Mail Mistakes & Soggy 9-Irons| 4M #21

Welcome to the twenty-first edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations in the week ahead. Bon appetit!

If you need a daily dose of #DeathTok…

Not long ago we told you that #DeathTok — deathcare-related videos on TikTok — were becoming a thing. This past week not one, not two, but (at least) three #DeathTok personalities were highlighted in news reports for their unique content. If you’re looking for a little end-of-day entertainment or enlightenment (or maybe some inspiration for your own channel?), check out these profiles:

• @lovee.miss.lauren, whose “list of things she would never do based on her experience as a mortician” video has been viewed more than 5 million times. Her list, by the way, includes things like going near farm equipment and playing golf in the rain.
• @horonim.ru, a Russian mortuary service whose video of near-naked models writhing around on the caskets they’re trying to promote has been branded “tasteless and offensive.”
• @lamontatlarge, who filmed the interior of an abandoned mausoleum that has been neglected for more than 40 years. His haunting images are equally beautiful and heartbreaking, and will hopefully lead someone to rescue the facility, which holds the remains of more than 400 souls.

Not your average college care package

College students don’t require a lot of possessions. Most can get by with the necessities — beer, ramen, iPhone accessories, etc. Recently, though, a New York college student opened a box she thought contained a much-anticipated Apple phone charger, only to find instead a damaged container of human cremains. Thanks to a USPS mix-up, the tracking number placed on the cremains by a New York funeral home meant for a grieving family had been duplicated on the student’s package. The student was able to meet the family and deliver the remains, and the post office apologized for the error and promised an investigation. As of this writing, though, the student had still not received her phone charger.

Carpe Noctem?

YODO: You Only Die Once. Although we wish we could take credit for it, this is the phrase Ireland’s Independent.ie used recently to sum up “the attitude of millennials who are increasingly facing their mortality head-on by planning their own end-of-life celebrations with non-traditional rituals.” It’s not quite as inspiring as YOLO, but it could work as a preneed marketing slogan!

As seen on TV

Over the last several months I’ve devoured my fair share of streaming series, including Showtime’s Dexter: New Blood and Yellowjackets, and the first part of the final season of Ozark on Netflix. In all three series, the lead characters use cremation to conveniently cover up their crimes. In this reprisal of the old Dexter series, Dexter (and his dark passenger) doesn’t have access to a body of water in which to deposit bodies, so he incinerates his prey on his own property (not realizing his victim contains traceable medical screws).

On Yellowjackets, one of the nuttier plane crash survivors somehow sneaks the hands and head of a murder victim into the cremation container of her deceased nursing home patient. Perhaps the most clever cremation scheme is played out on Ozark, though, where the ever-enterprising Byrdes purchase a funeral home with a retort they use to cremate anyone whose remains might expose their complicated chicanery. Looks like cremation is the new disposition of choice for TV killers!

FAKE NEWS!!!!!

Fake news, misinformation, opposing viewpoints, call it whatever you want- it’s everywhere! In fact, we’ve even heard people say, “live streaming funeral services is so difficult!”

Well well well, Get some mustard and a little bit of bread, cause that’s bologna!

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