The Morbid Truth About Working As A Mortician
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- You might be surprised by just how many people line up every year to intern for free for their dream funeral home jobs. Seriously. There are tons of people who believe that being a mortician or death industry professional is a calling. But one of the many compelling funeral director facts is just how hard it is to become a funeral director.
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I dated a mortician, and he was the most wonderful guy! He treated his deceased with so much respect.
Did he bring you to work?
My grandma told me to be more afraid of the living than the dead…boi was she right
I read that quote elsewhere. You will rarely see a level of wisdom like that in these times.
My dad always said you don't have to worry about the dead. It's the living who can hurt you.
@@virginiacaston1456not quite true, the dead can be worrisome if they decide that lying 6 fee under is boring 😂(just a joke)
Why tf would you be scared of the dead? Lol tf they gonna do?
@@shadywiskerz If they are up and walking, who knows
Great Appreciation for all the great Morticians and their Staff
A guy I dated (now husband) was hesitant to tell me he was once a funeral director due to the usual negative reactions he got when he told others about this. He was pleasantly surprised when I started asking questions and engaging in a conversation about it. 1. That profession is absolutely necessary. Death is inevitable - no need to hide from anything associated with it. 2. my sister was a funeral director as well so I did have some basic knowledge of the profession.
Same
I’m married to a mortician. I was so interested about his job on our first date. I love telling people he does that.
He's the mortician or the embalmer/funeral director?
@@seanwebb605 both
@@seanwebb605 both
When I worked as an undertaker, my gf at the time and I both enjoyed it too
My sister-in-law is a makeup artist and hairstylist of the dead. I love that fun fact about the woman my brother married!
I remember I wanted to be a mortician when I was 16 going on 17. I was sure if it. I wanted to help give the dead a voice. But that all changed when I was on a flight to Texas, and I was seated to a nice man that made small talk with me. He asked if I had any plans for my future and I told what I was aspiring to be. He chuckled and asked me if I was sure. I told him I was certain I wanted to do this. So he asked if I could answer I few questions about the topic. I said sure, I didn’t mind.
He proceeded to calmly ask me 5 questions that made me change my mind.
1.Have I ever seen a decap’d child or mutilated baby?
2. Have i ever seen a decaying body, or even smelled one.
3. Would I be ok with working on a loved one, like my parents or spouse?
4. Would i be ok working on just a torso, bc not everyone is in one piece when they arrive on your table.
5. Am I susceptible to having nightmares?
I’ll never forget these questions, as I couldn’t answer any of them and was in shock that I had never thought about those things
That is a very helpful person, very important things to think about!
Sadly, I can answer those 5 questions. My bestfriend is a medical examiner. I have observed autopsies and even assisted with one in a minimal capacity. It is not something that everyone can handle. I had greater respect for death after my experience(s). Never had a decomposition case, thankfully. I will add that the utmost care is taken in respecting the deceased during an autopsy.
I was considering a career to be a mortician too until I thought about about those things. I’m too much of an empath and too sensitive for it. I couldn’t deal with seeing a child, loved one and/or friend. I’ve always wondered how someone in the industry actually handles those situations though.
Same. I used to want to be a mortician too. But the thought of working on dead children or babies would break my heart.
I also would probably never want to eat or be able to stomach food again after seeing and smelling dead bodies.
The first year on the job will be difficult and I'm sure that is when people who can't handle it will quit. I guess the more you are exposed to the morbid sights, and smells you get numb to them and eventually they won't bother you anymore. The average person wouldn't consider eating food out of a restaurant garbage dumpster however if they end up spending a significant amount of time homeless, they'll be eating garbage dumpster food like it was a freshly cooked meal. Our body's ability to adapt to extreme things is a basic survival mechanism that comes in handy for people who work in the death industry.
My grandfather was a mortician in the good ol' retirement capital of the world, Florida. Palm Beach, FL. He said many people were dying to get in. He was a funny guy, he spoke in puns. He was rich until he got sick and boom, it's all gone. I miss him.
