A Cheerful Mortician's Perspective on Love and Life

About this episode

A small-town mortician shares insights on life and death, encouraging people to embrace funerals and not worry about being an inconvenience.

A small-town mortician savors life. Find out why "the internet's favorite mortician" encourages people not to skip out on funerals. And why he also advises listeners not to worry about "being an inconvenience" in either life or death. Guest: Victor M. Sweeney, author of "Now Departing: A Small-Town Mortician on Death, Life, and the Moments in Between" https://www.instagram.com/victor.m.sweeney/?hl=en https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ktLen9cVM

People in this episode

Guest: Victor M. Sweeney

Topics covered

• mortuary
• life
• death
• funerals
• perspective
• small-town

Keywords

• mortician
• funerals
• life
• death
• Victor M. Sweeney
• small-town
• perspective

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Now Departing: A Small-Town Mortician on Death, Life, and the Moments in Between

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