Trigger Warning: This post contains descriptive language about suicide.  it also contains topics that might cause a loss of appetite for foods such as spaghetti or sushi.   One.  WEIGHT LOSS.  You’ve tried for 50 years to lose weight, you finally got it off, but your terminal cancer took this weight loss thing a […]

This is what I was recently told by a Pastor who was scolding me for offering cremation to our customers.  He was dead serious.  I — as per my usual self — attempted to lighten the somber mood with a witty joke by saying that all the bodies I burn are dead, unlike the bodies of […]

  In the world of embalming, there are a couple embalmers who are damn near miracle works.  Legends of the industry.  When I was in school, our embalming professor worshiped an embalmer named “Jack Adams.” If the funeral industry had saints, Jack Adams has worked enough miracles to be canonized a couple times over.  But there […]

Morticians have been taught that embalming is the foundation of the funeral business.  That without embalming … we’d be buried.  During the modernization of America and at the beginning of the “American way of death”, embalming was the foundation.  But we no longer exist in a modern paradigm, we exist in plurality and fragmentation with “American ways (!) […]

In the frustration of multitasking the details of four new calls, I decided to channel my angst into some spring cleaning.  A new computer arrived yesterday, so in between the set up I threw all of our old lets-save-this-cause-we might-need-it tech in the dumpster. After cleaning out the second floor of a tape player, two […]