Sounds like a good guy, you have to be to do that job
Such a short paragraph and yet I am totally invested in this person. I bet he was the coolest grandpa ever. I'd have been pestering him to take me to work with him lol👻
@@TurdJesus he was a good guy. He really loved family and protected his grandchildren fiercely!
@@flowersforthedead5182 He was pretty cool! He took us grandkids around on the back of his motorcycle just down the street and back but we loved it.
My condolences
I work at a hospice. I'm around dying & death 12hrs a day, 3 days a week. No two deaths are alike. Some are peaceful & some are a blessing.
Does it make you more comfortable with the thought of your own death?
One time I knew a guy that was an airbrush artist on motorcycle tanks. He was a mortician and had a rock band. All the band members were morticians as well. They were trying to come up with a name for their band.......... There was a long pause and an idea came to me, I said, "Why not call the band The Deadbeats"
They did not crack a smile , they just had that cold dead look in their eyes. I think they were stoned
It’s always cool guys like that who are morticians, guess you have to be
@@TurdJesus - They like the Alice Cooper song, I Love he Dead..
I have been inside the mortuary a few times. Loked inside a fridge once. Guy had his bag of lunch in there but you will ever guess what other things were being kept cool........
I worked in a funeral home , I really loved my job and working with people. I lost my job when Covid hit,it broke my heart to lose my job. I still haven’t been able to find a job since.
One could say that Covid would boost that particular business.
Do you have a strong support network?
Locally the crematorium had to hire and become more creative with covid and post. They expanded their guest area, so memorials can be held before the nody slides into be cremated. So check with your local crematorium to see if there is work. I think people found it cheaper.
Deadling here!
Love that you mentioned Caitlin!
Highly recommend Ask a Mortician, her videos are amazingly well done, informative, and funny!
I like this video. Quite humorous! I've worked in the funeral industry for many years. It is rewarding but one doesn't have much time for a personal life. You are pretty much on call 24/7. The reward is the families that you help.
So plenty of graveyard shifts?
I worked at a mortuary for most of my college student time. It was a good job for a student. I worked every other night and every other weekend. Yup all night and on thew weekend I was there for over 36 hours. A nice small apartment stye room was in one corner of the building. The job was morticians assistant and night guard combined. Plenty of time to study and was off by 8 AM on weekdays for class. Got paid to sleep for most of the hours I was there unless the phone rang in the middle of the night.
Embalming became popular in the US before Lincoln was assassinated. Embalming and new techniques for preserving and treating bodies began as the death toll from the civil war rose. There were morticians who accompanied the troops everywhere they went. This meant the dead could be preserved quickly and efficiently and sent back to their families while still recognisable.
An interesting aside, there were new coffins at that time that were metal with a glass window so people vould see the ebalmed face.
The story of Lincoln's funeral train is interesting in itself. Most of the Civil War dead were piled into trenches in the field. Many cemeteries have markers that say they contain unknown soldiers that were mass buried on the site.
9:40 Compassion fatigue is an issue that is sometimes talked about daily in the nursing field.
I worked at a burial vault company for 10 years. You would be surprised what the mark up is on caskets and vaults. And you would be surprised what can happen during a funeral. The stories I could tell
Please do tell. What happens?
@@PeaceNinja007Jinx!
One of mt nieces tried to climb into her grandfather's casket at the viewing. She was 16 or 17 years old.@@PeaceNinja007
@@jamesRice-ig2sf At 16/17? 😲
Yup. She and Pop were quite close, this was just a "publicity stunt". @@PeaceNinja007
Great vlog! The narration is the best. My partner passed in our home in ‘21, we had minimal hospice assistance. I had no idea what to expect, I never watched anyone die before and I was overly sensitive about seeing bodies at open casket wakes. But he passed very peacefully, so that helped me not feel seriously uncomfortable about seeing his lifeless body. I called the funeral home, he wanted to be cremated. They came right out, packed up his body and it was gone. It only costs thousands if you think that the body was actually the person. It’s not, the soul was and that is what passed over. Save your money for a memorial party and celebrate the soul you enjoyed while you had the opportunity.
