Death
I passed a funeral home yesterday with a banner out front. It read “Newly Remodeled - Stop In for a Visit.” As it happens this establishment was recently purchased by the local pioneer in less expensive and pre-planned funerals. It happens to be a woman who started these innovations when she was single and in her twenties. She came from a family in the funeral business, but her innovations caught the local morticians flatfooted. She’s done a nice job with her business. Today, she’s married (to another mortician) and they have two children at last count.
You could work up an interesting television for FX on that premise. How about the dating dilemma for a young, good looking woman who is a mortician. The imagination runs on.
Her story is interesting, but it isn’t my point. I can’t think of many people, though I can think of one or two, who on their death bed would say “I didn’t spend enough time at the office.” Families count; a social life counts; recreation counts; getting you mind away from work counts; human relationships count. Even if you want to work past you retirement age you need to adjust it for your family obligations. Which with aging parents and returning children family duties may be more numerious than you think, but worth it in the end.
Just so you know, the woman mortician is startlingly good looking. The mind reels at the possibilities for a cheesy television series next summer. If someone does it, I want to be on the writing staff.
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