Posted by Vale
‘Aren’t undertakers old, gray of complexion, gaunt and, well, creepy?’
It’s the opening question in a 2007 article in America’s Obit magazine and, of course, the answer is no – as evidenced by the photographs shown in a calendar displaying all that is best of American male mortician manhood.
The Calendars were for charity and the mortician who organised the shoot – Kenneth McKenzie who has a funeral home in Long Beach, California – sees them as a humorous way to dispel the notion that morticians “are gray-haired and hunchbacked with no personality.”
Have a look at the original article to check for yourselves:
http://www.obit-mag.com/articles/omg-men-of-mortuaries
But I think a gauntlet has been thrown down in the USA. Anyone want to pick it up? And does anyone want to nominate a likely candidate?