those desktop publishing skills to help him find other marketing outlets, like trade magazines or newspapers. Perhaps consider taking out a sensitive ad in a senior-oriented paper. Many people would be understandably angry to find fliers like these at the hospital unless specifically requested.