New York State Funeral Directors Association
Growing up I didn’t plan to become a funeral director.
Though the community may have assumed I would go into the business and my dad may have hoped I would, he never pushed me to be a funeral director.
Having that said, he did always have me working around and in the funeral home as needed.
There are many cemeteries and memorials for those lost to battle on land.
But there are only few dedicated to the thousands who died in the seas. Some are are still in shipwrecks that have been discovered and looted - others are still missing.
A project underway in 2018 marks the first plan for an underwater memorial dedicated to U.S. submarine crew members who were lost at sea.
Keep your hands off.
Don’t touch. It’s not for you, not safe, not to be handled. Leave it alone, it’s dirty and unclean, hands off.
In most Western cultures, we think that about the deceased human body - but why?
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