The Wake

There are many ways to combat drug use. You can punish the users or you can track down the dealers. You can impose huge fines or force junkies into rehab by threatening them with jail time. You can run sting operations with marked bills and undercover DEA agents. You can do cavity searches at all points of entry and train …

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Peacemakers (2003)— As forensic science is becoming a tool in crimefighting in the 1800s, a federal marshal, an ex-Pinkerton agent and a local mortician team up to fight crime in Silver City, Colorado.

Annabelle (2005)— Mortician Henry Spencer falls in love with Annabelle, a corpse in his morgue. Despite the obvious complications, Annabelle is able to teach him that love is not as he thought.

Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers (1989)—Using borrowed money from the mafia, a doctor and …

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“[We have funerals] not because it matters to the dead, but because it matters to the living.” – Thomas Lynch

When Levi Hendricks tells people he wants to be a mortician, he usually gets one of two reactions. Younger people generally find his choice of career morbid. Older people often launch off on a description of a wonderful funeral director who helped them, or someone they know, through a difficult time.

The mortuary science junior attributes the …

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