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Geeeez, Boot

I think I would have nightmares!
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Our hospital morgue is in the basement. Long narrow hall. Pale green tile. Looks like EVERY single scary movie show morgue you have ever seem haha! There used to be an old linens deposit down there. Someone always sent me. The hall lights always were dim and you just got off the elevator and ran. 35 years later and I still remember. CNA training in high school for health class and extra credit for extracurricular class.
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Need help.. that is so funny, because I work for a major HUGE hospital, and we keep adding new buildings.. and all the staff is getting lost a lot! My mom worked here before I was born, and she was always telling me about the morgue.. Now we don't have orderlies, as they used to be called, and our nurses have to take the bodies to the morgue themselves ( or did up until 5 years ago, now security does it) Once I was not busy and offered to help a nurse take the body down.. OMG it was creepy.. a long hallway full of stretchers, no way to turn around if you needed to.. ( run!!!). When we got to the morgue, there was a counter like at a dinner. I kid you not! And a door out the back filled with a parking lot of funeral home hearses! And a room off the side for the "uncollected remains". I never offered again! I politely stay in my ICU these days...
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Gershun,
Re: Clergy
The term for the clergy that you have described is called:

They are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
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Pam,

Ever take the wrong elevator in a hospital? I did. I was upset. It was right after my brother’s nearly fatal motorcycle accident and I accidentally got on the service elevator.

An employee asked me where I was headed because I wasn’t supposed to be on that elevator. Thoughts went through my mind of ending up in the morgue area of the hospital! The employee pointed me in the right direction.
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Geeeez, cwille

That would be creepy!
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Pam,

Hahaha. There are funeral homes that closed here that are now other places of business, restaurants, drugstores, daycares, etc. yeah, I have odd thoughts about it!

The opposite too. One time I went with my cousin to another cousin’s funeral. The funeral home used to be a Mexican restaurant. I kept thinking about all the tacos I had enjoyed there. My cousin too. We started laughing. It was horrible. We had to go outside to compose ourselves so the family wouldn’t wonder why we were laughing during a funeral!
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Need help. my DD recently took for a massage.. she told me the place was very near her house. When we were going there.. I told her it was funeral home when I was a college student! Indeed it was the same place, and they have done a fantastic job remodeling it into a great salon/spa. But I am glad they don't do the massages in the basement...LOL
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The funeral home in our very small town has been owned by the same family for a couple of generations and has served that purpose even longer. Although it has been renovated and expanded over the years it still has an apartment above - can you imagine raising your kids there?
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Is anyone spooked by funeral homes? I guess with Halloween around the corner I am thinking of spooky stuff. I had fantastic costumes as a kid for Halloween. I loved trick or treating.

We have the usual haunted houses here. New Orleans has a vampire 🧛‍♀️ culture because of Anne Rice being from our area. Of course there is Voodoo here. Marie Laveau was our Voodoo Queen. So lots of hoodoo and juju in our city too. New Orleans claims to be an extremely haunted city. We have cemetery tours because of our unique cemeteries.

One of the most famous haunted houses here is The Mortuary on Canal Street. It was at one time a real mortuary. It creeps me out. I’ve heard it’s really scary but I haven’t been. I have done some of the other haunted houses when younger but I can’t bring myself to attend one held in a former funeral home.

For the longest time I despised the color mauve because the funeral home that my family used had mauve walls. I always associated that color with death. I could not look at the caskets when my father died. My brothers went with my mom in that room to select one.

I guess the color mauve reminded me of my great aunts and other relatives funerals. People told kids not to be scared because the deceased were ‘just sleeping.’

