I’m coming up on 10 years licensed, a significant milestone considering that my embalming professor told me that 70% of funeral students never make it to the decade mark. To be honest, I never thought I’d make it this far. After I graduated mortuary school, I told my dad, “I think I’ve only got about […]
We had a funeral last week for an elderly man who died under hospice care. The family requested that the hospice’s chaplain, Chaplain Gerry, make a visit to their dying loved one. Gerry stopped around a couple times and made such a positive impression on the now deceased and the family that they asked […]
I recently stumbled upon a clay crafter named Sherri Evans. Sherri is a funeral director and embalmer with a fantastic ability to custom craft clay into anything. Here’s some of her work: She even does personalized faces. You can send her a photo and she’ll make you into clay. Aren’t these little fluid pumpers the […]
You’ve probably seen those utterly disturbing pictures of caskets floating downstream from the Louisiana Flood. It’s horrible. The stuff of nightmares. You probably have some questions: Why do they float? Can those bodies be easily identified? Shouldn’t the vaults keep them contained in the ground? To the first question. There are a couple of kinds […]
I’m writing a book, which is why my blog, Facebook page and Twitter account has been in a state of hibernation for the past eight months. The second draft will be sent off to the editor in a week or two, at which point I’ll be a little more active on the interwebs. One idea […]