'Who comforts the comforter?' The unseen toll of the pandemic on people who work in the funeral service industry
Revenue boomed, funeral homes expanded as many morticians also buried friends, colleagues; ‘Who comforts the comforter?’
For Brian Myers, owner of a funeral home in Columbia, S.C., the Covid-19 pandemic has brought both professional success and personal loss.Brian Myers spent many nights during the pandemic embalming one person after another—some of them close friends—until morning dawned. His business, Myers Mortuary & Cremation Services in Columbia, S.C., was booming. Yet Mr. Myers, 45, said the additional work was marked by stretches of exhaustion and sorrow.
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