The Death of a Funeral Director
News travels fast in a small town.It went out over the police scanner that an
ambulance had been sent to the local funeral home.That’s not normally a place that EMT’s work
to save a life, but that day they were.The funeral director had suffered a heart attack in his chair on a
Sunday afternoon, and his life was in danger.He is a church member as well as a good friend, and I got the call while
I was in my office.I rushed down to the
hospital to be there and get an update, but upon sight of the family it was
evident I didn’t need an update.Roger
didn’t make it.
I hugged his wife and grieved with his employees, who were there to collect his body.I had the privilege to help them load the funeral director into a car with name on the side.The gravity of the moment was overwhelming.Roger had grown up the son of a funeral director and had spent almost all of his life around death.He himself had stood in countless hospitals and homes around grieving families, not just to provide a service but t…
I hugged his wife and grieved with his employees, who were there to collect his body.I had the privilege to help them load the funeral director into a car with name on the side.The gravity of the moment was overwhelming.Roger had grown up the son of a funeral director and had spent almost all of his life around death.He himself had stood in countless hospitals and homes around grieving families, not just to provide a service but t…
