Compassion Fatigue and Death Care Writers: Is This a Thing?
Funeral directors, embalmers and other professionals whose jobs involve the processing of human remains confront a unique form of stress, one intrinsic to the nature of the work....
Compassion Fatigue
Brian Waters Leads August Funeral Professionals Peer Support Meeting
WHEELING, IL— Funeral service professionals are helpers—empathetic, and dedicated. Which means they’re also tired and facing compassion fatigue and burnout. On August 15, Brian Waters, co-host of Undertaking:...
Burnout or Compassion Fatigue: What’s the Difference?
Professional burnout has become absolutely rampant. Most of us wear multiple hats in daily life during the best of times, and world events of the past several years...
COVID Compassion Fatigue And You: 3 Self-Care Tips
Thanks to contributing author Emily Gehman for this great article! Someday, COVID-19 will live only in the history books. For now, it’s an evolving situation, fraught with an...
Feeling Compassion Fatigue? Here are Five Ways to Decompress over Thanksgiving.
Search any list of “most stressful jobs” and you’ll find the usual: firefighters, pilots, police officers, CEOs, and soldiers. You know as well as anyone that “funeral director”...