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Laurens Fish III, 36 funeral director.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-OCT-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Laurens Fish III, 36 funeral director.(The Working Life: STORIES FROM THE 9 TO 5)

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I'm not the stereotypical pale, pasty, morbid funeral director portrayed in movies or on TV. I'm just as normal as the next guy. But people always have a big reaction when I say what I do. I hear the same bad jokes--you know, "Oh, I bet people are dying to get into that business!" Or the same comments over and over, like "How do you do that?" and "You must just be callous." But I'm not callous. My wife can attest to the fact that I sometimes come home an emotional wreck. If there ever comes a day when I don't feel empathy for the deceased or their family, then I'll know it's time to quit.

I was in the funeral home a lot as a kid. My father's office was the room I'm in right now, and my grandfather's office was down the hall. The business was started in 1886, the same year as Austin's Driskill Hotel. As kids, we always had to have the...

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