The Dismal Trade
By underbunny
1 April 2007
My trade is the dismal one. It devotes itself to the living by caring for their late loved ones, from rising in the middle of the night to collect someone that has passed away at home to lowering the casket into the ground at a graveside service in the middle of the day. Although my formal title is Funeral Director and Embalmer, I prefer the old-fashioned Undertaker, for this profession is nothing short of a tremendous undertaking.
These are photographs from my job. I feel they show both the warm and cold facets of my work - funeral directing for the living, the embalming of the deceased. I began taking these photographs to share with dear friends some of the strange beauty I would glimpse everyday in the most unexpected places. Eventually these scenes, along with my explanations of them, became helpful to many in demystifying what goes on behind the locked doors of the preparation room of a funeral home.
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