#death stuff

God I love how this turned out 😂😂😂

Hisashi closed his eyes, breathing in the scent of his black coffee and letting his tense shoulders relax. The latest client had a some-what overprotective wife, an older lady from America, and that was always a headache. He understood, but the near-accusations she was making were incredibly morbid and rather insulting. He supposed she had a reason, however...

“Tri-State Crematory,” He stated to his companion, who was sitting across from him, “It was a big scandal back in... 2002, I believe. I was three at the time, but my brother was seven and had a love of twisted things like this. The whole story started back in 1996, when Rey Brent Marsh had to move back home to take over the family business - a crematory - when his father became ill.”

He put down his mug, leaning forward a little in his seat. “He works there for six years; however, odd complaints start arising. The man who delivered the gas reports to the sheriff’s office that there were cadavers scattered around the area surrounding Tri-State; which is ignored. The year after, the Environmental Protection Agency receive a report that there are bodies in the woods around the property, which is also ignored,” Hisashi huffed, making his disgust with those authorities perfectly clear.

“Finally, in 2002, a dog walker found a human bone in the woods that were reported to be a dumping ground for cadavers. At last, the authorities investigate Tri-State and Marsh-san, to find what one officer described as something out of a Steven King novel,” He continued, taking a breath. He found the story revolting, especially because of his respect for the dead, death, and the rituals surrounding it, “There were... many corpses scattered around the property, in various states of decomposition, in every building the investigators opened. Some in caskets, some laying discarded around the crematory - abandoned and... leaking, even some in a broken down hearse and in wooden crates... One was even hanging half way out of the cremation machine. There were infant skeletons, also...”

He sat back once more, rubbing a hand over his face. “Three hundred and thirty four bodies... People with families and loved ones, who had lives, just... Discarded. Left to purify like refuse,” He sighed, “It is... horrific. My latest client’s wife, she must have heard about it not too long before leaving America to live in Japan, with her husband. These things leave a scar on the profession... On actual people, who become terrified of what we do when they leave the room...”

Hi ! This is gonna come from my experience in southwestern America as an indigenous Guatemalan! I am just starting my journey as I only decided this career path around two years ago. I have had a hard time in school growing up due to unchecked and untreated illnesses so I did drop out in high-school, I am getting my GED, which is equivalent to a highschool diploma. I pay to take official state tests for Language Arts, Math, Science, History and Civics. I very fortunately live next to one of the only community colleges that teach mortuary sciences in my state, I can share the courses you take there in a reblog (lots of screenshots), you only need your associates in my state, all they really care about is that you have a license to practice. What you learn in the classes are: - Explain the importance of funeral service professionals in developing relationships with the families and communities they serve.

-Identify standards of ethical conduct in funeral service practice.

-Interpret how federal, state, and local laws apply to funeral service in order to ensure compliance.

-Apply principles of public health and safety in the handling and preparation of human remains.

-Demonstrate technical skills in embalming and restorative art that are necessary for the preparation and handling of human remains.

-Demonstrate skills required for conducting arrangement conferences, visitations, services, and ceremonies.

-Describe the requirements and procedures for burial, cremation, and other accepted forms of final disposition of human remains.

-Describe methods to address the grief-related needs of the bereaved.

-Explain management skills associated with operating a funeral establishment. 

-Demonstrate verbal and written communication skills and research skills needed for funeral service practice. 

It vastly varies college to college and even state to state on how you learn things. At the college I will go to they get one body per semester donated to them to show how to handle and cremate a body, then how to handle ashes. This is more important for where I live because our cremation rate is about 80%. I've been told you can just become an embalmer by doing some of the classes, but funeral directors are in higher demand as they can embalm and do everything else. One of the finals in the course is facial reconstruction, where you pick a celebrity, someone you know, or even yourself and reconstruct that person's face as if you were reconstructing and restoring a body's face for their funeral. After you get your funeral license, you will need to get an accredited apprenticeship at a funeral home or with a mortician. A lot of this really depends on where you live. A well known mortician lives in my state and I have personally talked to her, she offers scholarships for women and trans people going into the field, and offers apprenticeships for after college.

That is more of the technical stuff, there is a lot of other stuff that applies a lot to American funeral homes and businesses. At least for here, most funeral homes are a family business and if you are not already in that line of inheritance you're gonna have a harder time finding a job. There is also a lot of discrimination in the field, I have been told since I am bipoc/brown, I will have a harder time finding a job, and I have to add being trans and disabled onto that. I was told by a mortician who is also bipoc and a woman that it took her two years to find a funeral home that was willing to work with her, and it was a funeral home ran by a gay couple. I was told to be prepared for more no's than yes'. The culture around the funeral industry has changed a lot recently, especially around different burial methods, what's better for the earth, and the prices of things such as caskets and burial plots. The known mortician i got to talk to is Monica Torres, she specializes in embalming and facial and cranial reconstruction, she is also known as Cold Hands in the community.

miss girl I am rotting in bed

what part of decomposing brings joy.

where does my death bring rejoicing.