Tag: Skill

• Sleeping Beauty

  A beautiful work of fiction for you this week from Angie McLachlan. Capturing the essences of a myriad of deaths, feelings and experiences, plucked from her 25 years serving families & caring for the dead through the sacred art and science of Embalming. Making clear this is more than just a job, Angie delves into the…

  Death and the Maiden

  23/05/2016

  Guest Post

  Achievement, Anubis, Art, Beauty, Career, Change, Choice, Deadmaidens, Death, Embalmer, Embalming, Emotion, Experiences, Fairytales, Family, Fiction, Grief, History, Loss, Mortuary, Science, Skill

• Female Professional Embalmer, 1900

  Miss Katie Smith, daughter of the late Gran W. Smith, the only lady embalmer in the South, has made a long and successful study of the subject of embalming, and today she is recognized as one of the most proficient practicing that art. There has been a growing demand for her services recently, her reputation…

  Death and the Maiden

  29/06/2015

  Maiden Post, Sarah Troop

  1900, Career, Change, Deadmaidens, Death, Egyptians, Embalmer, Embalming, Experiences, Gender Roles, History, Interview, Kentucky, Miss Katie Smith, Skill, Women