Property News · April 25, 2013

How do I become… an embalmer


Some modest GCSEs – and the right attitude – can get you on a two-year course, then the job might take you anywhereAs an eight-year-old, Kevin Sinclair would fetch the Hoover from the chapel beneath the family flat, see dead bodies in coffins and carry on. “They were just sleeping,” he says casually. “That’s what my parents would tell me.” What the average person would have considered macabre, he saw as normal and merely a matter of getting used to.And after getting used to it, he followed his father into the funeral business and became an embalmer, a job he has been doing for 22 years. He co-founded the Feltham-based London School of Embalming in 2006, where he embalms and teaches. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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