Funeral Director Question Thread

[callfatekarma]

Hi SaSu,

New to this forum, but wanted to introduce myself. I am a funeral director working out of the US West coast. If there are any questions you might have about your funeral please feel free to type it on this thread or to send me a PM

Bye :)

 

[R. A.]

What brings a funeral director to a place like this?

 

[madameviolette]

What brings a funeral director to a place like this?

Wondering too.

They might be advertising, business is business after all

 

[MissAbyss]

Hi, welcome to SaSu.

Have you ever prepared someone for burial who asked to be dressed in something unusual?

 

[callfatekarma]

What brings a funeral director to a place like this?

Im surrounded by the morality of death on a daily basis and have had a number of friends ctb. Although I work in this profession there are are subjects and thoughts I have that would be unprofessional to bring up even amongst my coworkers, so thought this might be the appropriate outlet to express the thoughts I have and at the same time just happen to work in the industry so figured I would put that out there.

Wondering too.

They might be advertising, business is business after all

The opposite, I am a firm believer that most funeral homes are a racket to exploit families at their most vulnerable.

Hi, welcome to SaSu.

Have you ever prepared someone for burial who asked to be dressed in something unusual?

Plenty of people that wear clothes that pertains to their cultures that to my American perspective I would consider unusual. Other than that one that sticks out to me was a gentleman who worked in the fashion business who had 4 different outfits for 4 different parts of the funeral. Dressed very sharply.

 

[Grav]

So in my state in the Midwest, we're not allowed to put animal cremated remains in the same container with human cremated remains. Do you have the same restriction and if so why is that? I understand non cremated animal and humans mixing could be an issue but if both are burnt up it shouldn't matter that much.

 

[WhiteRabbit]

Weird how there have been multiple "ask a funeral director/mortician" threads in the last two years or so.

"What do you depressed fucks wanna know about the embalming process?"

 

[Whale_bones]

Weird how there have been multiple "ask a funeral director/mortician" threads in the last two years or so.

"What do you depressed fucks wanna know about the embalming process?"

Yeah, the thing that comes off as odd to me is they usually do the "ask a funeral director/mortician" thing as one of their first couple of posts (if not their very first post, like OP) soon after they've joined. They don't want to CTB themselves, and they don't spend time reading/interacting with others' posts and getting to know the community; their main purpose in joining the site seems to be to talk about their job.

I can understand someone who works in the industry wanting to offer their perspective (and I'm not saying this person isn't genuine, because of course I don't know) I just see it as strange for people who don't want to CTB themselves to make these "ask me questions about death" posts immediately after joining.