Fans of Death & Laid-Back Facials | 4M #219

Welcome to the two-hundred-and-nineteenth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #219, 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!

Things that make you go “Hmmm”

A former worker at a Nashville funeral home has been accused of stealing an embalming machine and five headrests worth $3,600 from his former employer. Your guess is as good as ours as to his motivation for taking these particular items. Maybe he’s going freelance? Needed some last-minute stocking stuffers? Selling these on eBay?

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Transferable skills

Tennessee funeral director Aaron Rowbury has gone viral for showing that his “mortician skills” aren’t valuable only in an embalming room. Rowbury recently posted several super-cute TikTok videos of himself applying makeup to his daughter for a dance recital — in the best way he knows how. “Most girls have a dance mom … I’ve got a mortician dad with a steady hand,” he wrote across the video. The caption reads “When your mortician dad swaps formaldehyde for foundation.”

Mystery solved?

Nevada authorities announced last week that they had identified three of the 315 sets of cremains that were recovered from a desert outside of Las Vegas this summer. The reports don’t detail exactly how those cremains were identified, but they do say that those are likely the only identifiable sets. It’s also been suggested that the cremains came from a recently-closed funeral home and were “years unclaimed,” although that business “denies any involvement.”