anybody wants to get into the mortuary business?

[asiancivicmaniac]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081101/wl_nm/us_mexico_drugs_dead

maybe there's something wrong with my expression of affect since i got a chuckle when i first saw the title. could be the irony of making money off someone else's misfortune though.

 

[Gary Allan]

We can go several ways here. It kinda reminds me of some of the Clint Eastwood films with the undertaker poised to measure up likely clients...

..or we could tie it into some free market discussion.

 

[moribundman]

Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
It kinda reminds me of some of the Clint Eastwood films with the undertaker poised to measure up likely clients...


That's funny. I was going to post the same thing a few hours ago, but I got sidetracked. I wanted to mention specifically High Plains Drifter. When the stranger rode into town, the local mortician/undertaker/barhop sensed immediately business and unholstered his yardstick.

 

[Gary Allan]

It's the dark comedy of it all....

 

[TooManyWheels]

Free makeup - how can you resist that offer?

 

[Gary Allan]

Originally Posted By: TooManyWheels
Free makeup - how can you resist that offer?


I want you to use all your powers ..


Yes ....Godfather. I'll even throw in free makeup.

 

[mrsilv04]

My sister's first husband was a mortician, and she was a beautician.

Guess who did the hair? It took her a while to get over it, but made really good money doing the hair.

 

[Crusader]

My brother in laws brother was a mortician and even lived at a funeral home. Then one day he went to pick up the corpse from the morgue that had been sitting in a house for 2 weeks. He said he could smell it as soon as he got with in 30 feet of the morgue doors. He drove the hearse back to the funeral home with his head hanging out the window. They put the corpse in at least 5 body bags with all sorts of chems and sealed the casket the best they could. But it still could be smelled during the funeral. In fact the funeral home stunk for a months after this. Little old ladys would ask what's that smell.

He quit the biz shortly after this.

I could never work in this biz - just too morbid and I would always wonder where the person is spending eternity.

 

[Gary Allan]

Visions of the coroner's autopsy room in The Enforcer as he examines the exposed brain as Tyne Daily has her first visit

Hey, Harry ..LOOK! It's say "eat at Luigi's"

 

[Kestas]

I remember in high school one classmate aspired to be a mortician. His reasoning... "Hey, the money is good". Can't fault him for that.

 

[Audi Junkie]

I was thinking of offereing Viking-style funerals here at my country place. Funeral pyre is a theme that crosses many cultural boundries. Not until Constitene and Theodosis was burial prefered. Still, seem like a cool thing to do in the back yard. Don't you think people would pay for an outdoor cremation at night by some guys in costume?

 

[moribundman]

Originally Posted By: Kestas
"Hey, the money is good".


Not only does a mortician not ever run out of business, he also will become a customer eventually.

 

[Pablo]

You plug 'em, we plant 'em.

 

[msparks]

OMG, you just gave me an idea for a TV Show.

Orange County Choppers type show but for "Themed Funerals".

Can you imagine. "We have 48 hours to get this together, people throwing stuff around in a frenzy to get a John Deere Tractor Themed funeral?

You would never run out of themes, this could be a hit show!! I would watch it. It's always good to have a mix of tragedy and comedy thrown into some sort of "reality based" show.

 

[ekpolk]

Originally Posted By: Audi Junkie
I was thinking of offereing Viking-style funerals here at my country place. Funeral pyre is a theme that crosses many cultural boundries. Not until Constitene and Theodosis was burial prefered. Still, seem like a cool thing to do in the back yard. Don't you think people would pay for an outdoor cremation at night by some guys in costume?


I'm guessing the neighbors might take issue... Back in my early days in the Marines, I spent a couple deployments at an MCAS in Japan. Real estate is so scarce in Japan that they pretty much either build out, or plant, every square inch of flat land. Well, right across the fence, maybe a dozen feet, max, there was a local crematorium.

Anyway, they fired the thing up twice a week, and there was no mistaking it when they did. I'll never get that smoky-sweetish-pukeworthy putridity generated by the incineration of human remains. Yecch.

You'd have to set up the funeral pyre business waaaaaaaaaay out in the country...

 

[ekpolk]

Quote:
anybody wants to get into the mortuary business?
Ummm, no thanks.

 

[UncleS2]

Joe Bob's Funeral Home- You stab 'em, we slab 'em. We give S&H Green Stamps. Use our layaway plan!

Here in NE Texas, all through grade & high school, our textbooks were furnished by the school system. The paper book covers were furnished- by the local mortuary! I can still see 'em now- mostly brown heavy paper, sometimes white, precut, with strategically placed areas of lick 'em/stick 'em envelope-type glue. And when installed, they proudly proclaimed that the book covers were furnished by Nail-Haggard Funeral Home! Even had a line drawing picture of the- ah- establishment. Other businesses contributed too, had smaller ads on the covers, but the funeral home shouldered the lion's share & had the *Big* ads. They're still in business too- heck, for all I know, they might still be furnishing book covers.

 

[daves66nova]

Originally Posted By: Crusader
sitting in a house for 2 weeks. He said he could smell it as soon as he got with in 30 feet of the morgue doors.
My dad was found dead, hog-tied in his bedroom after about 2.5 weeks in 105 degree weather.I almost threw up at the pics the cops showed me.

 

[Tempest]

Originally Posted By: daves66nova
Originally Posted By: Crusader
sitting in a house for 2 weeks. He said he could smell it as soon as he got with in 30 feet of the morgue doors.
My dad was found dead, hog-tied in his bedroom after about 2.5 weeks in 105 degree weather.I almost threw up at the pics the cops showed me.

Yikes! Very sad indeed.

 

[Audi Junkie]

Mmm, kay.