Comments on: We Asked, You Responded: When Did You Realize That Funerals Were Your Calling?

By: @richardsonjan1

@richardsonjan1 — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:01:06 +0000

Jessie: interesting – we were young and knew it would be our life calling. Not an easy road, no regrets.

By: Mrr

Mrr — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 19:41:58 +0000

3. One when I was about 2 or 3. The other I was about 7 or 8. And the last one was a few weeks ago. It’s really frikaeng weird to see a dead body that you once saw alive. Funerals are always a horrible experience for me even though I wasn’t really close to the people in any of the funerals I’ve went to

By: Jessie MacGregor

Jessie MacGregor — Thu, 14 May 2015 15:15:04 +0000

When I saw a funeral coach for the first time, I was four years old. Once my mom explained what it was for, I knew that one day I wanted to have one. At six, I read a National Geographic article on Egyptian mummification and started replicating the process as best I could with my Barbie dolls. At fourteen, my grandmother passed away from lung cancer and upon viewing her thought to myself that there had to be a better way to prepare people so that they’d look like themselves. At sixteen, I finally was given the opportunity to see an embalming and was hooked. Attended CCMS at 18 and graduated with my Bachelor’s in Mortuary at 20 (had a bit of a hold up in school due to back surgery). I guess you could say that I have always been called to this and I feel so blessed that the Lord chose me for this profession/lifestyle. I can’t imagine doing anything else with my life.