Warning, this episode contains discussion of suicide.

First Maria's mom died when she was 7. Then when she was 12 her grandma whom she'd moved in with died. She never had a relationship with dad, and when she was 14, she moved in with her 23 year old sister. 

BUT. She's come a long way since and has stories to go with. Such as:

why she refers to her mom as mommy,

why she got free granola for having a dead mom,

the weirdest place she's cried,

and why doesn't miss her mom anymore.

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Part two of our conversation with Heather! She was 23 when her dad died suddenly from a stroke, and two days later she'd flown from London to New York for his funeral. In this episode we talk about:

how she struggled to figure out what to wear to her the funeral,

how her relationship with her incarcerated brother brings up memories of her father,

the weirdest reasons she's cried,

and how she looks to continue her dad's legacy.

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Heather was 23 and living in London when her dad suddenly died in New York. Two days later she was home in America for his funeral.

In this episode we talk with Heather about:

how at 10PM in London she learned her dad died by intimidating a hospital across the ocean in America,

her family's group funeral plots,

what dead bodies feel like,

and what she misses most about her dad.

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My mom died when I was 25. Seventeen months later my dad died. It was a mediocre couple of years,  but the good news is... I got a bunch of weird stories out of it!

In this episode I talk about my experience with my parents' deaths and make a bunch of dark jokes as I tell some of those weird stories.

Such as what it's like calling a funeral home at 5:30AM to have them come pick up your dead mom and thinking you're speaking to an answering machine,

or what you actually get when you get the 'base model' urn,

or why I cried more at my aunt's funeral than my own parents',

and why I'm pretty sure my mom manifests as leaves on trees.

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Plastic Urns is a show about death and dying and all the weird things that come with it. But we swear it's not depressing. Come hang out as we talk about talk the things we're supposed to think are taboo. Ideally in a fun way that's y'know, not super depressing.

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