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Walter Gable
August 8, 2023 at 8:59 pm
Dad Mode Activated. Haha
Sara Ismail
August 8, 2023 at 9:00 pm
i love you man
Ashley
August 8, 2023 at 9:02 pm
Love this guy, glad to see him a 3rd time!
A little sad that he seems to be married haha
Kinjiru731
August 8, 2023 at 9:04 pm
Victor is definitely one of my favorites that’s been on this video series.
Smexy Unicorn
August 8, 2023 at 9:05 pm
this man is too attractive to not be a psychopath
Benjamin Peacock
August 8, 2023 at 9:05 pm
Me: “there are no hot morticians.” Wired: “hold my beer.”
BaldEagle
August 8, 2023 at 9:06 pm
What if they’re a Corn Star?
Ho Lee Fook
August 8, 2023 at 9:10 pm
What about it
Katherine Tyson
August 8, 2023 at 9:07 pm
Visitation rights where a person was scattered… let that sink in.
Ho Lee Fook
August 8, 2023 at 9:10 pm
Victor needs his own channel im just saying
#0i0d
August 8, 2023 at 9:11 pm
What’s Twitter?
Aaaaaaaaaah
August 8, 2023 at 9:11 pm
“Why do graveyards never run out of room?” My cities graveyard has run out of space twice. They were able to expand once and now they’re looking for a new location for a new graveyard.
1uch1n11
August 8, 2023 at 9:12 pm
MICHIGAN!!!
EricOnYouTube
August 8, 2023 at 9:12 pm
Wow, a charismatic mortician. hehehehe.
Pyroific
August 8, 2023 at 9:13 pm
one of the most embarrassing moments of my adult life was accidentally pulling into a funeral procession and didnt realize what was going on for a few seconds before i saw the lights and was mortified at what i had done. i felt so bad
Grim
August 8, 2023 at 9:14 pm
If you wonder why someone would choose a mausoleum, how about you get yourself a tombstone in Louisiana. I’m sure the best thing for Christmas dinner would be to have Grandma float back up to the surface for one last dinner
The Alcremie Armada
August 8, 2023 at 9:14 pm
This guy is unbelievably great at this. Incredible experience.
JJ Moore
August 8, 2023 at 9:15 pm
SWEENEY!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌
David Mann
August 8, 2023 at 9:16 pm
As a pastor, I always heard some of the best humor between myself and the funeral director in the hearse on the way to country cemeteries. By the way, can you buy one plot for the spouse who is buried in a casket and then place an urn with cremains in the same plot?
Mara Pickles
August 8, 2023 at 9:18 pm
In Minnesota I’ve gotten completely cut off by funeral processions. Like I’ve seen entire intersections taken over in a split second by a hearse and it’s contingent.
MERCHIODOS
August 8, 2023 at 9:21 pm
I’m surprised why no one asked why do funerals (mostly American) have an open casket?
XxbigboixX 352
August 8, 2023 at 9:22 pm
My goofy ahh thought it was mortician the band 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️💀💀💀💀🙏🙏
John Catson
August 8, 2023 at 9:22 pm
“I have never actually coped” is a such a good quote
Hannah Birdsong
August 8, 2023 at 9:25 pm
LOVE THIS GUY
Andrea Rivero
August 8, 2023 at 9:26 pm
Even though the topic is death, it’s just a joy to watch him! Love that he always returns after a while with another video.
KookaburraSniper
August 8, 2023 at 9:27 pm
Omg I thought this was Chamber cosplay.
EileenX
August 9, 2023 at 8:27 pm
yes! this guy is great
CWM
August 9, 2023 at 8:33 pm
The LEGEND is back! 👏🏼👏🏼
Stelladona Confredo Butler
August 9, 2023 at 8:37 pm
You were great Mr Sweeney, thanks
Deirdre Sokolowska
August 9, 2023 at 8:51 pm
lol Polish families (like mine) take photos with dead relatives. It’s not that weird. I think it’s a part of the grieving process and it’s a memento of being with your family in hard times. I dunno why people get so icked out by it. I probably wouldn’t post it on social media without a content warning photo beforehand for people outside of my family that would be upset by it though.
HanumanD S
August 9, 2023 at 8:52 pm
Whats Jhon cena doing here? lol
Wood Guy
August 9, 2023 at 8:52 pm
They never run out of burial space is because they stack the coffins on top of each other like cord wood…..OK OK, settle down, I was just kidding.
P F
August 9, 2023 at 9:00 pm
HE’S BACK!!!!!
