Today’s guest post is by Lelial Thibodeau: 10. A funeral director knows how to stretch a dollar so far beyond capacity that extreme couponers would be seething with envy. 9. Funeral directors can get any stain out of any fabric. 8. Funeral directors understand the importance of paperwork. In triplicate. And filling it out is just […]

There are a couple reasons funeral directors don’t tell their stories. One, it takes a lot of tact to narrate funeral experiences that are so very personal, so sensitive and so interconnected. Two, the stories are often too complex to tell.  We sit at the hub of multiple narratives – the deceased’s story, the family’s […]

Last week, a high schooler asked me, “Why are you a funeral director?” After a couple days of thinking about the question, here are ten reasons I’m a funeral director. One: Service. A couple years ago, a granddaughter was giving her grandmother’s eulogy at the funeral home.  She shared that before she would take naps […]

I walk into a room at 6 a.m. and all eyes fix on me and my next move.  I am, after all, the odd one out in the room, the one whose face isn’t stained with tears; the one wearing dress clothes, who’s there in body, but whose soul isn’t in the depths. I’m the […]