Funeral home

through to break down now. The funeral home was strange all the rooms were cold sort of like being in a walk in refrigerator. The carpet had this hideous huge flower pattern that only my eighty year old grandmother would find appealing. I wondered how many people threw up on that carpet. I felt like I couldn’t control my thoughts they were random and had no order or reason. Still had to move forward, had to finish and prepare, get things in order. I am listening to the funeral director, sort of…

It was a late night at the funeral home, but Jackie insisted on staying behind to finish embalming the local restaurant owner killed in a robbery two days ago. She was the last person left at the funeral home, so it was quiet. She could focus on her work, do the paperwork, and get home before 9:00 pm with any luck. As she began to do her work, she heard a noise. She looked up from her work to listen, but there was nothing. "I'm hearing things", she thought to herself. "I need to get back to…

The day was March 4, 2004 at 2:33 A.M. My sister, mother, and I were staying at my grandmother’s two-story home for the night after she and my father got into another argument. They had begun fighting a lot recently, mainly for the reason that my father had picked up the bottle once again. My sister and I were sharing a room and a bed. For some reason I had woken up. I guess I just knew something was wrong. I opened the bedroom door and was going to head to the bathroom when I was blinded by the…

to the locker rooms. The contrast between the sterile North Wing of UMMC and the rest of the medical center, which resembled the local mall begins to affect me immediately. Pulling on the one-size-fits-all uniform, I feel like I'm infiltrating a funeral home, and though I have been anticipating sitting in on the operation for weeks now, stepping into the ward- which is buzzing with activity as I stand by- seems as appetizing as watching a mortician butcher the thoracic cavity of some unfortunate…

The Narration of Death: How Traditions Narrate Death and its Effect on Community Throughout the semester, we as a class have examined numerous different religions and the traditions they follow pertaining to death and the afterlife. In many cases, death is seen as an extremely simple process: the dead gets buried and then you send sympathy to those close to the deceased. However, this is very much not the case. Each of these traditions works on two levels: they are built around honoring the…

Industry Analysis Anderson-McQueen Funeral Home was established in 1952 by John S Anderson and William F McQueen in an old home located in Petersburg, Florida. As years went by and the business slowly grew, the two decided to do major renovations to the funeral home to expand the business. In 1970, Mr. Anderson passed away, leaving Mr. McQueen to operate the business on his own. In 1984, him and a group of local funeral directors decided to purchase the historic Sunnyside cemetery. In 1987, Mr.…

place for your loved ones, or for yourself, is never easy, but Washington Memorial Funeral Home makes the funeral planning process as seamless as possible. For four generations they’ve been serving the North Haven, CT, area with steadfast professionalism and an unwavering commitment to customer service. Choosing a casket is just one part of funeral planning, but it’s an important one. Washington Memorial Funeral Home offers their clients a wide array of caskets to choose from, including…

The roman funeral was seen as a type of passage that signified the transition between the death and the life of the person. It was extremely important for them to have proper ceremonies and a burial to avoid spirits and other things from the underworld coming back to affect them. There hasn’t been an exact description of the Roman funeral practices that have been found but there have been numerous accounts of ancient sources that do exist and can provide us accounts of ancient funerals. For the…

Anointing of oil has sometimes been understood as a spiritual aid and was joined with other sacramental acts in a larger process of ritual preparation for death. The same council that reminded bishops to perform the blessings of the oil on Holy Thursday passed the following decree concerning the treatment of the sick: "If anyone is borne down by sickness, he should not lack, through priestly negligence, either confession and the sacerdotal prayer or anointing with the sanctified oil. And…

Alysa could only feel relief. Finally, it didn't matter if her grandparents were inhuman or sick. They were dead, gone and not coming back. They had finally granted her wish and had died. Her relief and joy lasted until her grandparents shared funeral, when she had seen she was the only person there that was relieved they had died. Everyone else, even her parents who had been in the hospital just as much as she had been, were sad the two of them were gone. They all wished that they were still…