The Last Stop

The bias that Cable essentially brought to the table through his analysis of a 21 century funeral home was seen in almost all his descriptions. One of the first which was mentioned would be the exterior of the funeral home. He weighed against his preconceived notions against what was actually apparent in this funeral home. What he expected was a almost unrealistic escape from reality that was different because of how perfect and peaceful the exterior was. However, the building was more ordinary than he had expected in that it was said that the building could easily be confused with an apartment building because of the brick which held it together and the location of the mortuary, in the middle of a business district in the city. Another bias that was brought into his description of this place was the what and how he believed an undertaker should look like. Because he had assumed the undertaker would look like a personification of Death himself, he automatically thought the undertaker to be cold and uncaring. However, upon further investigation he was proven wrong in that the undertaker actually truly cared about his work and was not as heartless as Cable's bias has originally portrayed him as being. I believe that this observation really shows a good depiction of funeral homes in general because it eliminates all the denotations that we regularly affix to funeral homes. It shows them as a way for us to past our relatives over into eternal rest and shows the employees as people who simple like to help make this rough depressing time as easy and smooth as possible for the family. This essay allows me to see a different side of what is just assumed some times, and shows how a perspective can easily be changed when someone takes the time to investigate a matter much deeper.