To want to be a mortician

It's an important service; there's nothing wrong with wanting to go into mortuary science. However, most morticians don't go into the business because they're death-obsessed.

Have you ever taken an anatomy course -- a real one, a college course, not just cutting up a frog in your junior high biology class? You may be more fond of the idea of death and bodies than with the smelly, messy, wet actuality of them.

Another question: have you ever had anyone truly close to you die? Watching someone die of a wasting disease is not pretty. Neither is coping with funeral arrangements and handling other people's raw, ugly grief sensitively. Preparing bodies is only a tiny part of what you do. You'll be working with living people at their most vulnerable; that drives more people out of the business than dealing with bodies.

Not saying you shouldn't go for it, but don't invest a whole lot in it if you aren't prepared for everything the job entails, not just a fantasy image of what it might be like.

Well one things for sure people are always going to die so it is highly unlikely that you will ever be out of work.

I think you should go for it if it your dream job. xxx

yeah they all say that.

I would love to be that too. There is something fascinating about death and it's somehow more important and more meaningful having a job like that than doing a job like selling or whatever else. There's nothing more serious than death and you're right there at the heart of it.

Someone's gotta do it

There's nothing wrong with doing what you want to do or being yourself. :)

i wouldn't want to be

I want to be a grave keeper so i suppose you're normal. Death, in it's own way is quite beautiful and interesting. It's just the thought of seeing a dead thing and knowing that it used to be animate. It used to think and feel and it makes me wonder about the things it did when it was alive, and where it's soul is now if there is a place for souls to go.