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else is getting? People want their loved one recognized as an individual, and to have the funeral portray and celebrate that person's life.
So, what can be done to compensate this demand for more out of funeral services? Well, that is the job for others like me, who are the next generation of funeral directors. At this point the people running funeral firms are too set in their ways, and will not easily be persuaded to change their practices in providing funeral services. However, their mortality will prove to open the door for this up coming generation, who, by the looks of it, is going to turn the funeral field upside down. Everyday as I look around my class room I see a wide variety of people entering the business with their own intentions of changing things. Not your everyday conservative is getting involved anymore. There is a new breed of funeral director coming into the inheritance of the funeral profession, and each of us have our own ideas of creativity to evolve the funeral while maintaining the expected dignity and grace of funeral services.

As with every change in society there is always a hurdle in the way. The task placed before the upcoming generation is getting their foot in the door with the dictators who already run funeral homes. The old timers place a huge emphasis on appearances, and the image of this new generation is far from conservative. Tattoos are in and dress is in every direction, hair styles are unique and physical appearance has taken a path out of the conservative norm, but what is to be done about it? I personally have tattoo work, and all of them can be covered. I also have long hair and a goatee, but those are things that are frowned upon by the funeral director today. Funeral directors feel that these new looks are inappropriate for their firms, and are turning away new interns and employees because of it. The questions that should really be in view though: How do customers of funeral services view these appearances of "modern" society? And does appearance play a part in a person's capabilities to perform their job? I have asked those questions to a wide variety of people, and I've gotten mixed review. For the most part I have gotten the desired answers though. From elderly people, the baby boomer generation, I have been told,
"As long as tattoos aren't visible, the dress isn't risqu or distracting, and the hair is well kept and tasteful, there isn't a problem." -Patricia Kirkland, age 65-
And from a younger generation

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