Since the wide-spread adoption of embalming in the United States, most Americans have turned the process of handling the deceased over to experts in the undertaking business. On this episode, the story of one family who decided that they wanted to be the ones to wash and prepare the body of the son and brother they'd lost.

This episode was previously aired on the podcast Neighbors, one of the podcasts in The Heard.

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Music:

Cylinder Five by Chris Zabrinskie

88 by Podington Bear