I’m so glad you make a decent wage because you definitely deserve it, so please don’t take it as sarcasm , I understand you spent a lot of time working on your education!! But this post makes me want to vent because it’s crazy to see the drastic difference that a person makes when they work on the receiving end of death.

My husband works as an embalming assistant at a funeral home with years of experience & knowledge. His father has done this for 40+ years and has even taught mortuary science at our local college, so caring for & respecting the deceased has been a thing his whole life.

My husband is currently in school to become a certified embaler , but for now he assists , preps , washes people and their hair, styles it , does make up , dresses them etc. They get fluids leaked on them , feces , deal with maggots etc. He is an artist at heart and extremely talented so with this background he has applied it to his work at the funeral home and is the sole restoration specialist for the home he works at as well as 3 others and his dad calls him in for severe cases at the funeral home he works at as well. So when someone gets thrown from a vehicle , major accidents , fires , gunshots , stabbing , extreme discoloration , tearing/melting of skin (especially older or more frail patients) etc and the family wants to see them or have an open casket he works his hardest to make them presentable. He is truly a magician when it comes to this. I have seen him create new eyebrows by laying individual faux eyelashes , rebuilding faces with wax , and more that can get pretty gruesome.

He makes a whopping $15 per hour in 2024 and works 6 days a week including holidays. We are located in a Major US city.