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From spammerdanderson5640/Dave (0) 
on December 19, 2011 11:47:19 PM CST
merne funeral homes
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From mikewebb/Mike (13,813) 
on December 20, 2011 3:37:40 AM CST
Nope just the customers.
I'm sorry I couldn't resist. The old ones are the best.
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From ofofhy/Evan (10,587)
on December 20, 2011 6:32:34 AM CST
Seriously, though. This would be a great business to be in. People always die. Granted, it's not recession proof as people will buy less in terms of funeral packages, but to know you have an ever expanding customer base would be great. A lot of people would kill for that type of stability ;) I used to work with a large, gas-fired tunnel furnace in a previous job. We used it to pre-heat molds in a foundry. One of the furnace service techs said most of his work was with crematoriums (crematoria?). As we run out of land for cemeteries, and casket/funerals are ever more expensive, cremation is going to grow. That's where I would put my money today... if I had any.
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From mikewebb/Mike (13,813)
on December 20, 2011 6:54:42 AM CST
Not into sites where the body is composted and used to grow trees then? I reckon there's big bucks there with good marketing.
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From ofofhy/Evan (10,587)
on December 20, 2011 7:09:32 AM CST
Actually I remember last year at some point seeing a series of photos depicting a sky burial, which I thought was a pretty neat concept. The body is placed on a mountain (the on I saw was in Tibet) with strategic cuts made. The body is then consumed by vultures and other scavengers/birds of prey. The bones are then taken back to the village. If you Google: sky burial photos, the images will come up. Some might find them disturbing.
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From swanda/John (1,023)
on December 20, 2011 10:07:15 AM CST
That reminds me of my first photo job at Baylor University, working in the photo center which supplied photos to all the campus publications. There was a tragic incident where a dead baby was found in a dumpster at one of the womens' dorms. A funeral was scheduled, and our supervisor wanted photos of it. I and a woman photographer were sent, and so as not to be invasive, we sat in my car some distance away and shot with telephotos. All of a sudden we were surrounded by police who had the funeral staked out with hopes of seeing the child's parent(s), and we looked like possible suspects.
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From darren/Darren (6,841)
on December 20, 2011 8:23:53 AM CST
The jokes are funny and totally called for. On a more serious note though, could you imagine trusting someone who would be so crass with one of the more serious and sombre events you will have to go through?
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From robertwallis/Robert (12,866)
on December 20, 2011 11:12:50 AM CST
Radio spot for Merne Funeral home
Cue in smarmy music
"Hi, folks, I'm Dave from Merne where you bring folks with money to burn. Our motto is sell high and bury low. Our owners have decided the best way to increase our already high margins is to go guerilla advertising and cop free advertising by spamming on totally incongruous locations like Photosig. We figured since darkroom work was a dying art, it was a natural tie in. Makes sense, doesn't it?
Yes, you too can avail yourself of our services when you do dumbass things like take photos of oncoming trains from the middle of the railroad tracks, or lean outward on the back of a motorcycle to take a shot. The best one yet is to take photos of lightning when the thunderclaps are less than a second away from the flash and you have your hands on a metal tripod waiting for that glorious shot. We love customers like that one in particular because there's so little work to do. The trade name for those clients is "crispy critter", and the profit margin on those is the best of all. Just remember, we're not dying to see you but you're dying to see us!" (rimshot on drums) Fade out smarmy music
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From robertwallis/Robert (12,866)
on December 20, 2011 12:53:45 PM CST
That would be very close to it, if not on it. It would also be called "tongue in cheek" humor which I couldn't even come close to translating that colloquialism into German.
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