What would you suggest to your friend if she wants to become a make up artist for a funeral home ?

My friend just called me and told me this. She is going to a cosmetology school here in NYC. She thinks, it must be easier to work on ';dead people'; than living customers ! I just told her to do some research as of ';how emotional it could be'; for her.


She is by nature, an emotional person. What would you do ? What would you tell her/him ?What would you suggest to your friend if she wants to become a make up artist for a funeral home ?
I work with this one lady who does hairdressing on dead people. It doesn't seem to bother her at all, but I don't think I could do it.





I would just tell your friend to make sure she knows what she's getting herself into. There should be something besides dead people for a cosmetologist to work on.What would you suggest to your friend if she wants to become a make up artist for a funeral home ?
I'd tell her she'd do really good, cause people are already just dying to use her services.! I'd tell here to do a good job, cause there are probably others around that will let her down. Payment arrangements for her services might be hard to accomplish, unless she could arrange a lay-away plan with them. But, even then, she would need to be careful, because the clients might try to stiff her, especially if the client brings a chair with them for Rigor Mortis to set in. In that case, she would have to wait til Rigor left to keep from being stiffed.
let her continue to do the course,she may be able to get work experience and get hands on time before she makes her final decision.


you be surprised at what may come out of this for her,it just might be her thing..i know a lady that does body retreival from accidents,hospitals,homes etc and i squint my eyes thinking of her job,but she finds it rewarding and tragic,she had just finished tending to a 4 yr old girl that was in a head on car accident,she started this job 2 yrs ago,she is 38..


she said most the people are over 35,as some of the younger folk couldnt cope,its full on,emotions at times..but there is a little bit of strenght in all of us,and its surprising wot one CAN do she says.
Wow ! Well, if she is ';emotional and passionate', I would suggest her to re consider ! Clo, you have the most strangest friends ! LOL !!!
';Clothing optional';
I would tell her ';Be the best you can be.';
she is confronting her greatest fear





be a friend.
Uh....um...I.....Uh.....well.....dude!?!


Are you sure you want to do that?
I think she should finish the school and get her certificate as a cosmetologist.. then she can still change her mind.. if she wants to work on living or dead people.. I am an emotional person.. very easily moved to tears.. but if you work in health care.. and you work in long term care especially, you have to wash and dress people who are very close to death..If they just can't do anything on their own... anymore and also need a lot of encouragement to just eat a little bit and to have a meal replacing drink.. to give them some energy when they can't eat at all.. those people need to be put on a mechanical lift..which has to be operated by two people. but one lady.. she is so skinny.. she only weighs like 85 lbs.. that I can easily move from the bed and lift into the wheelchair without help... I guess it may not be so scary after all to see some dead people and to do something for them after death.. some of them just look as if they were asleep... but take on a more waxen look as if they were not really there anymore as if this was just a shell.. which is why if loved ones see them they often see they look like the person they knew when alive.. but the soul is gone.. therefore they have a kind of empty look.. if your friend is a believer that the spirit lives on.. that we don't really die and that what she sees there is just a shell that the real part of this person has gone to a better place where there is no pain... crossing the rainbow bridge I call it, if she can think like that, then dead people will not scare her.. and it may make a big difference to the family who view the person who passed on .. if this p;erson has some make up on.. it makes it easier for those who loved this person to cope ... so she is doing a good job for a good reason..





People can emotionally do things they thought they weren't able to.. I know it from myself.. that I can talk to even young people who I know are going to die.. and be strong whilst in there.. if i have to go into the bathroom and have 5 minutes to myself afterwards that's another thing.. and I am emotional.. i cry over an emotional book even if it has a happy ending.. or something I watch on TV can move me to tears.. either in a happy way or a sad way.. so I think it has more to do with her religious beliefs.. if she believes in the everlasting life of the spirit.. then I think even an emotional person can do that.. she has to figure that out for herself.. in any case if she finishes this school, she will have a certificate or a diploma.. and can still decide if she wants to work on the living or the dead.. it's not a decision she should make over night..


It is emotionally a lot harder if you are a caregiver and a person you have known dies than to see a body.. and you never knew the person in life...


xxx
I have never heard of ';cosmetology school'; I would have guessed it was where they sent Russian astronauts, or hippies to the cosmic school of life. lol





It sounds like a dead end job.





I meet a man a few days ago, he is going to set up a studio opposite the hospital set up to take new born baby photographs, he asked if I would like to work with him %26amp; it sounds like a great idea.


Anyway I was thinking about working with people every day, that are experiencing their most joyous day.


The idea was quite thrilling, I love people %26amp; extreme happiness, overjoy, I couldn't go home after work without being plagued with good thoughts. I thought about Weddings being similar.


Then my thoughts led on to people in jobs that were the opposite, funeral homes cane to mind %26amp; I could not imagine taking it on.


I could do it, but what would it do to me?


I imagine you would have to be involved in the background of each case individual %26amp; intimately in order to present the desist in the way their friends %26amp; family would find appropriate.


Maybe part of that job is to liaison with family, I don't know.


Put that with bogging up someone's sons head or rearranging body parts to look how they remember him, it must take a particular type of person. Or learn to be detached from feeling empathy or something in areas I don't want to lose touch with.


So there you go, that just happens to be my recent thoughts on the matter.