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In the US we have morticians to make death look "human" again.

Ever talk to those guys? They can tell you the most gruesome jokes. I think you have to have a certain mental attitude to become a mortician or an undertaker. In high school we had a guy called Rat Galgano whose father was an undertaker and he talked about sleeping in the caskets in the funeral home. There was also an Elmore Leonard novel that went into some detail about what morticians do. Not pleasant so it takes a certain kind of personality for that.

I worked in a hospital for years, I would come home in hysterics at some of the "hospital humor" but other people somehow failed to see what I though so funny...

I considered becoming a mortician for a while, but I found out I have the kind of mind that dwells on things. Not a good quality for that business.

It is amazing to find out that people can get broken, just like things. I remember seeing a man who a brick fell on his head. It looked just like a shattered china plate. And a woman with tire tracks across her.

But the dead deserve our notice. It is the last attention they get on this earth, and sometimes they have important things to reveal, good and bad.