Living over a funeral parlour.

[Richard A Thackeray]

I know a couple who do
The wife is a member of one of the big local 'funeral families', so retains her maiden name on professional occasions
I used to run with/against Ian (hubby)

Both daughters went to the same junior School as our daughter, & were quite matter of fact about it all
And.................... the younger one has been known to dress as 'The Corpse Bride' at Halloween

On which note, apparently, they used to get left quite undisturbed on that night, with barely any knocks on the door!!

I went pale as the stiff and kind of staggered out the room. He followed me,laughing,saying i hadn't passed the test,but i could still have the job. I declined the offer and never applied for such a job again.

I sometimes speak to a few funeral home staff, at our Mortuary, particularly if they're from the above firm (or the one that recently interred my mother-in-law)

I've seen most of a PM, not in entirety, but previously, the (sorry, there's not an easy way of putting this) fridge area opened straight onto the PM room, & whatever was happening could be seen/smelt..........

 

[Bazzer]

Saw the thread title and thought you had somewhere new to live.

Really don't see a problem, other than (possibly) the smell of embalming fluid seeping through the floor. Much better than a newsagents or off licence which are much more likely to be broken into.

When I was at school, a lad I knew had a part time job at an undertakers and he wasn't related to the owner. Started off by sewing shrouds. Certainly different to the rest of us who had paper rounds

 

[matiz]

My son lives in a flat above the Co-Op
funeral parlour they line the horse drawn hearses up outside his front door ready for the trip to the cemetery just up the road, part of my daughters duties at her hospital is to move the dearly departed to the mortuary (or boot hill ) as the porters call it,and my bro in law is the gravedigger at the cemetery ,so we have got all bases covered and should be in line for a discount I hope.

 

[Maenchi]

Spooky !.........

 

[Paulus]

Could be handy, in the right circumstances......

Would save on transport costs

 

[Drago]

Having a corpse downstairs is probably a good burglar deterrent. @Drago did you ever go to any break-ins at funeral parlours?

No, not that I can recall. No one tried to break out either!

 

[User169]

More worried about the fact that I seem to be receiving quite a few e-mails at the moment offering me funeral insurance. I'm not that old.

 

[DCLane]

When teaching in Hong Kong my university almost always put me in accommodation above a funeral parlour. Apparently it was cheaper but there weren't any break-outs. Nor did anything ever go missing.

Oh, and it's timely that an e-mail just drops in with "Get a free funeral plan quote today" as the subject header! Nope. Not ready for that one. Cheated death in 2010. Cheated death again in 2016. Intend to keep going ...

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

My son lives in a flat above the Co-Op
funeral parlour they line the horse drawn hearses up outside his front door ready for the trip to the cemetery just up the road, part of my daughters duties at her hospital is to move the dearly departed to the mortuary (or boot hill ) as the porters call it,and my bro in law is the gravedigger at the cemetery ,so we have got all bases covered and should be in line for a discount I hope.

How did you escape getting a dead end job?

 

[Globalti]

Better than living in Switzerland in the same block as a flat that's being used by Dignitas or any other assisted dying organisation. Apparently residents become sick of the procession of people going in and corpses being carried out to ambulances and they protest, at which point the "clinic" moves on to another address.

 

[iandg]

Back in 1986 I nearly became a mortuary assistant. I applied for 2 jobs (trainee haematology/transfusion MLSO or Mortuary assistant). I took the MLSO job as money and prospects (it wasn't a dead end job) were better. In my current role (laboratory services manager) I also manage the mortuary services.

 

[classic33]

Having a corpse downstairs is probably a good burglar deterrent. @Drago did you ever go to any break-ins at funeral parlours?

Years ago someone broke into the one opposite the local police station.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I had to stop being over a funeral parlour. I found the suspense was killing me.

 

[craigwend]

I got talking to a chap down my local pub last night who's moved into a flat above a local funeral parlour. Me being a bit of a ghoul,creepingly fascinated by death and how we deal with it,i asked him how he felt about living just a few feet above someone who's led out,full of embalming fluid and facing right up at the ceiling that divides him/her from you. "You're only about 6 or 7 feet away from a dead body " i pointed out. He laughed and said he didn't mind as "they're dead,they can't harm you". They always say that. Maybe they can't harm you but the thought of a stiff only a few feet away while you're trying to get a night's sleep kind of freaks me out. I could handle it in the daytime,and even then i'd be having scary thoughts,but at night time when it's just me and the "guest" down below.
Could you live above a funeral parlour and what would you do if you heard some bumping coming from down below in the middle of the night?

Could be worse, well actually it is ... https://www.rentokil.co.uk/blog/rats-are-never-far-away/

 

[Globalti]

That's funny, my Hungarian neighbour once told me: "We Hungarians are like rats.... you are never more than five metres away from a Hungarian!"