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It's one of those things you usually don't think about: what will happen to my body when I die? Stacy Holmstedt has always been interested in the subject and in this talk she presents us with a very matter-of-fact answer to that question. She dives into the governmental and procedural consequences, while also explaining what's happening in the body at the same time.
Where does her knowledge come from? It comes from her childhood:
A few people asked me how I got interested in the topic of the body after death. My mom worked in the mortuary industry and we had a lot of dinner conversations about it. Usually while eating chicken. It was perfectly normal to talk about just how gory you had to be to warrant a closed-casket funeral (answer: extremely).At any given time, our house contained hundreds of dollars worth of funeral flowers. Someone had to take them or they were going to the landfill.
This talk was filmed at Ignite Phoenix (who are working with a local high school to have an Ignite!). It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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Awesome presentation at #IgnitePHX Stacy. I certainly hope to see more great things from you in Phoenix and ASUF!