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Students Learn Valuable Information from Area Business Owner

November 2021
December 2021
  • QCC students are able to participate in online live classroom presentations in certain courses..
    QCC students are able to participate in online live classroom presentations in certain courses.

Students in Professor Robbin Miller’s class, Death and Dying, participated in a civic engagement activity about funeral practices and rituals with Owner and Funeral Director Bryan Givner Sr., from Paradis-Givner Funeral Home in Oxford. The event was held on Nov. 2, in an online live class.

Mr. Givner spoke about different services and options such as traditional burials and cremation for loved ones who passed away. In addition, he let the students know that family members are offered a variety of resources such as information on social security benefits, funeral etiquette, and grief support.

Students learned that a funeral director is similar to a doctor on call. The funeral director is notified of a death any day of the year and must go pick up the deceased to bring back to the funeral home.

“I became interested in this work since my youth,” said Mr. Givner, when asked why he chose to become a funeral director.

Professor Miller’s students asked questions that ranged from, “Do you get depressed from doing your job?” to “Can you get COVID from the deceased’s body?”

Mr. Givner told the class that the chemicals the funeral uses to embalm the body can easily kill COVID; however, highly contagious diseases such as sepsis and pneumonia can infect the funeral hall staff and stronger chemicals are needed to make sure no one becomes ill.

“Students appreciated this engagement opportunity to enhance their learning of funeral practices and resources in their Death and Dying class from a local funeral home owner,” Ms. Miller said.

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