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[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 60 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The body is often "prepared" for the funeral before it is cremated, so tape a couple hundred dollars to your chest with a note asking the preparer to leave your guts intact. Usually an underpaid apprentice does this, so there's a chance they'll go for it.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Someone apprentices at crematorium?

[–] Auduras@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

An old coworker of mine at some part-time gig went to school and studied "Mortuary Science". Absolutely fascinated me. He had a second job at a crematorium where he was an apprentice.

After him telling me that, I realized that I never thought about how someone got into that field. Never really considered someone going to school to do this as a career (which now I realize is obvious, but I never connected the dots).

Always assumed people working at a crematorium or a cemetery was a cliche old decrepit guy.