I always love it when I come across a new turn of phrase that makes much sense, unlike most corporatese these days, that just string some fancy words and phrases for adequately perfect existing descriptions.
‘Last Responders’ - now that’s a new and descriptive modern reference to the people necessary to our lives but always in the background. They are under-appreciated because their work reflects repugnant feelings in us, buy hey, they are as necessary to the customs of our society as vultures (truly sorry for that comparison) would be to rotting carrion in the savannah. I have met a couple of them in funeral homes during visitations and on request they were kind enough to take me to their ‘workshop’, usually in the basement of the Funeral Parlours in which they worked. I was amazed at the neatness, the order and the hygiene they maintained at their spacious workplaces. All of them have undergone a mortuary science program at community colleges and have obtained their licences to operate the dressing up, the cosmetology, the body chemistry and the disposal methods that are essential to their work. In addition, after those duties are over and the mourners straggle in, they maintain a discreet presence dressed in black suits, ready if an accident occurs due to excessive grief or pushing the coffin off its stand, posing a risk to the body inside. It may well be in these Covid times that out Last Responders fulfill as important a task as our First. Opinion | Canada’s last responders very much on the front lines | Toronto.com https://www.toronto.com/opinion-story/10348071-canada-s-last-responders-very-much-on-the-front-lines/ Roland. Toronto.