K Robert Schlüter
August 9, 2023 at 9:00 pm
These videos are great.
Henrique Haute
August 9, 2023 at 9:01 pm
100% thinking of @Grav3yardgirl when he speaks about this girl Bunny
NjP
August 9, 2023 at 9:02 pm
uHm AkShUaLlY, tWiTtEr Is CaLlEd “X” nOw. 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
eugkra33
August 9, 2023 at 9:02 pm
This ain’t twitter
Luke Woodyard
August 9, 2023 at 9:02 pm
What is twitter?
Kate Pustay
August 9, 2023 at 9:05 pm
Yay, more Victor!!
Matt Tran
August 9, 2023 at 9:07 pm
Hey Victor is back! I love this guy. <3 <3
TheOnly Informant
August 9, 2023 at 9:09 pm
Am I crazy or did I keep hearing his stomach growling the entire time?
Argyle Dinosaur
August 9, 2023 at 9:11 pm
OH MY GOD HE’S BACK. SOMEBODY GET LEON AND MRS. LUSH ON THE HORN.
ChaoticOrcPaladin
August 9, 2023 at 9:13 pm
I am an organ donor (eventually) and was hoping he would expound on the issue of what happens to your remains. Do they take everything immediately after death, return the leftovers in time for the funeral? Is that process hours, days, weeks or months? I assume you’d have the same choice of cremation or burial or sky burial, etc.
I just want people to light up a joint at my funeral, tell some funny stories and have some fun. No church, no priest. Just friends and family.
Michael Eco
August 9, 2023 at 9:14 pm
Why is Wired featuring White Supremacist hate social media “X?” Are their advetisers aware of this.
Morgan Huddleston
August 9, 2023 at 9:16 pm
My family is Irish, we passed around a bottle of bourbon at my great grandma’s graveside. Once everyone had a turn, my great uncle chugged the rest of the bottle 🫠
Tracy Hilt
August 9, 2023 at 9:16 pm
I could listen to this guy all day
Bonus Eggs
August 9, 2023 at 9:20 pm
Lol that embarrassing twitter “X”
Andrew Browner
August 9, 2023 at 9:22 pm
i dont get how the person on the opposite side of the road pulling over helps the funeral move along any faster… and if the hurse is only doing the speed limit chances are they wont pull up behind the general public who is for the most part driving 10 over the limit
Scooter.Newt
August 9, 2023 at 9:27 pm
When I die I give whoever finds me permission to just throw me in a river or feed me to some pigs like a murder victim.Funerals are expensive.
Casey smith
August 9, 2023 at 9:27 pm
Some Cemetaries do run out of space. Look up the one near Sauk Trail Elementary school in the Middleton area of Madison, that one is full now.
James Smith
August 9, 2023 at 9:28 pm
Even in death you can’t escape rent
Emette Loonette Eislie
August 10, 2023 at 6:46 pm
I wanna see him and Ask A Mortician discuss the funeral industry, it’d be interesting
Drknow1984 !
August 10, 2023 at 6:46 pm
What is that low gurgle sound that keeps going on throughout the video? It’s faint but it sounds like either the chair squeaking or some gut rumbles.
H R
August 10, 2023 at 6:50 pm
Well, the spreading of ashes depends on WHERE. If it’s your own property that’s one thing, but say National Parks, you generally have to get permission to do it legally. Furthermore, private property may prohibit this (such as you can’t spread one’s ashes at Disney in most if not all cases). I think there was a case on this that some lady was arrested because she either intended to or did spread her deceased son’s ashes along one of his favorite rides. As to this NP reason, some have said it may have to do with damaging the soil (even though ashes generally don’t harm anything but it could upset the biomes in the soil).
Re_Animated Abby
August 10, 2023 at 7:07 pm
My father recently passed in May. Luckily the funeral director was a family friend. So we go into this room full of caskets between 15-24 but the funeral director standa in between 2 large caskets. Now again this person had known my dad and his family before he was even born. He’s buried everyone in my father’s family. So the first thing he says is “So we all known Steve (my dad’s name) was a big boy and yall have had to make some tough choices today. So I promise you this next question will be the easiest thing you answer.” He then gestures to the casket to his left then to the casket to his right and says “A or B!”Honestly it had us all in tears in the best way. That day I learned that yes larger caskets are a thing and not as common. Luckily the choice was really easy! Turns out one if the caskets was the exact one my dad’s father was buried in. Lol they were buried side by side! So yes plus side caskets are a thing!
