In this TMI show, I talk about my Uncle Len, who passed away. I drone on about his funeral, and then share a new story in his memory, "Here With My Childhood Friend."
Note: The story is a sequel to "Who Can It Be Now?" which was presented in Episode 170 of the show.
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Logo by Gino "My Adulthood Friend" Moretto.
3 comments:
Thank you for sharing this. Your stories about your uncle reminded me of the Dunesteef story from 2014 - "In the Gloaming."
I heard that story on the way home from my Papa's funeral service, and I will never forget how your presentation helped me through that drive.
As a funeral director's kid, I always appreciate such honest discussions of how grief looks different on everyone, and how best to honor the memory of anyone close to us.
Your dad is a funeral director, then, but not you? I am curious about the argument of open-casket versus closed-casket. How many times does a mortician have to tell the family, "Listen, it won't look like your loved one. Are you sure you want an open casket?"
I worked for my dad for one summer, and that was enough to know it wasn't for me. I couldn't leave work at work, and 40 hours a week of grieving families wasn't something I could handle. Props to my dad and anyone who can swing it and remain empathetic.
I've heard my dad try to talk families out of an open casket many times. As you shared, so many funerals now happen after protracted illnesses that, for lack of a better way to describe it, leave the body as a shell of what the person was in life. Usually it's families making impossible requests of the makeup artists--like making their 90-year-old grandmother who died after a 5-year cancer battle look like she did when she was 70. Some families opt for a closed casket when they realize it isn't possible, others push through.
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