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 […]

Some of these 10 things are things that I hate.  Some are things that are universally hated (i.e. tissue gas) by those of us in funeral homes.  While others are things that industry funeral directors love to hate (and when I use the term “industry funeral director” I’m talking about the sycophantic, uptight company men […]

Funerals are the perfect storm for drama.  Death brings out all sorts of emotions and because we’re not used to emotions like grief, it’s more difficult to control our emotions as a whole.  You might say things that they’ve been thinking for years, like telling your brother, “You’re so rich, YOU should pay for dad’s […]

One.  We Hobby Hard. Nearly ever funeral director I know has a hobby.  I know a clay sculpture, an antique car restorationist, a golfer, a dragster driver, a pole dancer, exercise fanatic, a colonial home restorationist.  Most everyone has a hobby, but it seems funeral director invest themselves heavily in their hobbies to provide a […]

A morgue miracle occurred today. I was doing deeds that are done in prep rooms, deeds that shall not be described in detail in this forum. Unlike many embalmers, we use an old school electric aspirator instead of a hydro-aspirator. One of the disadvantages to the electric aspirator is that the aspirated contents go into […]