Thank you for your insight. I want to add that I think people get overly emotional about possessing cremains. From what Ive read...Most of the body goes up the crematorium chimney leaving behind metals and baked bones. The bones are crushed into the "ashes." The metals are recycled.
@@naturalnashuan people get overly emotional, period. Everyone, thing, phase is temporary and the more we try to control and possess the less of life’s authenticity we actually experience and then it’s over. ✌️☀️
WTF?!? How incompetent and corrupt was that dentist who couldn't get the teeth out of a dead person and then charged $800 for his FAILURE?!?
Thank you for posting another great video!
I currently work as a Funeral Director in Australia. It is such a privilege to come alongside families and help them in one of the most challenging journeys. One thing I always say to my families is that if at the end of the service their loved one could look on and say 'That's exactly what I wanted then I feel I have done my job well. I am constantly being asked to pass on the family's gratitude to our mortuary team because of how incredible their loved one looks. It is a challenging job at times and I have had my fair share of tears, but there is a peace in my heart knowing that this is what I am meant to do, help families in their time of need.
Much love to all those who work in the Funeral Industry.
P.s we don't have rental caskets of coffins here in Aus.
Thank you for what you do. Rental caskets are sometimes used in the US when the person was badly mutilated and not embalmable. Their body can't be at the funeral or is cremated. I knew a couple who were beaten to death and burned. They had rental caskets at their funeral.
I mean I know people need a break but It was a sigh of relief when I heard ur voice
HE'S BACK! 😊
that's an alarming thing to say on a video about dead people
@@albertorkenbjorken This channel's dead without him.
Now that's funny!!!@@LinkinVerbz44
Honestly I think the worst part is how I remember my mother in her coffin I mean I remember her alive aswell but everytime I think about her that's what I picture
Yeah most of the world doesn’t do the whole “gawk at a corpse thing” it’s fuckin weird.
When my dad died, I don't know, for me it was comforting seeing him in his casket because it was the last time I was going to see him before saying goodbye. Weird, I know.
@@Taragoola It's falling out of fashion. Now many families are handling internment without a public viewing and doubling back with a Celebration Of Life sans corpse weeks later.
Yeah some find it comforting but I like to remember her alive and doing what she loved vs lying in the coffin also the mortician did a fantastic job in her makeup but yeah it wasn't the way she did her makeup something you don't think about oh yeah let me die all dolled up yeah most go without it so it was a little strange and when I think about her I get that picture of her in the coffin and I would prefer not to honestly all in all tho I'm glad I saw her again it had been a few months
I feel the same about viewings. The image of the corpse replaces the images of the living person to me and I don't want to remember people as objects. When I should feel emotions at a funeral I think about what the corpse is wearing. My aunt was buried in her usual biker clothes....that she wore to my graduation and wedding.😂 It's been about 20 yrs since I've been to an open casket funeral, I think most people don't want them.
Someone I used to work with changed professions and he's now in this line of work. Haven't heard from him in a while, but one thing I'm fairly sure of: he'll never lack for customers.
I'm in school for it now, Excellent job security for only needing an associates degree
Excellent! I'm a Gen Xer, we had too much college education and debt for 4 year degrees. Right after I graduated I discovered that the US needs people to go to trade schools and work as apprentices. There has been a lack of skilled professionals in many industries for decades. Most classes in a B.S. degree program are B.S.
I could never be a mortician. Though, I do have respect for those who are.
8:58 That Emma Crawford Coffin Races, parade, and other festivities looks awesome, very cool!
So excited to be going to school for this in the fall!
When i graduated high school about 100 years ago, and my parents were pushing me towards college , i went for a seminar on becoming an undertaker / embalmer. It seemed like a clean , and well respected profession to me, but when i bought the literature and booklets home to present to my parents , being they would be paying for my school , they were shocked and wondered what the hell was i thinking. I didn't get into the profession. I quickly dropped out of jr. College after a couple of years , and went to work for the railroad.