Snickerdoodle
August 10, 2023 at 7:08 pm
Extreme embalming just sounds like taxidermy
Adrien Renaux
August 10, 2023 at 7:09 pm
The luncheon after my grandfather’s funeral is still one of the fondest memories I have with my whole family. I completely see the point of it
SupernovaXS
August 10, 2023 at 7:21 pm
6:11 I’m still applaud Sesame Street’s writers for choosing to explain death to its young audience instead of writing the character Mr. Hooper out of the show when his actor died. One of the many reasons why that show was so transformational.
J Nava
August 10, 2023 at 7:28 pm
I like how everyone keeps calling it twitter
Sarah Bouachir
August 10, 2023 at 7:37 pm
Cant wait to see his true crime serial killer story on netflix in 10 yrs
Taylor T
August 10, 2023 at 7:47 pm
Mortician Keith
L B.
August 10, 2023 at 7:52 pm
lmao TIE BET
Ângela Baltazar
August 10, 2023 at 8:06 pm
Mr. Sweeney’s back!!! Yessssss
Sara Shields
August 10, 2023 at 8:07 pm
I know for fact you CAN NOT dump cremated remains on Disney world. If caught it’s a code white, you’re escorted out of park and remains cleaned up and tossed. If caught doing this on a ride (cameras) ride is shut down and the mentioned process. Probably a fine too. So can’t just sprinkle ashes anywhere you want. So much for my final resting place. Irish wakes were founded on the belief that the person wasn’t for certain dead (see graveyard shift) so to be sure they were dead a party was held to see if the dead would wake up.
Brittany Danielle
August 10, 2023 at 8:15 pm
funerals are police escorted where i live, so we are kinda
forced to pull over 😅
Asdfssdfghgdfy
August 10, 2023 at 8:20 pm
The visitation rites where ashes are spread has sparked my morbid curiosity. I wonder what the limitations are here?
WurmToken
August 10, 2023 at 8:22 pm
Chair is too loud
Duncan Chew
August 10, 2023 at 8:33 pm
Absolute legend.
Kmila Ardila
August 10, 2023 at 8:44 pm
I love this guy!! Happy to see him again
Maria Martinez
August 10, 2023 at 8:45 pm
❤❤❤
MK8 Master!
August 10, 2023 at 8:58 pm
Wakes are more positive than funerals. They focus on the life the person lived rather than the fact they are dead now.
Michael Hardy Sr
August 10, 2023 at 9:07 pm
I didn’t go to the reception after my parents services. Nothing bad about it, just wanted to be alone.
Cristián M
August 10, 2023 at 9:10 pm
You could definitely say that the business of death can make you a life.
Laughing Orange
August 10, 2023 at 9:28 pm
My family had a luncheon at my grandma’s funeral. It was nice to spend some time with the people who loved her (or most of them due to COVID restrictions). In church we were all sad over what we had lost, but afterwards we sort of celebrated her life.
J M
August 11, 2023 at 7:36 pm
6 feet under is a great show!!!!
no name
August 11, 2023 at 7:38 pm
carrying this series on his back
Christian
August 11, 2023 at 7:42 pm
Please help my eye twitching problem and pronounce it “neesh” not “nitch” 😂
Joshua Woodruff
August 11, 2023 at 7:48 pm
This funeral director appreciates all that you do in this channel. I’m glad to see you in another great video. Thanks, Victor, for your professionalism.
Nathan Haimson
August 11, 2023 at 7:50 pm
Sometimes mausoleums are necessary. That’s why New Orleans cemeteries look the way they do. Flooding used to cause a lot of problems, so they started putting everyone above ground.
Officially awesome
August 11, 2023 at 7:53 pm
Glad they’re not calling twitter X 😂
lilbigp
August 11, 2023 at 7:54 pm
Great guy great video
🙂
Thomas Nesmith
August 11, 2023 at 8:01 pm
Yes it can feed a tree indirectly. You are a mortician not a biologist.
Tom Watson
August 11, 2023 at 8:03 pm
Coffin has a lid, casket has a divided lid so you can view the body …..
Justin D
August 11, 2023 at 8:18 pm
If you keep calling it Twitter, I’m going to keep calling it Ft Bragg
Tayla Marie
August 11, 2023 at 8:21 pm
It wouldn’t surprise me if Bunny was graveyard girl.
