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Episode 55: Why Good People Leave Funeral Service with Jon Raper

Death, et seq. by Tanya D. Marsh

Sep 22, 202600:57:09Science & Medicine

Today, more than 90% of mortuary school students are first generation funeral directors. Three out of four of them are women. And increasingly, there are people in mortuary school who are in the middle of their lives, co...

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