HW#51 - Second Third of COTD Book

Precis

I have learned that the undertakers take the dead very seriously. The deceased are being well respect and treated as if they are alive. Everybody has their own conclusion to their death meaning having funerals or cremation. The people working in the business have these different roles in which they play to deal with the affliciton with death. Also we had build a certain wall that with these social norms of dominant practice religion also plays a role as well. The dead is very much respected and worried.

Quotes

1.)Funeral director fatigue syndrome:
Exhaustion and loss of energy
Irritability and impatience
Cynicism and detachment
Feeling of omnipotence and indispensability

2.)We're trained to take care of the body, not sell the product.

3.)We do this for the families, we treat the dead like we'd treat our own fathers and aunts, each ease handled with respect and dignity

4.)The idea that dead bodies, unless they're embalmed or shrink wrapped, pose a health risk is undertaker propaganda Finally, please write an analytical paragraph that BOTH says something either funny or sad about the text AND demonstrates that you really read it and thought about it.

Analytical

While I was reading one part that I found kind of funny was when the narrator and another worker were in a preparation room basically disinfecting the body while listening to music and the woman was having fun doing her job. I thought it was weird but funny. You don't usually people cutting up bodies, taking out organs and what-not while blasting music and lip-syncing the lyrics. It's unheard of to me. The narrator was very new to this environment which I also that was humorous because he didn't know how to react to the situation. There was one part where Neil and his wife were actually dancing during a funeral session that was funny. Since they experience death everyday they just detach themselves and do what they can do to stay happy. It's too natural for them I think.