the ash flash

the ash flash

A profession that got talked into sounding like nobody

They sound like every other funeral home, which is the actual crime, because the whole business is built on being trusted enough that a stranger hands you their dead.

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John Ashworth
Aug 09, 2026
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The email arrived from a funeral home in the Midwest, forwarded to me by the owner with no note attached, just the subject line: "thoughts?" It was a quarterly newsletter, the kind that goes out to e…

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