I wrote this blog post four years ago.  The photo I used in that post had wee little Jeremiah resting on my chest.  Four years later, and Jeremiah occasionally comes to the funeral home “to help dead people”.  Times have changed — for one, my hairdresser now trims my eyebrows — but these […]

One.  Can I ask you a weird question? THERE ARE NO WEIRD QUESTIONS.  Dying, death and death care are clouded in a sense of mystery.  After our loved ones die, they’re whisked away by the hospital staff, or by a funeral director.  Once at the funeral home, the body is either transformed through embalming or […]

Over the course of my career as a funeral director, there have been a handful of times when I’ve had to call on my friends to help me with a removal.  All but one of my friends have answered my call with a, “Yes, I’ll help you.”  Driving to the deceased’s home provided me with just […]

Answers.com recently unpublished an article entitled “10 Terrifying Things About Funeral Homes You Didn’t Know”.  Although I appreciate attempts to talk about death and funerals (and I do appreciate the fact that they took the article down), the sensationalized “answers” in the article, which I put in quotation boxes, are much more concerned about garnering […]

One.  Short Graveside Services on Extremely Hot or Extremely Cold Days Sweat rolling down your back and into your underwear while you bake in the sun for a 45-minute graveside service is almost as equally painful as losing the feeling in your toes and fingers while you do the same in the winter.  Funeral directors […]