When he says that there's no light at the end of the tunnel, which is a reference to many near-death experiences, and that "there's nothing," I see that as his strong opinion that there is no afterlife. We are a country of many different beliefs in this area, and I'm glad that Lou had made a good career in helping those who face this time of life.
You get so used to this in our business! To me? It’s proof that god has our soul in his hand! When the body can no longer be a good shelter for our soul, the soul departs! The dead and totally useless biological mass of bone and flesh begins to breakdown and rot the very second the heart stops beating! The first body I ever had to deal with was a lady of great age, She died in her home, We went to take her out of bed and back to the funeral home to get her embalmed . My God I was scared! Totally untrained I did as told. “Take her shoulders , lift her and slide her onto the cot, I’ll take her legs and lower back” I lifted her shoulders……..SHE MADE A GASP! Like aaaaah…. W T F ? She ain’t dead or something! “Relax! You fool! That’s the air left in her lungs being pushed out when you lifted her up! We put her on a cot, the cot was designed to fold into A chair for stairs . This was 1967 in a southern mansion in Charleston SC. We got her covered with a black cover and put plastic zip tie on her hands to prevent her arms from getting in the way. We put the cot straight again and onto an ambulance bed and into a Cadillac Hearse. Back at J.M. Connelly Co. (Est 1912) went to the 3rd floor and left her on the table. “ Son, you see when God takes our soul back into his realm. This is all that’s left! just an empty vessel container that will very quickly turn into dust.
My brother in law purchased a successful Funeral Home that he worked at in Phoenix Arizona. The old man that owned it treated Robert like his own son . First thing he did was call Texas and get Three brand new Cadillac coaches on the way. The two they had looked like shit! And we’re run raggedy! And then he terminates two embalmers in the back. They were lazy and didn’t care anymore. He already had two highly respected embalmers from a different company ready to take over. They did about 500 funerals (Church Funerals) and he said about 1000 cremations. The cremation guy arrived each morning with the prior day’s cremated remains, and he loaded up all outgoing bodies to be burned. They had one old man that pimped fancy marble urns ⚱️ to sell the families when they came in to sign and pre pay for the $850 cremations (non taxable) he’d pour the funky smelling ashes (Sand!) into the urns before delivering them to the family. No urn? Do deliveries! 🤑 There were four visitation rooms, plus a large former dining room that the old owner had rented it out to Love Florist. A full service florist. He cancelled that lease ! Anyway he asked me if I wanted a job! Embalming room was 100 % off limits now! He installed locks that only fingerprint readers would open. That was OK with me if he needed me to help back there I would just follow him. Sometimes they would have be a big wide-body Lard monster that took all hands to move. He installed an overhead tracking device to lift the dead people into caskets and on tables. Saving “ fraudulent Workman’s comp claims” they got a HUGE walk-in refrigerator that could hold 30 bodies on built in racks. The old one they took the wall out to forklift it out and up on a flatbed. I made a joke to the driver. Are you going to sell that to a restaurant? I mean there’s been a lot of shit going around in that fan! And he told me he doesn’t know he just drives a truck that pissed me off! So I asked Robert what is he gonna do to ensure that they don’t sell this to some restaurant? And the guy said this is not rated for food storage that is strictly for hospital use and if you want to follow us it’s going to a funeral home in superior, or if you want to call them, call them and ask them! I sold it to them before I traded it.” I will just tell you I didn’t last more than two months! Too much work in a busy funeral home is a ball buster! Yeah, it’s fun to drive these big White Cadillacs but that’s only maybe 5% of the job you have to take caskets to churches, and sit through all kinds of bullshit, Race the clock to keep a tight schedule! If you have a murder , all HELL breaks loose! Mexicans? Thousands of drunk Mexicans show up! Leaving glass beer bottles in the parking lot! Mexican kids pissing on the stall walls and tagging things! Indians? Always entire jalopy full of kids and drunk adults! Never any survivors! We had 6 Gila River Indians cross the center lane on I-10 and I’m told the car was a tomato can! They had to bring the car with the bodies inside on a flatbed truck to the Phoenix fire Department training Ground, so the medical examiner and all the other officials could start pulling on that car to get it apart and extricating all these people! We HAD the bureau of Indian affairs contract so we had the entire family! I stayed the HELL away from the back room! All in body bags inside caskets! Robert got an offer to sell out to a big firm and do what he always wanted to do. Buy a horse property in the cooler part of the state (flagstaff area) and hand build a house 🏠) He did and never regretted it! The company that bought it back then is call S.N.L. (security national life insurance company.) a Utah based company. Funeral homes are HARD PHYSICAL WORK! Mentally draining and just shitty!
I admire his candor. And yes, there is a lot of waiting.
"Not a flicker, not a flame. There's nothing." So sad for Lou that he's let death convince him that life has no ultimate end.
I think he is saying it has an end. You're saying it doesn't.
When he says that there's no light at the end of the tunnel, which is a reference to many near-death experiences, and that "there's nothing," I see that as his strong opinion that there is no afterlife. We are a country of many different beliefs in this area, and I'm glad that Lou had made a good career in helping those who face this time of life.
Yet he had a cross hanging on the wall on a chain. Very confusing.
