When I was in funeral school a couple years ago, “personalization” was the major marketing word that was being thrown around our business classes.  With the expected demise of and significant business increase from the individualistic Baby Boomer Generation, we funeral directors were told to expect a huge increase in the demand for a personalized funeral.

My teachers told me how funeral homes and the funeral industry were scrambling to meet the personalization needs.  How they were modifying caskets, vaults, modifying the positions of how the bodies are laid in caskets and how some people are even having their cremains rocket to outer space.

They told me how we, as newbie funeral directors, should expect to find that the cookie cutter funeral of our grandparent’s generation was dying.

What they didn’t tell us is just how weird personalization could be.  Here are five examples.  Please comment.

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2.  The guy in the corner isn’t moving.  

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7.  The guy on the motorcycle … um … he’s dead.

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