Magali
August 11, 2023 at 8:30 pm
I’m sorry to hear your best friend took his own life ❤️🩹
Alexandra Pasquinelli
August 11, 2023 at 8:38 pm
Wait a second I guess I’ve been frozen in time inside of Lenin’s tomb or something because I was not aware of extreme embalming. I’m going to look into it but the idea of embalming people in action scenes seems brilliant and worthy to me. I mean if people are willing to donate their organs at death, they will be even more excited to donate their bodies to corpse scenography. This seems as valid as the endevour of
Contemporary film and television making.
Oscar
August 11, 2023 at 8:39 pm
Shoutout to Michigan Mr. Sweeney!! 🧤
BladeBaron
August 11, 2023 at 8:43 pm
Well done.
Kender Ostlund
August 11, 2023 at 8:54 pm
I clicked this video thinking it was about magicians burying themselves. It actually turned out better than that
Alessa Cassandra Ramos
August 11, 2023 at 8:57 pm
YAAAAASSSSS HE’S BAAAAAACK
fred fredburger
August 11, 2023 at 9:01 pm
Here’s something I’ve always thought about: could I be buried in the soil with no casket and have a young tree planted directly above where I’m buried? Would my decaying body feed the tree? If that tree was dug up decades (or more) later would they find my skeleton wrapped up in the roots of the tree? Anyway, that’s how I’d like to be disposed of after I’m dead.
DarkGamingTV
August 11, 2023 at 9:04 pm
YOU WANT TO PLAY? LETS PLAY!
Ilde Salinas
August 11, 2023 at 9:14 pm
This guy is freaking awesome, I’m glad he was brought back!
Mikey2111
August 11, 2023 at 9:15 pm
Here in the Netherlands you rent a plot for 10 years which is usually 15 years. Just when they need the space. After that you can decide to rebury the remains. Cremate them or do nothing with them. Then they throw the remains in a shaker and the remains of a lot of plots get buried together in a big grave. I just got the letter that the plot of my grandma’s grave is up so i have till january to visit the grave.
jazzybash1
August 11, 2023 at 9:18 pm
I honestly prefer lively and loud funerals(homegoings) vs a very depressing one. That’s just me
GreenGuren
August 11, 2023 at 9:25 pm
Love to see you still using the REAL Twitter logo
Lady Rachel🌟
August 11, 2023 at 9:28 pm
I’ll tell you when I buy the farm there won’t be a viewing. I’m gonna be cremated and my ashes scattered and my family can have a memorial service.
skylineranches
August 11, 2023 at 9:28 pm
Interesting!
Oakmaiden
August 12, 2023 at 2:01 pm
Shoutout for green burial! It’s my choice. The idea of being returned to the earth as soil that enriches the wolrd that birthed me. Dust to dust.
Oakmaiden
August 12, 2023 at 2:04 pm
The extreme embalming is echoed in Russia. They have huuuuuge headstones with lifesized portraits engraved on them.
runger723
August 12, 2023 at 2:08 pm
This man is so fine and for what, just to break my heart?
Oakmaiden
August 12, 2023 at 2:13 pm
In my experience one doesn’t need to pull over for a procession. If I’m in front I’m probably driving faster and the procession is moving slower. I was taught not to cross or impede one. Usually there is a leader on a motorcycle that stops all traffic at intersections. Following one is slow, then I turn off and go another route.
Georgia
August 12, 2023 at 3:20 pm
3:17 Bunny as in grav3yard girl?? 👀👀
random person
August 12, 2023 at 3:22 pm
ive been to many irish funerals and they arent saying good bye to someone as much as celebrating their life when they were with us
Rick Sanchez
August 12, 2023 at 3:44 pm
yoooo chamber irl
DOC M
August 12, 2023 at 4:09 pm
I love Sweeney’s videos the most, awesome guy! ❤
Alpine
August 12, 2023 at 4:12 pm
Pissed I cant get a sky burial in Austria. Basically only ash burials. Just chuck me in the woods and let nature take over…or that weird dude living in the forest at that point I dont care
Tuomo Heinävaara
August 12, 2023 at 4:29 pm
The man is back
Adam Hebert
August 12, 2023 at 4:36 pm
The tropical cabana vibe post got me lol. My grandfather was stationed in the Philippines and made us promise to wear Hawaiian and tiki shirts for his funeral. Got some great reactions at the funeral
R.J. Powers
August 12, 2023 at 5:14 pm
I always learn new fascinating aspects of end of life rituals in these videos. You make the subject clean and straightforward. Very interesting. Thanks for these.😊😊😊
nihilisticbarbie
August 12, 2023 at 5:21 pm
The thought of this guy having to break up fights makes me cry he shouldn’t have to do that
LonePan
August 12, 2023 at 5:40 pm
this dude getting more views than steph curry is funny to me
WigglyTuff Stuff
August 12, 2023 at 6:01 pm
What is the mix between cremation and burial??
