Monthly archives: January, 2016

Affording a Funeral for an Infant

January 27, 2016
Consumer ProtectionGriefWorkdays
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For the purposes of this post, “baby” or “infant” shall refer to a child aged one year or under, and a fetus at any stage of development. I am seeing a lot of GoFundMe pages set up for families seeking financial help after they lose a baby. Nothing is wrong with this, as there may…

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Losing a Daughter, Gaining a Son…Not in the Way You Think

January 17, 2016
GriefPersonal Stories
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I am a funeral director and embalmer with eleven years in the business, but many don’t know I am also the mother of a transgendered child. I have always been supportive of the LGBT community and I knew the right thing to do was accept my child’s new gender identity. She [I still use the…

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On Makeup

January 8, 2016
Embalming
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This could also be considered the last in my Facial Laceration Repair posts…for this case, anyway. I came back one more day before the funeral and re-sutured, re-waxed and re-cosmetized everything again, and she ended up looking…good. Good as in, like someone who had not been in a car accident. On the day of the…

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