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Summary: Will Robots Take Over Mortuary

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Will Robots Take Over Mortuary?
Since the world is advancing so quickly, how many people are going to be replaced by robots? Will morticians lose their jobs to robots? It’ll be weird to have our funerals ran by things that aren’t even human and that probably don’t have the feelings to care like we do now. Many people don’t seem to care with how quickly technology is advancing, like most people are going to be out of a job soon.
In the movie “My Girl” Vada Sultenfuss father is a mortician and their funeral home is in their actual home. Thomas J tells Shelly that Vada is scared of death and that she freaks out whenever she is down in the basement where they prepare the bodies. She ends up having a panic attack and nobody can help her. …show more content…

Robots could not do all that because this job comes with senses that a robot does not have. They ask him what it is like to be near dead bodies every day and he said that it's not weird at all because he grew up around it.
He witnessed a wreck right by his house and the man did not make it. Then when EMTS got to the scene they pronounced the man dead and when they put him on a stretcher his head turned and he looked straight at him and he was curious about what happens to the body when someone dies. Robots should not be morticians because they go to fast and for a mortician you need to know how to manage your time and you need have a lot of patience.
Jackie Anderson is a funeral director and embalmer at Broadway Colonial Funeral Home. I asked her what she thought about robots taking over mortuaries and she said “I would like to think not. That is field of work is in high demand of human interaction and compassion. Since it is dealing so closely with the emotional and psychological portion of an individual.” She also goes on to say the the need for human interaction is a big thing with mortuary. That you need to be able to relate or be able to be there for the family (Anderson, Personal Interview). She also goes on to say that the need for real human contact …show more content…

Being a mortician isn’t an easy job. It’s requires long hours and late-night phone calls. Robots would not be a good mortician because say if a family wants a certain thing the robot would not know what to do. Death is a tough process and many people have problems coping with it. And being a mortician is not a 9-5 job. You can get a call at 4 A.m. to help transfer a body and or prepare a body for embalming and you may have some weeks where you barely work and other weeks where you work 60 hours preparing for a funeral. The working hours are very unpredictable. And with everything you will have a lot of social stigma family and friends will probably think you are crazy and weird. And you deal with a lot of bizarre situations. There are some gross situations and potential paranormal activities that could come up when working in a funeral home. And while embalming the body there are some clients that could of been in a accident and disfigured as well as starting post mortem muscle movements. You need to have the psychological fortitude to handle these situations if you want to work in the death industry.. And a robots does not have the psychological fortitude to work as a mortician. Dealing with clients and all the paperwork. The family of the deceased may be extremely demanding. The funeral process is comparable to a wedding everything has to be perfect. And since someone is hired to plan the perfect funeral and you may have

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