Yes, our main man is back❤❤❤❤
I already have my final arrangements paid for and on paper. I train cadaver dogs, so I have extensive rural priperty where I am certified to dispose of medical waste. When I die, I'm not having a formal funeral or being embalmed or cremated; I'm getting buried on my own property in a compostable shroud. Cheap as hell, and future human remains detection K9s can use my property for training, as well.
That sounds like an amazing plan! To be one with the earth that you loved so much.
Thank you for training cadaver dogs, it's important work.
Thanks for the usual narrator!!❤
Finally the OG narrator is back
Hallelujah he’s back
Great video!! Love our favorite narrator ❤
I need to disagree on your statement about the cost of a funeral. When my dad died in 2015 it cost alittle over $10,000 and he was cremated. His internment was free because he is in a military cemetery nearby. My uncle (who also died in 2015) had funeral costs of almost $20,000 but he lived outside NYC. My husband, a military veteran, died last summer 2023, and it cost $12,000 including cremation. I have heard from friends that the cost for their loved ones funerals were $15,000 including burial plot in a our local cemetery. This is in the FL panhandle so things are alittle less expensive here than other larger communities & cities. I would re-verify with real life individuals first before claiming that a full funeral costs only $7,000. Otherwise, the video was great, and informative. Thank you!
It depends on where you live and what mortuary you use. Family run mortuaries are not as likely to nickel and dime you as corporate ones. I worked for a family run mortuary who only charged 25% of the initial base funeral cost for children under the age of 5. They are also more willing to have a custom funeral for someone in terms of incorporating things that are non standard (such as a decedents motorcycle being displayed in the lobby for the service, or permitting the family to use a pick up truck to transport the casket to their church instead of a hearse). CORPORATE mortuaries are another story. They will find every and any little thing they can charge you with and do it. They are also extremely rigid with funerals, and sometimes will not humor anything that is not standard or traditional. They are ALL about making money, and even sitting in the lobby in some of them and overhearing staff talk about families is offputting. They upcharge most things, and will try and sell you the most expensive caskets, urns, and other options before they even show you cheaper options. (If you go on their websites, some have casket and urn selections. I guarantee you that these are sorted from high price to low price.) There are things that they CAN do or offer, but if they do not make a profit, they will usually not disclose those options to you. Also, if a mortuary has a cemetery attached, cemetery reps get paid on commission. So of course, they will show you the most lucrative and expensive plot options first because of this. They are NOT interested in helping families; they want money. (I worked in a corporate mortuary and it was APPALLING how they tried their best to get grieving families to fork over their money. They drove the nicest cars and wore the nicest clothes because of the commissions. They LOVED to show it off, and genuinely did not care at all about the families. They would sit in their office and laugh at them most days.)
@@christinabissinger9550 Thank you for telling us this!
This narrator has become my new Casey Kasem... he's got that genuine "everyman" kind of voice.
Does anybody know if he does any other narration work? 10 mins once or twice a week is not enough for me!
I’ve been to the Emma Crawford Coffin Races in Mantiou Springs, CO - it’s a wild time!
Embalming isn't required. It's completely optional. If you don't have to wait for the funeral service why would you add chemicals to the cremation process or in the dirt. Also, you don't need to do it the funeral parlour way. There are a million ways to do funerals & burials, green/clean burials & natural burials that you can do yourself.
This is one job that I couldn't do
50 years ago my husband’s cousins lived in an old mortuary near their work. He said ever so often their plumbing would back up with human remains. Later I worked with a gal who wanted to do the makeup for a deceased one😕And we knew a mortician that said some people would buy a very expensive casket out of guilt. Oh yeah what we think as a hearse is the First Call Car.
1:53 That is actually very similar to the storyline for "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner (1930).
