Funeral Home Director (JoJo)

"People need a viewing, i usually say, because there has to be some kind of closure."

I think this is definately true. I've gone to a few funerals, mostly for grand parents, but a few for friends. One of my grandparents had a closed casket because he was Jewish. Usually Jewish families try to keep it as "organic" as possible. The bodies are not usually embalmed. Since pap was shipped from Florida to PA he had to be embalmed for "sanitary plane shipping", but it wasn't done to the full extent of an open casket. There was no make up. Having gone to his funeral and not been able to see his body, it still confuses me to this day. Was that really pap in there? or was someone trying to play a sick joke on me? It's so much easier to physically see the body in front of you.

"The first thing that people in the hospital say is, well what funeral home do you want? You know the ink's not even dry on the death certificate and they need the morgue space, because they only have like four spaces down there. That's it.. four."

This was really interresting to me. Not so much the fact that the hospital is after the family right after a death, because everyone needs to get paid, but the fact that there are only four spaces for bodies in the morgue of the hospital. Wouldn't you think there would be more? I mean, people die in hospitals every day, and they only expect to have four at a time? Weird.

"I appreciate life more because i do this."

Anyone who is around death all day, i would expect them to appreciate life more. You see people who are shriveled up, or even young people who were in accidents or committed suicide. It would make me want to live a more fufilling life because of the constant reassurance that life doesn't last forever.