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A Quiet Funeral Not qualified? |
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Yes, if you consider the
proper definition of professional to mean qualified and working within
that field. But not, if you accept that being paid for performing a
function can also allow the term, professional and that there is no real
substitute for experience.
After all, If the funeral staff that you encounter offer a pleasant and caring countenance and are well presented and complete their task with competence, what more could you ask? It could bring up an interesting point over some funeral home advertising though; the term "professional" does seem a little over abused in some cases. Most of the people in the funeral service seem to genuinely care about the clients that they deal with. Some of them have joined the funeral service out of a desire to help in some way. A lot of them will have suffered bereavement themselves and it is often this that brings them in. There is no one type of person working the funeral trade: former policemen, firemen, clerks, ministers, painters, factory workers, nurses - you think of it and they’ll be employed somewhere in the funeral service. There are some that seem drawn to this work. There are, of course, the pure business people who will work any scam to gain a promotion or increase profit and achieve the "looking good" factor, but this is true of all working environments. There are sadly, the ghouls who get a sick kick out of their line of work and there are those who remain in it simply because their family has always done so. But mostly, there are the genuine, caring people who want to provide a helpful service to their community and who take a great pride in a job well done - sadly, they rarely seem to get promoted in the large companies! It should always be remembered, that while the gaining of a certificated qualification will show the ability to study and retain certain facts for a sufficient period of time to qualify, there is never any real substitute for good, solid experience; you can put the letters after the name but that's never any proof of ability to do the job properly. So does it matter if they have no formal qualifications? Never if, when the funeral is completed you are able to say that you were fully satisfied with their services and that they did a good job. |
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