Would you work with, near or around dead people?

Ewan Mcgregor was in a movie called “Nightwatch” where he worked as the night duty security guard of a morgue. “Nightlife”, an 80’s zombie movie had Scott Grimes as a teenager working for his uncle in a mortuary as his assistant. Both movies scared the heck out of me.

Yet there were some good movies which portrayed working with the dead rather in dramatic and warmly sentimental terms. Ally Sheedy in “Only The Lonely” played a symphatetic make-up artist for the deceased and Dan Akroyd was a benevolent mortician in “My Girl”.

I’ve never had a conversation with any real life mortician or anybody who worked around dead people so I used these movies as references. So why do some people cringe at the thought of working in a morgue or mortuary while others do not? And which of the two groups do you belong?