[Fhios]

Making funeral arrangements for the deceased is hard to do. I expect to get hit by the beer truck sometime before January so I’ve been trying to make arrangements for my own Viking funeral so it’s a slam dunk and prepaid for.

I don’t need much as I’ve opted for plain cremation no services or reception. The only thing I want is for my son to know it’s my body being creamated by itself and my son is receiving my ashes. That’s been difficult to do because of the ashes ready for delivery after creamation is a bit long. It exceeds the five days he’s going to have to travel

So for me I look at the families of the deacesed and loved one having the responsibilities for carrying out the wishes.

[jocon307]

This is a good piece and shows some details of a job that most of us are glad we do not do. Thanks for posting it 2ndD!

[goodnesswins]

My good friend died in May....I made the mistake of touching her shoulder at the “viewing”...it was just a natural thing for me to do....aaaggghhhh...she was Frozen.

[Albion Wilde]

Years ago, we had a funeral director in our scout troop. He was one of the most amusing and upbeat parents, always smiling and joking—a relief from his work, I imagine. He and his wife and kids lived above the small funeral parlor, and since one of the sons was a troop member and expecting to join the business one day, the scout troop was invited to the funeral parlor for a tour of the work rooms (no remains were being processed at the time) and a Halloween sleepover in the visitation room. Eek! Eek! The experience did much to demystify the end of life experience for the boys,.

They were a wonderful Christian family in an old-time working class city neighborhood (this is a decade before the opioid crisis starting hitting white working class). But they eventually felt the need to move away from the city to a rural area, because of the horror of having to process a steadily increasing number teenagers shot in gang slayings from the nearby hispanic and black ghetto neighborhoods. Tragic.