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AyMiOjo172 karma

...Creasey's art is death. He's about to pain his masterpiece...

Love that movie. Man on Fire has to be my favorite Denzel movie, but it's a tough call; I have at least three other fav's of his.

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My dad was a homicide detective, I've seen lots of crime scene photos, and I'm just now realizing that in all those years it never really occured to me that a company may be called to come out and clean up the aftermath. For some reason when homicides and suicides happen in the home I always figured the surviving family cleaned it (probably because my dad's dad was dying of cancer and committed suicide when it got really bad (gunshot to the head) and my dad was the one who dealt with the clean up).

Who calls the clean up company? The police or the family? And when homicides & suicides happen in public places who calls for clean up? Are there a lot of companies like this? How much notice did you get? I imagine your work hours were pretty sporadic if they called right after the crime scene investigation was completed.

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Thanks for your reply! I figured it was probably something like that but wasn't sure as I know other AMA's have time limits.

Sounds like you worked for a great reputable company and that you had a great work ethic as well which served to make the company even more reputable. I was thinking this morning before logging onto Reddit how honest it was of you and your employees to count all the coins and surprise the older couple with them after their hoarding cleaning. I know I'd do the same but there are people I imagine who'd have no problem putting those in a box, calling it trash to be taken out then driving off with $110k.

I know what that drop everything, plans have changed lifestyle is like. On holidays when we'd head over to my Aunt & Uncles who lived about an hour away, my dad usually drive separate as he'd inevitably his pager would start beeping and he'd get called out. During holiday get togethers some families just don't get along - years of anger built up, add alcohol - someone dies. It's sad.

Hope you enjoy your new career path with your family - thanks for sharing your experiences and for your reply and answers!

AyMiOjo2 karma

Thanks - I wish so too, maybe he got busy or I asked too late. It feels kind of weird that I can't recall wondering and asking him about it - he always talked to me about his cases because my mom flat out didn't want to hear about them and I was a curious kid who also understood he needed to talk about these horrible things instead of keeping them inside so asked a lot of questions.

Kind of interesting timing to get me thinking about it again - in 3 days it will be 20 years since my dad died of a massive heart attack after retiring 10 years early due to heart problems. It's not an easy job to have and takes a toll on health & relationships.

Thanks for your comment :)

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Thank you, yes - great memories. He was a great man, great father and awesome at his job - very highly regarded by everyone he worked with and made lots of families lives better by finding their loved ones killers and bringing them to justice, often reopening cold cases and solving them as well.

I kind of chuckled when I read you're a funeral director because when my dad was a kid his best friends family were funeral directors and lived above or in back of the funeral home so from a very early age he'd been exposed to dead bodies and heard the stories of how they died. We always speculated that was a big catalyst towards him wanting to be a Homicide Detective when he grew up. That's all he ever wanted to do and that's what he did and really excelled at it.

That's quite a job being a funeral director - you must have a lot of compassion and empathy. That kind of care, consideration and gentleness means a lot to people grieving and often in shock over the death of their loved ones.

I'm sure your kids will have great memories of you as well - like I mentioned yesterday, on July 10th it will be 20 years since he died - he still comes to mind every day and the memories always make me smile.