X-Message-Number: 22699
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 22:38:06 -0400
From: "Henry R. Hirsch" <>
Subject: How to find cooperative funeral directors

My method: Make an appointment to see the head mortician. When you go, look 
like a serious cash customer. Jacket, necktie, pressed slacks, haircut, 
shave, etc. Don't be apologetic about cryonics, but don't dwell on the 
subject. Act as if you were just another customer shopping for a plot in 
the cemetery. The funeral director will treat you with due respect if he 
believes it will be profitable to do so. Maybe it was just luck, but this 
worked for me in both of the major funeral homes here in Lexington, KY. One 
of the directors was so eager that I went further asked him what he would 
do if the airline refused to handle a corpse that was not embalmed or if 
the airport was shut down due to weather. He said he had a 4-wheel drive 
truck and could make the 400-mile run to Detroit under any conditions. Now 
that's what I call cooperative!

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