Income Statement (USD $)	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2014	Mar. 31, 2013
Revenues:
Insurance premiums and other considerations	$ 13,129,447	$ 12,421,543
Net investment income	5,642,500	5,001,017
Net mortuary and cemetery sales	2,831,062	2,877,523
Realized gains on investments and other assets	198,993	842,578
Other than temporary impairments on investments	(30,000)	(30,000)
Mortgage fee income	22,537,538	33,262,881
Other income	743,736	476,692
Total revenues	45,053,276	54,852,234
Benefits and expenses:
Death benefits	6,675,493	6,756,419
Surrenders and other policy benefits	515,612	750,249
Increase in future policy benefits	4,367,443	4,551,741
Amortization of deferred policy and pre-need acquisition costs and value of business acquired	1,403,642	1,493,905
Commissions	10,560,881	17,570,585
Salaries	8,916,464	8,178,698
Provision for loan losses and loss reserve	372,093	552,289
Costs related to funding mortgage loans	1,297,685	1,607,235
Other expenses	9,789,813	8,856,600
Interest expense	497,864	807,276
Cost of goods and services sold-mortuaries and cemeteries	490,299	499,614
Total benefits and expenses	44,887,289	51,624,611
Earnings before income taxes	165,987	3,227,623
Income tax expense	(27,139)	(1,194,357)
Net earnings	$ 138,848	$ 2,033,266
Net earnings per Class A Equivalent common share (1)	$ 0.01	$ 0.18
Net earnings per Class A Equivalent common share-assuming dilution (1)	$ 0.01	$ 0.16
Weighted-average Class A equivalent common share outstanding (1)	11,786,353	11,613,952
Weighted-average Class A equivalent common shares outstanding-assuming dilution (1)	12,227,249	12,658,895