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AnonymousBrownsFan54 karma

Oh this is a good one... Let me think.

This one time the family was very nice throughout the visitation (this helps make our job a little easier and makes things more comfortable) and most of them were not from Ohio, so they were looking for things to do for the night. They happened to be drinking throughout the visitation (not uncommon). After the visitation the family was getting ready to head out and one of the grandsons (probably about 21-24 years young) of the deceased starts walking towards me with his family and slurs the words "Let's go to the casino and hit the slots, shots, and sluts" and the whole family erupted in laughter. I turned around from the family and laughed hysterically.

That same kid ended up throwing up in the bushes in the back of the funeral home the next morning of the funeral day because he was so hungover.

There is a Hard Rock Casino right up the street from the funeral home.

AnonymousBrownsFan41 karma

I did dress the bodies...

The craziest outfit I ever dressed an individual in was when a Bishop passed away. He was in one of his outfits that he rarely ever wore. Including his crazy hat. I am Roman Catholic so that was very interesting.

He also had a crazy casket.

Hat looked like this: http://d1lalstwiwz2br.cloudfront.net/images_users/tiny_mce/kboyer309/phpfdohny.jpeg

Casket was hand made and looked like this: http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/746278/746278,1331047243,2/stock-photo-casket-top-view-96882352.jpg

AnonymousBrownsFan38 karma

We actually contract out a company for limos and hearses. But I have taken our van home before (which has been used to transport bodies).

AnonymousBrownsFan37 karma

Cleveland Browns. NFL Team.

An assistant does basically everything except take care of the family when they come in for arraignments (That is the Directors job) and we also do not embalm the body (That is the Embalmers job) and you must be licensed to be a Director and or Embalmer.

So we dressed bodies, put flowers in the room, casketed the body, picked bodies up from hospitals, nursing homes, actual homes of the deceased, cleaned up the funeral home, took death calls, washed the directors cars, washed our vans, etc etc.. you are fairly busy all day.

AnonymousBrownsFan36 karma

Yes, absolutely.

There was 1 individual I can remember specifically. He was around my age (I believe he was 20 years young) and when I first saw him I had to step away and just think about things. That was one of the couple times I couldn't shake it when I went home. It was running through my head for days.