Yessie Kawaii
August 12, 2023 at 6:08 pm
I live in Arizona & I’ve always seen the cars wait and let them family drive by , however there’s usually police escorts as well
Bard’s Trains
August 12, 2023 at 6:17 pm
We need more of Victor Sweeney
dhrandy
August 12, 2023 at 6:24 pm
In North Carolina everyone pulls over to the side for a funeral procession. We do it out of respect to the family.
No
August 12, 2023 at 6:29 pm
14:22 in english villages we usally slow down if a hearse goes by. Its a sign of respect ig. We haveno reason to do it but its a thing we have always done. I dont understand it reslly but i do it as well 🤷♀️
Anaëlle
August 12, 2023 at 7:33 pm
That’s so interesting because in France you CANNOT scatter ashes where you want. You have to put them in either a regular cemetery or places called “memory gardens” where they basically assign each person a plant and you can visit the garden. Also you either have to be buried/put your ashes in the city you live or the one you were born. Unless you ask a special authorisation to the Mayor of the city you want to rest in and they accept. And you can’t keep the ashes in a house for more than a year!
livsangels
August 12, 2023 at 7:42 pm
please embalm me
Gringo Bandito
August 12, 2023 at 7:56 pm
Yay the Pixar undertaker
animefn
August 12, 2023 at 8:38 pm
Regarding the spreading of ashes, you should have mentioned you can’t scatter them on private property.
Sunny
August 12, 2023 at 8:40 pm
I’ve never thought of attending a funeral solely for the food. 😂
The Cinemagician
August 12, 2023 at 9:19 pm
I really love that he explained the wooden dowel replacing the femur, but didn’t say anything else about the skin. 🤣
MultiMightyQuinn
August 13, 2023 at 9:34 am
This was really interesting. I got questions answered I didn’t know I had. Thanks for your time!
Sarahawke
August 13, 2023 at 9:36 am
I really enjoy Victor’s tech support videos 🙂 I hope he does more!
Mr. Binks
August 13, 2023 at 10:19 am
Im gonna spread grandmas ashes at the gentlemens club so they can no longer deny me access
Dislike button-chan
August 13, 2023 at 10:39 am
I’d love to see this guy go daddy mode 😉
James Perkins
August 13, 2023 at 11:03 am
Is this the first three-peat guest? He’s definitely a fan favorite!
Michael Ho
August 13, 2023 at 11:09 am
The Ex X is Twitter
Kiaanti
August 13, 2023 at 11:16 am
My favorite guy is back
Camila Nunes
August 13, 2023 at 11:22 am
I love watching Victor M. Sweeney. To me, the best person of this Tech Support Series.
Grimm Quote
August 13, 2023 at 11:28 am
Taking to kids about death reminded of that particular episode of Sesame Street where they had to teach big bird about death. I think, if there’s anyway I can think of breaking it to children, that’s the way for me.
Kaiden Rojas
August 13, 2023 at 11:49 am
14:31 where I live (Virginia) it’s actually LEGALLY REQUIRED that people get out of the way of funeral processions. As such, they also usually have a small police escort that will use things like sirens and whatever to let people ahead know that the procession is coming so they have time to do what they need to do. This is of course according to last time I read the DMV handbook that you have to take a test on for a driver’s permit, so I could be misremembering something given it’s been a little while
Kaiden Rojas
August 13, 2023 at 11:54 am
To add onto this, I’m sure he probably won’t see this youtube comment and has obviously made peace with it, but I can’t imagine how it felt to do the obituary for a friend’s funeral after they killed themselves. I’m so sorry man, but I’m glad you are doing well despite the hardship
Heckin' Gremlin
August 13, 2023 at 12:11 pm
Funny story now that I think about extreme embalming, according to a story my Dad regularly tells, some family members of mine several generations back, exhumed their grandfather per his final wishes unbeknownst to any city officials, and they partied with him all night, Weekend at Bernie’s style, playing poker, dancing, and drinking moonshine, etc. they even invited all their friends and some strangers over for the bash, eventually some of the guests connected the dots as to what the odd smell was, and called the police.
When the police arrived, they were both confused and appalled at the sight of a bunch of Drunken people partying with a corpse, ultimately they made the brothers go bury grandpa again, and the city issued fines in secret, because they didn’t want a story going around about a couple of Hooligans digging up their Grandpa and getting hammered with him one last time, per their Grandfather’s final wish.