You get so used to this in our business! To me? It’s proof that god has our soul in his hand! When the body can no longer be a good shelter for our soul, the soul departs! The dead and totally useless biological mass of bone and flesh begins to breakdown and rot the very second the heart stops beating! The first body I ever had to deal with was a lady of great age, She died in her home, We went to take her out of bed and back to the funeral home to get her embalmed . My God I was scared! Totally untrained I did as told. “Take her shoulders , lift her and slide her onto the cot, I’ll take her legs and lower back” I lifted her shoulders……..SHE MADE A GASP! Like aaaaah…. W T F ? She ain’t dead or something! “Relax! You fool! That’s the air left in her lungs being pushed out when you lifted her up!
We put her on a cot, the cot was designed to fold into A chair for stairs . This was 1967 in a southern mansion in Charleston SC. We got her covered with a black cover and put plastic zip tie on her hands to prevent her arms from getting in the way. We put the cot straight again and onto an ambulance bed and into a Cadillac Hearse. Back at J.M. Connelly Co. (Est 1912) went to the 3rd floor and left her on the table. “ Son, you see when God takes our soul back into his realm. This is all that’s left! just an empty vessel container that will very quickly turn into dust.
It takes special people to do this kind of work. God Bless
Oh my sad, sad, man, little do you know
I have traveled to the other side and returned, there is so much more after death. Pray and know. ❤ ❤ ❤
Brilliant job. Beautiful and technically seamless.
This guy has so much respect for the deased, I hope someday I get someone like him who cares so much about the families! From ohio
Nicely shot. Nicely put together. It leaves you wanting more but I guess that was one of the intentions.
Really good. Thank you.
Beautifully done.
I really enjoyed this
Awe man make more
Even funeral directors talk smack about us. We can't win!
Gingy Gingy Gingy.
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Great job u ... old man
That guy had the Personality of a tick
Love you Lou!
No light at the end of the tunnel?? What are you saying?? There is no eternal life after death?? Explain.
Correct. The “light switch” of death. Just the same as before you were born. You don’t remember anything, not even an awareness of existence.
Good Man think you.
My brother in law purchased a successful Funeral Home that he worked at in Phoenix Arizona. The old man that owned it treated Robert like his own son . First thing he did was call Texas and get Three brand new Cadillac coaches on the way. The two they had looked like shit! And we’re run raggedy! And then he terminates two embalmers in the back. They were lazy and didn’t care anymore. He already had two highly respected embalmers from a different company ready to take over. They did about 500 funerals (Church Funerals) and he said about 1000 cremations. The cremation guy arrived each morning with the prior day’s cremated remains, and he loaded up all outgoing bodies to be burned. They had one old man that pimped fancy marble urns ⚱️ to sell the families when they came in to sign and pre pay for the $850 cremations (non taxable) he’d pour the funky smelling ashes (Sand!) into the urns before delivering them to the family. No urn? Do deliveries! 🤑 There were four visitation rooms, plus a large former dining room that the old owner had rented it out to Love Florist. A full service florist. He cancelled that lease ! Anyway he asked me if I wanted a job! Embalming room was 100 % off limits now! He installed locks that only fingerprint readers would open. That was OK with me if he needed me to help back there I would just follow him. Sometimes they would have be a big wide-body
Lard monster that took all hands to move. He installed an overhead tracking device to lift the dead people into caskets and on tables. Saving “ fraudulent Workman’s comp claims” they got a HUGE walk-in refrigerator that could hold 30 bodies on built in racks. The old one they took the wall out to forklift it out and up on a flatbed. I made a joke to the driver. Are you going to sell that to a restaurant? I mean there’s been a lot of shit going around in that fan! And he told me he doesn’t know he just drives a truck that pissed me off! So I asked Robert what is he gonna do to ensure that they don’t sell this to some restaurant? And the guy said this is not rated for food storage that is strictly for hospital use and if you want to follow us it’s going to a funeral home in superior, or if you want to call them, call them and ask them! I sold it to them before I traded it.”
I will just tell you I didn’t last more than two months! Too much work in a busy funeral home is a ball buster! Yeah, it’s fun to drive these big White Cadillacs but that’s only maybe 5% of the job you have to take caskets to churches, and sit through all kinds of bullshit, Race the clock to keep a tight schedule! If you have a murder , all HELL breaks loose! Mexicans? Thousands of drunk Mexicans show up! Leaving glass beer bottles in the parking lot! Mexican kids pissing on the stall walls and tagging things! Indians? Always entire jalopy full of kids and drunk adults! Never any survivors! We had 6 Gila River Indians cross the center lane on I-10 and I’m told the car was a tomato can! They had to bring the car with the bodies inside on a flatbed truck to the Phoenix fire Department training Ground, so the medical examiner and all the other officials could start pulling on that car to get it apart and extricating all these people! We HAD the bureau of Indian affairs contract so we had the entire family! I stayed the HELL away from the back room! All in body bags inside caskets!
Robert got an offer to sell out to a big firm and do what he always wanted to do. Buy a horse property in the cooler part of the state (flagstaff area) and hand build a house 🏠) He did and never regretted it! The company that bought it back then is call S.N.L. (security national life insurance company.) a Utah based company. Funeral homes are HARD PHYSICAL WORK! Mentally draining and just shitty!