Two TikToks & Ghana Ganga | 4M #193

Welcome to the hundred-and-ninety-third edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #193, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations in the week ahead. Bon appetit!

Worst place to work

How often has this happened when you’re conducting a graveside service? Thankfully, this guy quit his job after his boss showed up at his mom’s funeral just to tell him he’d used up his leave. 

Hartford sentenced

Miles Harford, the former Colorado funeral director at whose rented home were found dozens of boxes of cremated remains and decomposing body in a hearse, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his crimes. He pleaded guilty in April to one felony count of abuse of a corpse and one misdemeanor count of theft.

Now this is preplanning!

Is this what female funeral directors call a girls’ night? Jasmine thought her best friend, Alexis, was coming over to hang out, per usual. Instead, Alexis, who has worked in deathcare for six years, popped out her laptop and shared a 24-minute funeral montage — which she had prepared for her own passing, whenever that may occur. “Having a morbid best friend who works in funeral and cemetery services is not for the weak,” Jasmine told People. Alexis commented that she wanted to be remembered as she was at her “hottest.” The TikTok has gone viral, and in the process has most likely started more than a few conversations about preplanning your own services.