![]() She began working at Crawford, an elite funeral home for the rich and famous in Manhattan, first as a receptionist and eventually as a funeral planner to the stars. She was so happy to have planned a funeral she knew her dad would have loved that she decided to get into the funeral business. Wanting to give her dead a proper sendoff, she planned a nontraditional funeral for him, forgoing lilies and funeral dirges for her mother's favorite flowers and The Rolling Stones. Enter Elizabeth Meyer, who in her early 20s lost her father to cancer. No one in her right mind would willing surround herself with funerals. Either option is almost guaranteed to include mental and emotional exhaustion and a mini-existential crisis. At their worst, funerals are your last, desperate moments with a loved one before facing the reality that you need to, somehow, carry on living without her. ![]() At their best, funerals are full of awkward air kisses and reminders of your own mortality while you try to be sad at the passing of an old, distant relative. In fact, you probably hope pretty regularly that you don't have to attend one anytime soon. Unless you're a member of the Addams Family, you probably don't get too excited about the idea of a funeral. ![]()
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