A Message From a Funeral Director [View all]

[berni_mccoy]

From Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/prhzi9/a_message_from_a_funeral_director/

My job is to sit at a table with people who have just lost someone they love, and now have to figure out what to do next. Someone who was the most important person in their life is now gone, and now their world will never be the same without them.

Now, I'm spending my days sitting with family after family who lost someone precious to them to Covid-19 when there's has been a vaccine for it available for months. I've listened to countless variations of "I tried to get her to get the vaccine, but she said no."

Today I had to look a man who had just lost his wife, and the mother of his children, in the eye while he asked me "She had , so it probably would have killed her even if she had the vaccine...right?" The only answer I could give him was "I don't know." I watched him walk around my funeral home, as she laid in her casket, a husk of the person he used to be. I know he's going to be asking himself for a long time; maybe the rest of his life "If I had tried harder to convince her. If I had made her get the vaccine...would she still be here today?"

She wasn't the healthiest person, but she wasn't old. And nothing that was wrong with her would have killed her anytime soon. She probably had 30+ years left ahead of her at least. But instead, she died of Covid-19.

I'm just so sick of this. I'm so tired of seeing lives broken by this disease, just because people have some kind of bias against a shot that could have prevent their death.

Just because you're mostly healthy and fairly young, doesn't mean your safe. Just because you've had Covid before, doesn't mean your safe. Just because you've been around it in the past and didn't get sick, doesn't mean you're safe. Go ahead and ask me how I know.

I go into hospitals, nursing homes, hospices all day. I talk to doctors, pathologist, medical examiners and other funeral directors all day every day. Guess how many people I've seen or heard about dying from the vaccine. Fucking zero.

I just wanted to share my perspective, and this seemed like an appropriate place. I guess just ask yourself, do you want to spend the rest of your life wondering if the vaccine would have made a difference? Or do you want to know that you did everything you could? Because I've got a stack of files on my desk of people who wish they could go back and do things different.