A visit to the funeral home

I have worked for our local funeral home.  Sometimes as the officiant for a funeral.  Sometimes as an assistant for the funeral directors.

Yesterday I popped into the funeral home.  I had a class of college students who were there to see what happens at a funeral home (that’s a whole fun story in itself!).

The staff started talking with me. 

The funeral home budgets their fiscal year for around 120 – 130 funerals (no guarantees!).  There are a number of adjectives that go along with the word funeral, like “profitable”, “indigent”, etc.  Putting all those varied types of funerals together you would have an average of around 10 or a few more funeral arrangements per month.

As of January 29th, they had completed arrangements for 24 funerals, less than three were COVID related. Prior to that in 2020 there had been no COVID related deaths.

Any thoughts?