Death isn’t always the easiest topic to tackle.
While it is something every living being on the planet will experience eventually, what happens to your remains after you die is a mystery to most and often a taboo topic around the family dinner table.
That wasn’t the case for 34-year-old Stesha Moore.
Moore’s uncle was a cremationist. Her mom worked in the office at the same crematory in Phoenix.
“My mom would talk about work when I was growing up and it would never bother me,” Moore said.
Moore’s exposure to the industry led her to get into the funeral business herself. She is currently a funeral service counselor for a funeral home in Tucson and is working toward her mortuary science degree.
On Sunday, Jan. 28, Moore, and her colleague Francine Martinez, another funeral service counselor, who is also earning her mortuary science degree, will be part of Mourning with a Mortician, a new Q&A session at the oddities shop Woolly Fern , 4401 E. Speedway.
Attendees will get to ask Moore and Martinez questions about the funeral industry, and what happens to our bodies from the time we die to the time we are laid to rest.