Caroline P
August 13, 2023 at 12:53 pm
It’s so refreshing to see an actual professional talking about our business in a respectful way. More people need to listen to this FD rather than wanna be funeral influencer Caitlin doughty
Hiker Clarence
August 13, 2023 at 12:56 pm
The sky burial thing is actually a really interesting way that practicality manifests in culture. The mountains where it is practiced are too high elevation for large trees to grow, so wood is too precious a resource to expend on burning bodies. The soil is extremely rocky, making it impossible to dig enough to bury a coffin. Dead bodies have to be disposed of somehow, as they smell and spread diseases. So the only real option is letting the corpses get picked off by vultures in an isolated location. The people who live here and practice this don’t find it gruesome, as in their interpretation of Buddhism, the body is just a vessel for a spirit so once the body is dead, it’s fine to let it return to the earth and feed animals that depend on dead bodies for survival.
Sort of related: while Buddhism is often associated with vegetarianism, the buddhists in tibet eat meat. Again, because the soil is so hard and rocky and because of the elevation, most vegetables don’t grow, so meat is essential for survival at those altitudes.
DARK SIDE OF THE MOOD
August 13, 2023 at 1:26 pm
TAi-BET???????
Inneedofmentalhelp
August 13, 2023 at 1:38 pm
im in LOVE with this guy 😍
Titi Lectric
August 13, 2023 at 2:04 pm
3:14 Actually YOU can decide who is and is not allowed at your funeral in your last will and testament, not the family if you’ve already made it clear in writing.
Wildfire
August 13, 2023 at 2:06 pm
2:57 Exceptions include but may not be limited to an intentional open-casket, photographed funeral.
jenlise815
August 13, 2023 at 3:49 pm
AYO!!! My man back! 🎉❤
BDWriter
August 13, 2023 at 4:27 pm
My dad is a pastor. Numerous time he’s been expected by the families to direct a wedding or a funeral.
TAPIOCA 55
August 13, 2023 at 6:28 pm
11:27 this is a good answer
SegaClouds
August 13, 2023 at 6:48 pm
This guy is the reason I’m going to become a mortician.
No Stone Unturned
August 13, 2023 at 7:44 pm
I’m now going to find the Twitter profile of that person who asked about moving over for a funeral procession and roast them because they seem like a royal prick.
Update: Found him! He’s a twitter troll with a hipster handlebar mustache….not shocked
Pinkie Thief
August 13, 2023 at 8:04 pm
Joe Pera?
John Hamm
August 13, 2023 at 8:27 pm
_as one does_
0damnshawty111
August 13, 2023 at 9:12 pm
he’s so fine
Wolflokie
August 15, 2023 at 8:12 am
Loved having him back!! Totally learned alot!! Thank you so much can’t wait for your next video!!
Bernice!!!
August 15, 2023 at 8:13 am
He’s back! So happy.
Jalon F
August 15, 2023 at 8:50 am
It is respectful to pull over. He’s also right, that there’s something about getting together, sharing meal, and bringing up memories so that we can laugh, etc…
As I get older we don’t have family reunions in backyards or at parks, nope, we get together at a banquet hall after the funeral.
Charli Meyvonson
August 15, 2023 at 9:26 am
can yall make a pharmacologist tech support it would help a lot in my study thanks
Chubby Johnson
August 15, 2023 at 9:34 am
I’m a big Black Sabbath fan. I’m going to have an electric funeral.
ReeAllTheFirst
August 15, 2023 at 9:36 am
Super charismatic dude.
Robin
August 15, 2023 at 11:09 am
CAN SOMEONE MAKE THIS MAN PLAY THE MORTUARY ASSISTANT
Nicholas Nixon
August 15, 2023 at 11:16 am
This dude looks like a cartoon mortician
Jeffrey S
August 15, 2023 at 11:22 am
My wife planned her funeral in detail in part because she had AML and I think it helped her deal with it. When you are young and get a terminal disease you do things to provide some control over your life and death.
Razud_Mezeghis
August 15, 2023 at 11:37 am
Thats really weird… tought it was a movie thing the fact you turn the funeral into a lunch “party”…
Here in Europe, one visit the chapel with the dead, pau condolences, go to the funeral next day and its done… theres only the week, monthly, half year and yearly mass in memory of the decease.
DeJ Ebony
August 15, 2023 at 11:51 am
For the last question sadly that’s also the first and one of the last time you see some of the ppl that u haven’t seen in years. Most families don’t see each other unless it’s a funeral or a wedding.
