My son in law is a mortician, maybe some of you tight asses ought to spend a week with him, doing his job. Most wouldn't last 15 minutes.
He didn't go to school for free and the mortuary college wasn't next door.
None of you realize what is involved when it comes time to retrieve the dearly departed. Most folks expire in the hospital....the corpse is generally full of tubes or extra holes...that you rarely see. All that leaks. Some are covered with bed sores....some still have wounds from failed operations....most have a smell...you never forget. These are the 'good' bodies. The bad ones have their heads gone, are burnt to a crisp, in multiple pieces....or stuck to the couch/chair where they laid for 5 days last August before they were found. Then there are a few with their brains scattered all over from a well placed 12 gauge.....or picked up out of a field after a bushhog has rearranged their former configuration. Then....there are the children...you just never get used to the children. But he and those like him, do this everyday....while we are insulated from these horrors. After they get to the funeral home, the body must be prepared....it isn't pretty or for the faint of heart. Try building noses and ears and lips that have been torn, burned, or shot off...it taskes more than a can of Bondo and sandpaper. It costs close to one million dollars to secure commercial property and then build a new funeral home. The insurance and grounds maintenance is extremely high and on going. You don't see very many Chevy hearses...price a new Cadillac hearse sometime...they are custom built. Add to that a Cadillac Limo and a van or similar to haul the flowers. Private contractors open and close the grave, the vault company handles it's product...those costs are merely passed on at cost. Somebody has to do these things and it is an honorable vocation. They do it 'on call' 24/7 and in a professional manner. Most often, the dearly departed is under ground within 3 days, start to finish....that's a lot to handle and make it as stress free on the survivors as possible.
The vast majority of funeral homes in the US and Canada are now owned by a huge conglomerate out of Canada. My son in law works for a salary and he does it for less than I would....for the work he does. The private homes still in business general reflect several generations of being in the community...great grandpa built the business and suffered the investment costs, the next generation began to enjoy some fruit from their labors and if a third generation continues, they generally do rather well.
I wouldn't have a mortician's job at any price...and neither would most people. You can complain about being ripped off....but you can also take an hour and go visit a funeral home and plan ahead, saving thousands of dollars in the process.
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