Tim Beeker is a lifelong learner, mild provocateur, deep, dark humoured, mild-mannered (most of the time), and always up for deeper conversation regarding psychology, philosophy, and religion. He's a public speaker, writer, photographer, and a voice-over wannabe.

*This episode has graphic content.*

In this episode, Maxwell and Tim discuss his role as a decedent remover, transporting dead bodies, MDD (major depressive disorder), hoarders, errors on decedent forms, picking up deceased individuals from the penitentiary, bringing people "home", homeless deaths, identifying personalities, shotgun suicides, having a morbid sense of humor, being an INTP, leaving suicide notes in the room, cleaning up brain matter, going through divorce, having the honor to help victims' grieve in the worst moment of their lives, having a fulfilling job, how this occupation cannot train anyone, on-the-job training, looking for blessings in life, finding hope, making sense of your life, spending all of your time being afraid, wasting precious time, not taking risks, drawing parallels between the rich and poor after a death, pursuing purpose in your life, power and status and wealth don't matter, religion, near death experiences, the afterlife, Jehovah's Witnesses, disowning your own children, focusing on now because now is real, logotherapy, Viktor Frankl, cleaning an individual for viewing, equating a suicide scene to a haunted house, selling life insurance, walking into an episode of CSI, suffocating in a bathtub, bodily fluids that come out after death, water blisters - edema, purging, skin discoloration, rigor mortis, death as an effect on the psyche, and Caitlin Doughty - "Ask a Mortician".

All production by Cody Maxwell.

Artwork by Cody Maxwell.

Opening graphic assets by UlyanaStudio.

Opening music by Cody Maxwell.

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