LilithDeath 138
August 15, 2023 at 1:04 pm
All men cremated equal. But not all men are cremated.
LilithDeath 138
August 15, 2023 at 1:05 pm
I really want a sky burial but will never happen
seejay
August 15, 2023 at 1:33 pm
he’s back aaaahhh! haha he’s so wonderful and fun to listen to
Joe Toel
August 15, 2023 at 3:25 pm
There are Jewish cemeteries in Prague where the bodies are six deep…
Cindy H
August 15, 2023 at 3:31 pm
Oh my gosh he’s back! Yeeeeeesssssss! 😍
Kiki Toepper
August 15, 2023 at 3:44 pm
Make him read thristy tweets
TheTSense
August 15, 2023 at 4:31 pm
After 40 years the grave is dug up and everything thrown into the trash. When I was 8 I found out the graveyard in our town had a big pile of trash besides it. With a human skull just sitting there
Lane Corduroy
August 15, 2023 at 4:40 pm
even the dead can’t escape eviction
Sam Dean
August 15, 2023 at 4:49 pm
Everyone wore camo jackets at my dad’s funeral because he always wore them no matter how serious the gathering/meeting. It made the funeral a lot more light hearted and I’d do it again in a heartbeat
sporty spice
August 15, 2023 at 6:09 pm
is it bad that i want to have this man’s children 😅
Mx's Legacy
August 15, 2023 at 6:20 pm
The dead joke lmfao bruh
Love Tate
August 15, 2023 at 7:21 pm
I am subscribed to this channel solely for this man.
Levon Darratt
August 15, 2023 at 9:06 pm
Got me good when he said “Looking something like a big roast beef” . I wasn’t ready for it 😂
Chelsi Adams
August 15, 2023 at 9:35 pm
I lost both of my paternal grandparents within 6 months of each other last year. My first “real” loss as in close family members. I’m unsure why my grandma opted for a mausoleum, I was probably told at some point but have forgotten. But if I had to wager it was due to not wanting to be worm food or being in the ground, I feel like that’s something she said at one point. It was also selected for my aunt who died as a teenager long before any of my siblings or I were born. But I thought it was really sweet that my grandpa opted to be cremated and placed in the casket with my grandma so she wouldn’t be alone in the cold vault/crypt. Whether that was the real reason, or if my aunt passing so young had meant she took my grandpas “plot” that sentiment still chokes me up and would have been very in character for him. Anyways even if I wasn’t the closest with them in their final years the grief comes on at weird and random times so I wanted to put this out into the void of the internet for some reason.
Dreams Of Glory
August 15, 2023 at 11:51 pm
Bunny like as in graveyard girl on YouTube?!
MadameDex
August 16, 2023 at 12:14 am
I would love to listen to this man and Caitlyn Doughty sit down for a beer and chat.
Annika B
August 16, 2023 at 12:48 am
HES BACK LETS GOOOO
Ash at Home
August 16, 2023 at 4:06 am
One of my dearest friends is a funeral director that I’ve known since I was 12. I wonder if “gallows” humor is a common thing for others in the funeral industry or just something my friend and I share to alleviate stress and make each other laugh. For instance she jokes I’m only friends with her cuz she can hide a body and I joke that she’s only friend’s with me because I’m a true crime nerd and have a photographic memory of how to make someone her customer…(this is all jokes we are just weird moms with a matching death positive sense of humor)
Muggins de Jinx
August 16, 2023 at 5:30 am
My former partner’s gran explicitly stated that one particular grandson was not to attend her funeral, several reasons all of them very good reasons in my eyes, but the family decided to let him be a pallbearer because “He was still her grandson” I was absolutely appalled.
dodiswatchbobobo
August 16, 2023 at 7:17 am
I like this guy, but should we really put the X on the thumbnail, it’s only going to last until Elon goes bankrupt.
Mateusz Cielas
August 16, 2023 at 8:52 am
why in USA you use caskets?
CB
August 16, 2023 at 10:52 am
“Sweeney”? Really? Come on man at least try to hide it
FourHundredDogs
August 16, 2023 at 10:57 am
3:57 Imagine you’re buried. Groundskeepers dig you up, and whisper “your rent is due…”
caprice power
August 16, 2023 at 2:42 pm
most people don’t understand that they don’t have to ask funeral personnel about things..thier is plenty of literature out thier on the questions they want to know..asking a funeral director or whoever isn’t always the right thing..cuz they are gonna have alot of personal feelings about things….the days of them being Counselors for people are over…its about money and merchandise now…just get cremated and stop making things complicated…have a Lil memorial party after and stop spending all that money
oh hi!
