Outsourcing embalming; How regulation is changing one aspect of the industry.

Crain's Chicago Business | June 11, 2007| | Copyright

Byline: EMILY STONE

As a child, Melissa Johnson knew it was unusual that she lived above her parents' embalming business, where dead bodies often lay awaiting funerals.

Her father, Edward, would often leave their North Side home several times a night to pick up bodies, and her mother, Gail, alternated between family duties upstairs and body prepping below. Both taught at a local mortuary school and would often invite students over for dinner, where the discussion centered on the day's lessons.

"I knew that other kids weren't having discussions ...

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