The Co-operative FuneralCare of England recently came out with a “Top 20 Pop Songs Requested at Funerals” list based on requests made at 30,000 services over the last 12 months. Before I get to the Top 20 list, FuneralCare has this to say, which I think is really interesting: Figures show that pop music has replaced […]
Our funeral home doesn’t have a secretary. We answer the phone ourselves. When you work at a funeral home, any call could be a death call, and it would be really awful if someone called us to ask for our help with a death in their family and we don’t pick up the phone. So if […]
I was going to write something about politics, but decided there’s more important ideas to be shared: like the ideas in this Women Funeral Directors Meme. FuneralOne posted this meme on Facebook and it’s pretty good.
There’s a number of different grief models that have been proposed by various psychologists. Some are good, some … not so much. I’ve always advised that it’s dangerous to see grief work as linear. Grief rarely works in a stage-by-stage process. Rather, it’s usually cyclical. We feel and think (x) for one week; the […]
Having just arrived to work, I walk into the office and found a paper tablet with the inscription, “So-and-so is at the Brandywine Hospital. Released. Coroners Case. Autopsy.” I loaded the pickup van, stopped at Dunkin Donuts on the way and a half-hour later I was at the Hospital. I went through the normal procedural […]