There's a new trend of human composting. Basically, your body is put into storage with wood chips until your body is broken down into mulch. Then your body can be put to good use.
I just met someone who already bought her own composter. She chose the species of tree that she will become and the location too. I like that. Whatever happens in any possible afterlife, at least you became a living thing again.
What jazzy "adult entertainment" music this video had in the background! Haha!
My uncle Myron was a mortician for over 43 years…said that he liked the work but sometimes it was pretty stiff…
$7,000 for a small space in the ground for 2 urns. There's a fee for opening and then closing the hole.
They could've just asked me, I would've dug up the hole for free 😠
Another $6,000 for a simple urn ceremony of 1hr.
They go too far ..
You can’t take it with you, but you sure can’t go anywhere without it.
My Dad alway joked that he was taking his $ with him. I asked how he could do that if he was choosing to be cremated. He said he was going to buy travelers checks because they replace them if lost in a flood or fire, and not only that they hand deliver the $$$.
Please do one on flight crew the evolution of flight crews pilots, flight attendants, gate agents, even ramp agents please!! I’m a flight attendant myself and love your videos ESPECIALLY your voice!!!!
I second that, my aunt is a flight attendant.
@@btetschner crazy career!!!
@@wotaykamara9203 Do you have some stayover place when a bunch of flight attendants stay at?
@@btetschner do you mean a crashpad? Or every night we spend out of base, in that case they give us a hotel.
@@wotaykamara9203 I am not sure what it is called, but one of my acquiantances (who was a flight attendent) would stay at a place where 12-18 flight attendents would stay. They were never at that place at the same time and he never met a lot of them.
23 years working as a paramedic and oftentimes close with the coroner or the funeral home staff and sometimes both. They’re such good people to the living and the dead! No matter what time of day you called them to come out or if you saw them at the hospital they were always in a suit. It’s true that the dead cannot hurt you. I wish people were not scared of the dead.
I used to work as a server at a Denny’s when I was 18 and 19 years old. I used to work overnight shift and one of the regulars was this young guy, maybe in his late twenties then, and he was dressed in suits all the time. So I was curious about what he did for a living, cause he was always dressed up like a mobster, and he said he was a mortician. Long story short, I was fascinated with his work and he would tell me stories about his job, and everything about it. I could never do it, even as much as I was fascinated at the time. I don’t have a strong stomach for that kind of stuff.
The mortician of my hometown is Al Hitchcock (no joke).
Feeling like watching Bones and Crossing Jordan when it comes to mind. This is something else.
Chippendales, without the outfits hanging out in cemeteries to pose for a calendar, educating us about death...... Nothing at ALL creepy about that 😳🤯
Omg, I just love this channel 😂
So happy ask a mortician was mentioned! I could not love her content more and y’all are definitely in a similar cinematic universe
This was interesting.
I was considering going to work at a mortuary once.
It probably wouldn't have been all that bad.
I don’t have a big enough level of empathy to work in the funeral business 😅 It’s not that I’m unkind, I just can’t relate to strangers’ emotions very well
My uncle was actually late to his own funeral. The graveside service was 3 hours away and we were all at the cemetery at the time the service was to start and the hearse got stuck in traffic.
2:26 That image at the top reminds me of Elvira!
If Vala's Pumpkin Patch had a #1 choice for a celebrity resident, it should be her!
Im a retired mortician and I loved this video and the humor in it!!!
I met my hubby in 2000. One of our first dates was embalming a plane crash victim. He never batted an eyelash. We married on Halloween and have had quite an interesting life together in these 24 years together.
They are building a NEW cemetery in my city, it's so new and technologically advanced that I heard people are just "dying" to get in!
Funny!!!
When I asked our funeral home if they print up refrigerator magnets they don't. I asked why? And the funeral home said I've never been asked that before.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who asks unexpected questions! I lke to interview people casually, like a "Cactus Installer" I met in The Villages, Florida. You don't plant a non-native cactus there - you "install" it.😩 Ooh! We don't have to use only the emojis that CZcams shows😅
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Fascinating topic and great humor!
