How many of you can say that you’re friends with a mortician?
Every circle of friends has a car guy, a computer guy, a music guy, a sports guy. Why not a death guy?
Besides, you almost need one of those around just to answer all the creepy questions that everyone inevitably has. When was the last time that you spoke to a funeral director when death wasn’t on the line?
Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt
The folks over at REDDIT threw out the challenge and had a Q&A WITH AN EMBALMER. Here are a few excerpts of things we learned along the way:
- The average person equals 5-7 pounds of cremated remains
- Most funerals do not need limos, flower cars, catering, expensive caskets. All these “add ons” are things you really don’t need the up-charge on
- Embalming isn’t necessarily required by law. So you may not need to pay for it if you don’t want it
- There is such a thing as a “rental casket”, that is a casket that’s only used for the viewing. (We know. Ew.)
- If you die while wearing a dinosaur costume, they will cremate you in it. While laughing their asses off.