That gave me nightmares for a long time. I used to think as a little girl that I would go to sleep and end up in a casket and be buried in the cemetery. It’s really a horrible thing to tell children but I guess they didn’t know any better then.
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Isthisreallyreal,

Then I say she should go for it! Why not? They very well may be a good match.
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Not to put down clergy of any type but I sometimes wonder if they lose touch with the real world. If they truly want to relate to those they are called to preach to they should at least be as grounded in what's happening in the world today as they are their faith.
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Just reading today. Hello.
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CW, if one's minister was concerned that someone was going to euthanize a parishioner, I would hope s/he would reach out to doctors/persons in authority/Family members. Not talk to another parishioner about it. Wrong on SO many levels.
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I wondered about that Barb, when he visited with mom I felt that for someone who ministered to a lot of old and ill people he didn't seem to have much of a clue about cognitive impairment or mental anguish.
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CW, is he basing his information on what an elderly and possibly demented patient is telling him? Is it possible the lady has been offered Palliative Care and doesn't realize exactly what that is?
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I had a discussion with my pastor yesterday about medically assisted dying (he brought it up, not me) and he relayed some anecdotal information that I found very disturbing, basically that an elderly woman he was visiting was being pressured to end her life. Given the research I've done this morning I can't help but feel there is something off about this story so I sent him some information about the steps laid out in the law and the protocols that must be followed before anyone "gets the needle" as he termed it, it seems he actually feared this woman would have been dispatched since his last visit. I absolutely agree that too many doctors don't see older patient's problems as worthy of investigation or treatment but IMO pushing for euthanasia is highly unlikely. This kind of misinformation coming from someone who is highly educated and a community leader is very concerning.
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Need, he does know her age. She has been good for him.

He was always a mommas boy, so it works out well for him. I just hope that he treats her better than he did the younger ones.
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Real,

Men do it all the time, have a young woman so why not? Good for her!

Just curious, does he know her real age? Hahaha

I wonder how many people do lie about their age.
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Or you could do what my brothers girlfriend did, got a man 25 years her junior. He will be taking care of her.

I think that she wanted to raise him up and train him. 😋
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Willie, at this point in your life any man you met would probably want you to be their caregiver. The last thing you need I'm sure.

Never say never but why do people always assume if you are single that it's not by choice. There are many days where I wish I was.
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Mom went and saw Dad today at hospice. According to her and the nurse, he looks dreadful but tried to get mom to take him out of hospice. (not going to happen) He was talking, not making much sense and was confused. He's barely eating. He's wasting away, losing a lot of weight. The doctor is turning off his defibrillator on Tuesday, my SIL is dropping off the POA to mom tomorrow. Besides that and receiving a nasty response from a poster on here, I am just in a great mood..NOT.
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It will soon be the one year anniversary of mom's death and the Pastor stopped by today for a visit. I've got to give the man points for trying, he does his best, but he really does say some pretty dumb things sometimes. Today wasn't the first time he's asked me if I'm looking for a man and told me the story of someone who married for the first time later in life. Enough already. And for that matter why does he assume I want a man, does he not even consider the possibility I might be gay? (I'm not, but I know half the people in the community where I grew probably assume I am)
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Madge, how is the Viking? Think about you.

And, yes, Happy Canadian Thanksgiving.
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Happy Canadian thanksgiving to all
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Guess what I did? I woke up early to cook so I wouldn’t have to cook after church. I completely forgot today was the fall picnic! I cooked and I didn’t have to. Oh well. We will it it tomorrow.

Perfect weather for the picnic. 80 degrees and sunny! Life in Louisiana! Father had the football game on a big projection screen. Who Dat! Hope we beat the Jaguars.
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CWillie,
Your waist will be grateful.
Do you need some help padding the walls? That stuff comes in colors, and is used for sound proofing. The church uses it also to improve the acoustics in the sanctuary.

For a quick fix, use a construction stapler, and staple egg crate mattress pads to the walls.

Is it too cold to tour your local garden center?
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Unfortunately we only get the donuts on the first Sunday of the month, LOL.
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It may be too late CWillie, but church has donuts!
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cwille,

Was just thinking what mass to go to, 11:30 or later this evening? I’m thinking the 11:30 service then come home and eat. Have food already cooked. Went out last night for dinner so staying home today.

Will burn a candle for everyone on the forum. 💗. Say prayers for me too please.
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