Thank you for this video! 😀🌷
A video without Tom Blank is a video ignored.
Damn y’all really don’t want him to ever have a break do you?
Is that the narrators name?
You know, at this point, I don't care who narrates the videos anymore. I know Tom Blank is our favorite narrator, but come on! Will you all stop complaining about who narrates? It's just getting old.
@@_ksm0922his voice is not that bad.
@@alicerivierrethe others guys voice sucks though. Sounds like a kid
After taking a personality profile test for suggested careers, I was told at the age of 19 I'd be a good MORTICIAN.
I didn't do that, I work with children instead! 😂
Thanks for this! 💀
do an ep on weird mortuary stories. my friend was a funeral director and she had plenty stories. ❤️ peace
Cmon, share a few with us!
Love your vids man 👍👍
When I was in Junior High, there was a Mortuary called Crawford's Mortuary in our town. My friend called them up one time for some odd reason on a dare, and a cheerful sounding guy aswered the phone with "Crawford's Mortuary, I'm SO sorry"! We found this absolutely hilarious, and we would call them every so often to hear if they ever changed their greeting and it was always the cheery "Crawford's Mortuary, I'm SO sorry".
Oh, the strange and memorable incidents in our lives.
welcome back, real narrator.
He didn't go anywhere - he just let a different narrator host the last video. Which is not new and has been going on for a while. They are all real narrators in their own right.
@@austinwald2731No. There is only one TRUE and HONEST narrator and this is they. I for one am glad they's back.
I'm sure the other narrators are also honest and trustworthy. As per real, I also believe are are indeed real as well. Not imposters or fakes. @@wirelessdirk
Compassion fatigue is definitely a thing. I was a hospice nurse for a few years. (Nursing carries a lot of this in general.) In a professional capacity, you have to maintain composure under tragic circumstances.
I imagine the smaller a community is, the more emotionally difficult their jobs are.
I'm spending time with a frend who works in caregiving for severely disabled people. Another of his clients died this week and he is very sad again. His clients die frequently.
We used to have a friend who would tell people he was a "professional boxer". The man was in his 80s at the time - and worked for an undertaker!
I have a newfound appreciation for this channel after what historians will refer to as "The Great Narrator Incident of 2024"
2:21 Speaking of mustaches...Chris Pratt is doing a Pringles commercial for the Super Bowl!
I worked as an estate and financial planner, talking with client everyday about death and taxes. So, I too, was faced with my mortality daily, which allowed me to become comfortable with it.
Great video. I love the dark humor. I do not work in the death industry but I am familiar with it and how it all works. Being a First Responder you see all stages of death decomp as well as the stages of grief and how people process it. Love the "to the point" narrative.
3:35 Victor Frankenstein removed corpses from burial sites in the book Frankenstein (1818).
It is considered to be the "first true science fiction story." (wikipedia)
Death rates up? Hmmm.
I want a sky burial I don't like the idea of being in a box underground and hate the idea of being burned to ash
I once worked with a guy (2003-2008) who’s family owned a mortuary in simi valley/Moore park area in California.. the guy I worked with was about to go off to the fbi training facility (we were armed guards together) anyhow one day he came to work so upset because his family members had been arrested for abuse of corpses (necrophilia ?) the only reason they were caught was because the wife of the son had gotten a strange infection, had gone to the gyno and the gyno was in shock explaining that the infection was only seen in dead bodies.. she went to the mother in law told the story (diagnosis) and the wife expressed that she too had had issues in the past… they worked with the Drs which opened an investigation and the father son team were arrested for their crimes against the dead… no idea what came of them etc and I haven’t ever been able to find anything online in regards to the case.. probably too much for the public to handle 🤮
The guy I worked with was in no way involved and was able to go on to his dream job with the fbi 😅 hope he’s doing well 😊
5:40 we what know say 10k? B.S. Leave us at the morgue, a paupers grave in the potter's field is very cost-effective!
you killed this video i almost died laughing a couple times
Honestly, morticians et al. get a bad rep they don't deserve for the very necessary service they provide. They should stop being treated as creepy and respected for doing what most of us are too squeamish to do but someone does need to do (or else we'd have rotting corpses just lying around - ew). I couldn't do it, could you? Thank a mortician, an embalmer, a grave digger. No matter where you stand politically or in any other aspect, we all need them.
