No worries, friends, I didn’t solicit a random corpse to *play* the dead person in this video. The esteemed actress was none other than my wife, who willingly agreed to play the part because she really, really, really loves me (and I promised her infinite back rubs for the next calendar year). With that aside, […]
This post is collected from the Confessions of a Funeral Director Facebook community: One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine.Ten Eleven. Twelve. Thirteen. Fourteen Fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen. Eighteen. Nineteen. Twenty. If you’re interested in the life of a funeral director, here’s my story, told with humor, spirituality, and transparency.
Death positivity is simply embracing that part of ourselves that we so often deny: our mortality. As an extension of embracing mortality, it’s also being willing to move towards dying, death and the dead. By that definition, being death positive doesn’t mean that you wear black all the time and avoid the sunlight at all […]
Don’t worry, I’m going to write a post about the ways the funeral industry has succeeded. But for now, here are ten ways we’ve failed. One. Disconnected from Community This is where things start to go horribly wrong. If you don’t have a personal investment in the community, if you don’t love the customers you […]
You may have seen this article floating around the interwebs about the decaying foot that popped out of a neighboring grave as the family of Cleveland Butler was burying him in his grave (pictured above). A couple things: this doesn’t seem to be an Onion article, although that is exactly what I thought it […]