Red Cross questions

[marathoner452]

Please tell me why a funeral director needs to know CPR. Aren't most of their patrons...ummm...beyond that?

By the way, does anyone know if cheese floats? If so, it'd be useful in a disaster supplies kit for its entertainment value and you can eat pickles while you watch it float by.

(That's what I get for helping with a health and safety mass mailing and giving a rather wild flood safety presentation today.)

~Bethany

Comments

[roadwarrior220.livejournal.com]

Hee hee...maybe swiss cheese? :-P

I know how those out-of-control classes go--when I taught Sunday School back in college, a lot of the kids in my class had no interest in being there and/or just wanted to find a way to drive me insane and get attention from everybody else.

Funeral directors knowing CPR...now I've heard everything. :-)

[marathoner452.livejournal.com]

Or maybe shredded cheese. Heidi and Kristin were going to do a buoyancy problem (yes, they just started physics), but they didn't know the density of cheese. :P

~Bethany

[roadwarrior220.livejournal.com]

Now there's a problem with more than one answer. :-P

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

My guess is the funeral director has to be ready in case the stress and emotions become too much for anyone attending the viewings or funerals and someone has a heart attack or stroke. As I learned from watching "Six Feet Under", funerals are really more for the living than the dead.

[marathoner452.livejournal.com]

It just struck me as very odd at first, and in the time it took to fold and tape several hundred letters I had lots of time for the absurdity to sink in.

I know, I know, in the end it really does make sense. The vast majority of the people they work with might be in need of such services.

~Bethany

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Yeah...at first it does sound weird. But then again, the average funeral director probably sees a lot of people in somewhat frail physical condition.

[batemanenroute.livejournal.com]

I was struck by the number of people who, because of chronic knee or back problems, are completely unable to kneel for any length of time, still insist that they get certified in CPR. And for non-job-requirement reasons.

It's highly unlikely that someone requiring CPR will be laying on a table in your home.

(Floating cheese, now that's one I never heard)

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Maybe the assume that if they're placed in that situation, they'll rise to the occasion and kneel for as long as they can until someone else can come help too. For example, if I had kids, I would certainly want to know CPR...just in case.