I, thankfully, don't work in that field but am comfortable with death. Maybe it's because I don't believe so I don't fear hades. Maybe because I'm 66 in poor health and living with several health conditions where I have a 50-50 chance of unaliving without warning but I just view it as a natural part of life and nothing to be feared. I'd much rather cease to exist naturally than be kept unnaturally alive as we all too often do these days. Science does, sometimes, go to far.
o7 To anyone reading this that works in the crucial field of disposing of our bodily remains. Thank you for your service.
4:08 My friend has a dog whose stage name is Air Bandit!
Speaking of gold teeth…if a body is cremated, what, if anything, is done to recover precious metals like gold fillings? Is the amount of precious metals so insignificant as to be of no value? Also, when corpses are drained of fluids, is the effluvia diverted into special holding tanks or into the municipal reclamation system?
I am going to watch the videos:
x How Lincoln's Assassination Created The Billion Dollar Funeral Business (1st Recommendation, second time watching)
x The Most Haunted Graveyard On Earth (2nd Recommendation, 2nd time watching)
x A Doctor Tried to Resurrect George Washington From the Dead
x The Bizarre Saga Of When Jesse James's Corpse Went On Tour
1:22 The music video "This Is What You Came For' by Rihanna and Calvin Harris is fantastic, it's like a club dance in an art exhibit!
0:04 Reminds me of the music video "Wide Awake" by Katy Perry!
Always great to see a labyrinth in a music video!
8:49 I have never seen sand sledding before...but that looks fun!
I've always thought that Funeral Director had to be a steady income job. Resistant to financial fluctuations and politics - people are going to die at pretty much the same rate unless war or pestilence come to town in which case things get rosier. I considered it, found out how we in the West actually treat our dead and noped right out. You don't have a person's funeral 3 or 4 weeks after they expired simply by putting the corpse in a fridge. Look it up as to what is pumped in and out to preserve the corpse. It's a good job most of us end up burnt at a crematorium, if we were interred to a grave with that much preservative in us we'd be perfectly formed in 1000 years.
Weird obsession with the carcasses of the deceased is rife - it's just that, a crab shedding its shell, it has no use any more and the person isn't there any more. What's the point in maudlin over a cast off carapace?
Anubis is actually the god of funerals and mummification, Osiris was Lord of the Underworld.
I about die at every pun... apt subject.
2:53 Nick Johnson, from the YT channel Nick Johnson, puts on a silly mustache and acts like a rugged cowboy on his recent videos.
He explores and analyzes towns and cities by travelling to them, seeing the sites, and hanging out with locals.
I've wanted to be a mortician since I was a kid but haven't been able to find a mortuary in 30 years that will give me a chance. So now I just sweep floors.
I think there's a good reason why this particular occupation retains the Family Business format pretty firmly and pervasively. It's actually a quaint throwback to the Olde Gild System Days ... aka, The Middle Ages ... of Western Europe.
In Bucoda, Wa, they do coffin races during the month of October.
My favourite job I ever had. Pity the pay forced me to move on. Hoping to get back into a similar job as a forensic pathology officer
"Gold teeth." Good one.
1:22 My girl Kate Snow, from NBC Nightly News, said "if you are watching..." to Stephen Curry during an inspiring story and asked him to contact them.
He saw the broadcast and did contact them, then they did another inspiring story continuing the first inspiring story!
Right after I saw that, I watched Stephen Curry's film Underrated (2023), awesome film!
"You know Daddy,there are only two certainties in life.Death and Texas."-Kelly Bundy😮😅