#funeral director

[yourdailyqueer]

Aimee Stephens (deceased)

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: 7 December 1960

RIP: 12 May 2020

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Funeral director, activist

Note: She worked as a funeral director in Detroit and was fired for being transgender. Based on her court case, in a historic 2020 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects gay, lesbian, and transgender employees from discrimination based on sex.

[graveboydiaries]

Working in a funeral home is either getting off four hours early or never going home

[lostghoulie]

my pretty little instruments ♡

[chichirid]

˗ˋˏ hu tao id pack ˎˊ˗

(names, pronouns, titles)

names: agni, april, avril, blaise, blaze, bridget, charlie, chloe, daemon, ember, enzo, evelyn, felicity, hana, hayden, hazel, hestia, huoqiáng, huīyàn, jasper, julia, lachlan, lola, madeline, mateo, meijuan, mengtao, nico, peiling, quinn, ruby, saurona, shen, stefanie, thalia, veronika, vestia, vivika, wendy, xuàn liè, yajin

pronouns: tomb/tombstones, grave/graveyard, butterfly/butterflies, divi/divine, peach/peaches, spi/spirits, coffin/coffins, ritual/rituals, eternal/eternals, blaze/blazes, flame/flames

titles: *prn* who is acquainted with spirits, *prn* who cleanses spirits with flames, *prn* with a blazing spear, *prn* with a fiery glow, *prn* whose scorched flames reach heaven, *prn* who is familiar with familiars, the 77th butterfly, the funeral parlour’s poet, the eccentric mortician, the divine spirit soother, the guide to the afterlife, the ignited butterfly, the fiery moment of bloom, the undertaker hiding in the garden of eternal rest admist spider lilies, the butterfly’s messenger

art by cha_hanare on twitter (x) - https://twitter.com/cha_hanare/status/1770754834330783828

[mortmicpodcast]

Goals AF

[blyssade]

[churchburn]

[dollhousemausoleum]

Ever since I was a child, and up to now, I’ve had an intense love of and empathy for stuffed animals. As an awkward and shy only child, they were my very best friends, and I fully ascribed personalities, feelings, and souls to them, which I still kinda do today (how tf did my autism *not* get discovered sooner?? Did it really have to take 30 years?), I also still sleep with a good number of them. My absolute favorite is Batty, a large Beanie Baby bat I got at a hospital giftshop in 2000.

I’m a mortician by trade, and aside from embalming, I also dress and put people in their caskets. Not much bothers me about my work, I love it very much. I can deal with just about any disgusting form the aftermath of death takes, but my heart. Fucking. S h a t t e r s. When a stuffed animal is being buried with the deceased. I know many people would call that ridiculous, but I just can’t stop thinking of how lonely they’ll be, in a cramped casket with their only companion dead and rotting, forever. However, I also like to think the “spirit” of the stuffie moves on to a new vessel to be loved again or, even better, goes with their human to the afterlife to soothe these thoughts.

This older lady I’m taking care of today is being buried with a stuffed calico cat, it’s one of those heating pad beanie plushies you can microwave. I placed the cat in her folded hands, facing her.

(I’m a cat mom and this one in particular destroyed me and had me wanting to race home to cuddle my cats 🥺)

My fucking heart. 💔

[morbid-critter]

Alright so I’ve wanted to say this for awhile and it is actually my primary reason for creating this account lol. Just to clarify first though, I love horror, and more importantly I love unrealistic horror so please take everything I say with a grain of salt and do not think I’m trying to tell anyone how to write as that is not the case, I simply am really interested in this kinda thing and believe in the sharing of knowledge.

Anyways,

Embalmed bodies don’t really rot.

Embalming is the preservation of the body by replacing the blood with embalming solution and some formaldehyde, it makes the body a unfavourable food or nutrient source for any kind of bug or microorganisms which would cause decomposition.

If someone in your story is dead and you want them to be a rotting corpse then most realistically they’d have had a direct burial since embalmed body’s arnt supposed to decompose and typically if there was an open casket an embalming would have had to have taken place.

Again this does not mean you have to change your story or how you write in anyway at all, just wanted to share the reality for anyone interested.

-<3

[brotherfrog]

even though I am leaving the industry I got a lot to say about public perception of morticians/undertakers. usually the response I get when I tell ppl what I do is “that’s weird” and if there’s a piece of media (usually horror) set in a mortuary/funeral home the discussion around it is always ewwww gross dead bodies these ppl are WEIRD for working here. and it’s like man. the ppl working in this industry are SO passionate about ensuring the dignity and care of dead bodies - the most vulnerable people ever bc they literally cannot do anything if any kind of abuse happens. and yes I say people bc to the ppl working in these environments, they ARE people, not just bodies or objects. they’re loved ones, and we consider it an immense privilege to be trusted by families to look after their loved one. it’s a hard job, physically and emotionally, and sometimes thankless. but when you’re actually faced with grief, you’ll be so grateful for a mortician/undertaker that cares and is passionate about their craft, I promise you

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Nanny McPhee (2005, Kirk Jones)

24/09/2024

[torbli]

Mr Dude becomes a Funeral Director

[calliope-prints]

☆ putting the 'fun' in 'funeral' ☆

show a little love to the death professional in your life!

[mortuary-d4rling]

Starting my second semester of mortuary science courses on the 14th of January

🧪⚰️beyond excited on finally making my dream of becoming a mortician come true.

[dropkickslurpee]

as a mortician I dream of the day when my clients reanimate and can climb into caskets all on their own. she looks like she's up to no good though.

[mortuarymorticia]

hi ! i love ur blog and hope ur doing well <3 i was wondering if you knew of any study resources out there for funeral direction/mortuary science ? ive cleared my basics so far but i hate going into classes completely unprepared, and im an aspiring mortician as well :)

hello, cutie crow! thank you so much for the kind compliments! i do have quite a few resources, but i’d recommend starting with the following two:

nfda.org is the national funeral directors association & adec.org is the association for death education & counseling! both offer seminars (sometimes free & often online!) as well as a valuable trove of research & resources including career & education specific ones!

i hope that helps & happy holidays!