This is for those of you who would like to live in an old funeral home. This 1904 home in South Bend, IN is affordable and it's still intact! 6bds, 4ba, (big enough for the whole squad), and only $267K.
Center entrance hall.
You've got a nice living room with a fireplace.
I don't know, they may throw in the setup back there, or least the casket.
Big rooms.
Powder room.
Large office.
This is kind of cute- a small sun porch.
A large kitchen is off the sun porch.
The living room is large.
The primary bedroom. This whole place depresses me and needs a major decor update.
This must be another bedroom.
Down in the basement is the lounge.
And, another powder room.
Delightful.
And, I would call this the "work" room.
The laundry room.
The lift is in here and I would imagine that will stay.
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Here’s the series of articles that I believe originally uncovered this case, and has tons of crazy info in it: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/usa-bodies/
In which the journalists buy human heads for $200 each. And no, they didn’t have to pose as medical professionals.
Edit: @janeandthehivequeen says the podcast Criminal also has a good episode on this case. In case you just want to learn about the Sunset Mesa funeral home and not read a big long (but excellent) series about the body trade.
Lol I sort of forgot this blog existed. Anyway. My latest for Lefto! I really dug the latest album by Funeral Homes.
I couldn't quite figure out how to put this in the review - and it always feels a little unnecessary/prurient to talk about what an artist might be saying about their personal life in their work - but the press release noted that the record was partially about Sofia's journey with gender identity. I think it's pretty evident in the music.
When I started transitioning, I realized how fake and shallow my experience of the world had seemed; since then, I have felt my life become richer and deeper, which is both beautiful and really scary. I think Blue Heaven reflects that dichotomy in a graceful, thoughtful way. One of her influences for this record was Title Fight's glorious Hyperview, which is pretty evident in its sound; but Hyperview is intense and dark, where Blue Heaven is intense and bright. I described it to my partner as not just awestruck, but awful - as in, full of awe, positive and negative connotations included.
This week, Jem and Red give some personal background about themselves. How did they get into the crazy world of deathcare and what is it, exactly, that they do?
God this this podcast is SO GOOD!
These co-hosts are so cool. These young death care people are just such a fresh and fun pair of people.
They make death so much less morbid and less scary. And such a good fun light podcast. And so neat and deep.
I don't usually gush hard on podcasts, but this one is so fucking fun!
We never know the impact we are having on those around us. We don't need to know, we just need to live!
Sitting in a funeral home with people you don’t know is not one of my favorite pastimes, but when you are married to a pastor it happens. It’s always a time of reflection, especially when there isn’t much of an emotional connection. The conversations swirl around you about the pictures flashing on a screen.
“ Is that Uncle _____? He was handsome!”
“There’s Aunt_____. That was at _______’s…
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"Okay." Danny slowly laid the already cold body back onto the table, ready to slide back it into the refuge of cold storage. "Okay. Dead guy. Stay there."
The body didn't move.
"Fantastic. Now. Hang out while I pour the embalming fluid into the pump, alright? It should only be a minute."
And it usually did; working in a funeral home wasn't extremely glamorous, but it paid the bills, and Danny had already been used to the rhyme and rhythm of negotiating death with the public by the time he sent in his mortuary school application. It had been a transition that made sense. And in the end, the degree had only cost him a few extra years post-graduation and a little dig into student loans, and now Danny had a stable 12-8 job and health insurance valid in the state of new jersey.
Today, though, the pump had that decided enough was enough. With a bang and a boom, the pump spat out a cloud of smoke and clunked uncomfortably.
The dead body sat up.
Danny scrambled over to push it back down. "No. We talked about this. Dead people don't move. If you want to stay here and have me put you back together all the time, you have to stay put. Got it?"
Whatever the weird gold-eye corpses were on in Gotham, they at least listened to him on occasion. They weren't ghosts, per se— they never pinged on any of the ghost detection devices Mom and Dad had packed in his going-away-to-college bag— but they were, despite being occasionally animate, perfectly deceased.
Weird. Danny had never gotten used to it. Still, they came in droves, too eager to sit on the top of the basement stairwell and lurk in the corners and stare endlessly at them with their weird, avian eyes, and sometimes they heralded the arrival similarly weird-ass bodies that had lost their heads or their arms or their limbs through the more conventional channels.
"I'm losing too much thread to all y'all coming in all the time," Danny complained to the dead body, who, at the moment, was the only person present to blame. "Stop getting your limbs cut off. This stuff is expensive, you know. It's a specialty order."
The body didn't even have the courtesy to blink. Rude.
"At least let them bury you this time. Every time one of you darts off when my back's turned, my boss thinks I'm stealing corpses. My coworkers think I'm building my own Frankenstein or something."
The corpse neither verbalized nor blinked, but Danny hadn't expected it to; with a sigh, he rolled the corpse back into cold storage, locked its little door (not that locking it in had ever stopped it) and called it quits for the night.
It's not like anyone was paying him for the extra hours anyway.