Funeral Director

Death is like theater in the sense that everything is done at a funeral for the purpose of the audience. It’s a performance with multiple roles being played out to represent sincerity, respect, and concern to their actions. The way funeral directing in unique in the sense of performance is that there is only one shot to get it right; there are no second takes. It’s also unique that the funeral director makes a living on the death rate in a community, meaning he cannot increase the business available by increasing the number of deaths, and he much carefully advertise in case someone might get the impression that he would like people to die. Therefore his only chance for increasing his business is by getting more of the business from deaths that
A funeral director must deal with objects which are both sacred and profane, which results the separation of the body work from the directive woke, putting distance between him and his assigned role. This can be accomplished by, say, dressing differently for embalming and for directing, or by hiring different people to do the body work so he can focus on staging the show without being seen as someone who is contaminated by contact with the dead. This isn’t necessarily the separation of the funeral director from his role, but rather the separation of the loathsomeness attributed to that role by his audience. Funeral directors tend to separate their own identity from the task of dealing with the bodies, effectively communicating detachment and alienation from the role one is performing. The backstage regions are the activities that are performed by the director and his staff that are later seen as respectful, appropriate tribute to the deceased. These are the extensive preparations ‘behind the scenes’ that will be used for the performance later. Back Region or backstage refers to the space and the activities hidden from the audience, and it is there for the purpose of masking and sheiling what happens back there in an interpersonal situation so the audience’s interpretation of the performance isn’t disturbed. The backstage area is
Instead of portraying death, as is what a funeral is, a funeral instead seems to be of sleep and eternal life. Most of this comes from the religious aspects of the funeral; many funerals treat death as a minor thing on the path of achieving glory. It’s a socially constructed behaviour to say things like ‘he or she is still with us’ which creates a normalcy for denying death. Funerals weave these constructs and social commentary into the performance of the funeral. In a sense celebrating the good aspects of the deceased to portray them in a positive light for their last performance in their