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(#5) A Family Feud Ruined A Funeral
From user Mortician-for-hire:
"Funeral service person here, have to say that the saddest funeral I worked was the death of a 30-year-old woman who was very attractive and successful and had recently gotten married. Children and those in their prime are more bothersome, sure. But her family. Jesus.
Her husband had very little to do with the arrangements. I do not know why. So her father and stepmother were in control of the ceremony. The father seemed more unemotional than people I usually work with. Even people who don't seem stereotypically sad, have a level of anxiety or just a numbness of someone who hasn't full accepted it. I can't read minds or know someone's heart so I can't say for sure, but he did not seem to care what we did.
The stepmom was strange. I caught her snooping through areas of the funeral home not open to the public, like opening doors to storage closets, and she even made it into our casks loading area almost to the morgue proper before I caught her roaming. 30 minutes before the funeral she was worried about having time to go get something to eat. She got in to an altercation with I'm assuming the ex-wife in our foyer; that side of the family stormed out. She did not seem remotely concerned or interested in her deceased stepdaughter.
The deceased sister was handicapped and made noises she couldn't control when upset. (They also hadn't bothered to tell her that her sister was dead until the day of.) The family kicked her out of the service because she was interrupting. More visitors left because of this. This only left a few meager funeral attendees.
This made me particularly sad, because I think everyone deserves a decent funeral. The girl seemed sweet, caring, and full of life but instead of trying to celebrate her memory they just seemed apathetic. You see all kinds of emotions running through people working funerals, but I have never seen anyone act that disinterested and self-absorbed."
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(#1) Buried With The Babies
From user Fire_Medic:
"My best man is a funeral director.
A 'grieving' nephew walks up to my friend and says 'Hey, um, I'm gonna be bringing a cooler tomorrow. Is it cool if I put something in with Uncle Mark?' Now this is fairly common. Assuming they want to send Uncle Mark to the afterlife with his favorite frosty beverage, my friend says sure.
Next day nephew shows up and pulls a couple of unlabeled jars from the cooler and goes to put them in the casket. My friend walks over and asks what the hell is in the jars. Apparently, nephew's girlfriend has had a couple miscarriages and since they are 'devout Christians,' they believe these babies deserve a proper burial. They just weren't willing to pay for it. So to hear my friend tell it, the nephew says 'Well it's real expensive and so we've just kinda been hanging on to them in the fridge until my mom goes. But it's kinda freaking my (living) kids out so we figured we'd just bury them now. It's cool, right?'"
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(#4) When Grief Goes Too Far
From a deleted user:
"Separated parents are mourning the loss of their toddler at the visitation before the funeral. Mom is grieving unlike any mother I've seen grieve over the loss of a child, almost fake. She proceeds to pick up the child and 'hide' him in her coat and walks out the door while no one is looking. Other funeral director is like... 'holy sh*t, why is there an empty lil casket?' The other funeral director finds the mom running to her car where he stops her and grabs kid.
Separated parents have huge blow out at the visitation.
We find out two months later that the mother and her new boyfriend had physically abused the kid, causing its death. Biological father had no idea."
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(#13) Burying A Child
From user LazyNotTalented:
"Just last year I had the unfortunate experience of handing a mother and father their 18-month-old son wrapped in a blanket at the funeral. Trying to make arrangements with a young family who's just lost their first and only child has got to be the most sobering moment of my career. Picking out the hauntingly small casket with the parents was difficult as well. In a room surrounded by adult-sized, metallic caskets, they are forced to choose something that's slightly bigger than a shoe box for their son."
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(#10) Pallbearers Bear Witness To All
From user PallbearerThrowaway:
"As my account says, I'm a pallbearer. In the three years I've worked there, I've had some pretty weird funerals.
Once, a 16-year-old died because a self-made nail bomb exploded in his face. His friends, the white trash that they were, all arrived on scooters. A friend of the deceased stopped and put his helmet off. His father then said: 'Nice helmet, if our son had one of those we wouldn't be here.'
On another occasion, I saw the family smoking at the grave and throwing their cigarettes in the grave after they were done.
But the most awkward was the time I suddenly had something in my throat. It was right before the ceremony, so I rushed outside the church to cough. It was one of the longest coughs I've ever had, so my eyes were all watery when I went back. I only realized it when it was too late, and a woman noticed it. She thought I was super emotional, so she tried to comfort me the whole day. It was so uncomfortable, because I couldn't say 'Oh no I actually don't really care.'"
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(#7) Fist Pump At A Funeral
From a deleted user:
"I used to altar serve, and once witnessed a lady walk up to her mother's coffin as the perfect picture of anguished, raw grief, and as she kneeled down to kiss it, she got a huge, relieved, joyous smile and actually did the 'Yes!' fist, hiding it as part of the sign of the cross. She tipped us $50 each for serving, too. Weird."
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As most people say, the funeral service industry is dirty and strange, but someone must do it. The funeral is the last and one of the most important moments for all people. The funeral directors and undertakers speak for the dead person and are accustomed to anything related to death. We feel uneasy and scared when we see the dead body, but this is a daily job for funeral directors and undertakers.
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