You joined this business because at some point in your life you realized that you could do something good in death care. Maybe you lost a loved one, and you wanted to use your pain and experience to help others walk through the difficulty. Maybe a funeral director’s love and helpfulness inspired you to want to […]

  Bad Table Manner Teacher It was passed down to me by my father, and down to him from his father.  When you work with death, you talk about death, even around dinner.  That’s all fine and good if it stays in-house, but when Jeremiah goes on his first date and starts rattling off what […]

I know what you’re thinking.  “Caleb, you’re reaching on this one.  You’re just looking to write a post that lets you pluck the low hanging jokes, like ‘Funeral directors can make you stiff’, etc.”  You got me there.  I tend to pick the easy jokes, but bear with me because this is a thing, a thing […]

When you’re a funeral director, your primary concern is people: both the dead kind and the living.  And when you serve people, you do some weird things to meet that end.  Death is all wrapped up in life, in the mundane, the messy, the maddening parts of living.  Since, death is wrapped in life, it’d […]

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.