The Death Business Is Booming—for Now

Plenty of businesses saw surging demand during the pandemic and are bracing for a hangover.

So when

Thomas Ryan,

chief executive officer of the innocuously-named

Service Corp.

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International, said recently that “2021 has exceeded our expectations” but that his company is “expecting Covid to have a negative pull-forward effect on revenue and earnings,” he could have been talking about exercise bikes, furniture or video streaming subscriptions.

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