Month: January 2015

Cancel The Burial

January 29, 2015
Grief

Calling off a scheduled burial is no easy task. Everything scheduled in addition to the burial – church, minister, flowers – has to be called off as well, and the vital records office has to reissue a new death certificate with the corrected burial date. So if you want to cancel a burial, you need…

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For Some, It Never Ends

January 24, 2015
Grief

“We just got a death call and you’ll never guess who it is,” my manager told me. “Remember that lady who came in a few weeks ago when her son got murdered?” “Yeah, I remember her! Did she get murdered too?” “No. Her other son shot himself.” Oh. I believe there are limits to what…

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The Worst Thing I Have Ever Seen

January 18, 2015
Embalming

Everyone wants to know. No one wants to know about my best day on the job; about times when I really came through for someone or went far above and beyond or made old Mrs. Jones smile when she saw that I remembered to put the teddy bear in the casket. They want to hear…

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