August 16, 2023 at 3:30 pm
MICHIGAN REPRESENT !
Randy Bourdon
August 16, 2023 at 3:59 pm
Thoroughly enjoyed your comments on these questions, thanks for sharing!
Out Ofthisworld
August 16, 2023 at 5:49 pm
If I die please make my body.
shannon
August 16, 2023 at 5:56 pm
I was so disassociated when we were were cremating my mother. She passed suddenly on my 28th birthday (idk why but it always feels like that part…matters) and I don’t remember any of it all, right after the fact. So much was happening for us all emotionally. But I do know I handled/bore the brunt of all the arrangements so my dad didn’t have to. I can’t recollect/compartmentalize the process of it all, or what decisions I made. It’s odd. But this gentleman’s episodes in this series really help make me feel at ease, somehow. It’s very healing. Thank you.
alonelyshrub
August 16, 2023 at 6:28 pm
Welcome back, Brother! 3x–youre a WINNER!!! Thanks for the knowledge
shannon delphey
August 16, 2023 at 6:59 pm
At the first funeral I went to we ate all the food so we ended up ordering pizza and alcohol, it was for my great grandma and I was like 8. I just remember being confused the next time I went to one.
Csaba Nádasiioioo
August 16, 2023 at 7:02 pm
I have a story that is similar to the pulling over when there is precession/funeral. One of my classmates dad died and he was a train driver. The cemetery was quite close to a railline. His friends at the rail told everyone driving on that line to use their horns when they were driving at that section. The entire funeral had a background noise of trainhorns as the drivers gave their respect this way.
cupcake Adventures
August 16, 2023 at 7:03 pm
14:21 is out sign of respect learn it also I have his respond
mark l
August 16, 2023 at 8:50 pm
He is great!
jet44444
August 16, 2023 at 10:02 pm
He’s back!!! 🎉
Sophia
August 16, 2023 at 10:58 pm
I am not joking in the slightest: this is my favorite person on this planet. I would jump in front of a train for this man. This man is the coolest man in the world
X XXX
August 17, 2023 at 12:08 am
When I was visiting Nepal, I was riding fairly aimlessly around Kathmandu on a motorcycle just taking in the sights… one of those sights, more of a smell really, was a temple that conducts funerals using pyres.
Leslie Sonja
August 17, 2023 at 4:16 am
cremation > burial
Priscila Bee
August 17, 2023 at 4:18 am
That teeny tiny Barbie sized coffin is kind of adorable 😅
spacecat
August 17, 2023 at 4:38 am
Sky burial sounds the most ideal. It’s natural for bodies to be eaten by scavengers. Old graves can be interesting to visit but ultimately, we’re meant to be eaten by nature or I just want to be left in a barrow in my clothes and whatever iphone I have, a personal item, my debit card and some change, totally celtic style (local celts that existed in my region) and to confuse future archeologists. Or a body farm (not sure if the UK has those yet). I can be more useful in death than I am in life. 😂
The Angry Leprechaun
August 17, 2023 at 5:14 am
I’m gonna be turned into paint when I get cremated
Samantha Louise
August 17, 2023 at 6:22 am
As soon as he said ‘Bunny’ when he was talking about funeral crashers, I can’t be the only one who thought of grav3yardgirl 🤣
右手
August 17, 2023 at 6:26 am
This guy is really single handedly carrying Tech Support series and I love it honestly speaking.
Pie Towel
August 17, 2023 at 10:12 am
How do I wanna rewind after each answer… so many things to learn, and more questions after!
vincent ender
August 17, 2023 at 11:49 am
My gran pre planned hers i think the moment she got cancer, ans it was 4 years before she died
Daniëlle
August 17, 2023 at 12:10 pm
In the Netherlands I don’t think we have (many) family owned funeral homes. You usually use the one where you have your funeral insurance.
Jessica Armstrong
August 17, 2023 at 1:50 pm
I just want to enter the comment that the reason they have luncheons at funerals is because no one ever thinks to eat. There’s a lot of people who won’t think to eat and because of it they get all faint. A luncheon reminds you to eat something.
Khushi Shah.
August 17, 2023 at 3:06 pm
Mr. Sweeney can go “dad mode” on me _any_ time.
MadMage
August 17, 2023 at 6:38 pm
A question I didn’t see: do you get many requests for pets? How do you handle those?
Ian Bowers
August 17, 2023 at 8:54 pm
In awe of this assertive semicolon.