Death Care Quotes

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

Coffin sales people would like to have a plague every year.

I am a spiritual person. I'm a Catholic. I treat my patients, the dead patients, as live patients. I believe there is life after death. And I talk to my patients. I talk to them, not loudly but quietly in my heart when I look at them. Before I do an autopsy, I must have a visual contact with the face.

If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, you're going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.

Death deserves dignity.

It was plain to see the Hollywood undertakers take care of everything. If you die you don't have to lift a finger.

To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.

I take classes to be a mortician.

I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor.

Being a good embalmer is a thankless job.

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?

Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.

Don't think I'd really want to be a mortician. Wouldn't be getting much back.

CINCINNATI MORGUE, AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY SERVICE SINCE 1966.

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.