Bad economy helping funeral industry

[syndicalist]

Guns and ammunition, liquor, candy, and the funeral industry are recession-proof!

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Weak economy sparks rebirth of funeral sciences

By JEANNIE NUSS, Associated Press Writer
Tue Sep 8, 5:36 am ETBOSTON - Facing impending layoffs at his manufacturing plant, Alan Willoughby left to seek financial security selling automobiles at a used-car lot.

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[crunk_cubed]

FUCK YES.

Im going to be going to school to become a mortician eventually. you make mad bank and will always have a job.

[salienne]

"Well, you don't have to pay your taxes, but I don't know anybody who has gotten away from the death part," said Kevin Davis, the funeral sciences director at St. Petersburg College in Florida.

Huh, I live right near there.

Well, if the psychiatry and writing things don't work out, looks like I've got a handy option c.

[justspaz]

"I've had some friends asking, 'Do you dream about it?'" Willoughby said. "It's not Hollywood. They're not going to jump up. They're not zombies. They're not going to chew your flesh off. That's someone's loved one."

So what you are saying is Six Feet Under lied to me? Damn you, dream sequences!

[___closetome]

Alan Ball lied to us.

[randomneses]

WOAH, WAIT, THEY MADE A MOVIE OUT OF THE LOVED ONE?!

We had to read that book in my 11th grade English class and I loved it.

[syndicalist]

The movie is uneven, but the parts in it that are good, are great. It's definitelyw orth seeing. Liberace's cameo (above) is pretty good. Also, Rod Steiger plays a funeral makeup artist and that is one of the most hilarious roles/performances in the movie...jaw droppingly funny.