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Chuck initiates boxing therapy for the employees; John faces the delicate situation of arranging for a child's burial.
(Season 1, Episode 6)
(Season 1, Episode 6)
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00:00Come on, put your ass in wood.
00:10I want everybody to jab them.
00:12Get them up there.
00:13Your name ain't Ali.
00:15This gets a lot of my steam-offs.
00:19Good.
00:20What I want to do is get a heavy bag and take it into the mortuary hanging from that big bean.
00:25And then I'll teach everybody how to punch the damn thing.
00:27Instead of just raging and running your mouth, come out here and beat up on that damn bag.
00:33That's one way to do it.
00:34Yes, sir.
00:57We're gonna hang up a bag.
00:58Come on.
00:59Grab it in there, he-man.
01:00No, no, no, no.
01:01Come on.
01:02We're gonna paint Rick's face on the century sign.
01:04Let's go.
01:05That's all you are is a muscle.
01:06Me and Chuck kind of got together as soon as I got here.
01:07It's like my first day.
01:08Me and him kind of bonded together.
01:09You throw a chain up and around the beam and hang it from there.
01:12You know what?
01:13That's not a bad idea if we've got a chain.
01:14Chuck's like my dad.
01:15He's my best friend.
01:16He's very comical.
01:17Very forgetful.
01:18Took too many shots to the head when he was boxing.
01:20Man, what kind of a slob are you?
01:21You know, I love him like a brother, but he's the sloppiest son of a bitch I've ever met.
01:24Why don't you take and put that s*** in the house?
01:26Or I mean in the office there?
01:27Let her drop John boy.
01:39Good man, John.
01:41Once I teach these guys how to crack this thing, I'll even get David out here.
01:44Morning, guys.
01:45You might have Vada film with it.
01:46No, I don't care what these guys are doing.
01:48I don't care what they're doing.
01:49I don't care what these guys are doing.
01:50How do you even get David out of here?
01:52Morning, guys.
01:53You might have Vodafone with it.
01:54No, I don't care what those guys are doing.
01:57I'll talk him into it.
01:58Why couldn't we drill a hole in a beam and screw this in there?
02:01So drill a hole in there and it starts screwing.
02:04Let me drill you.
02:05I'll drill you.
02:09Ordinarily I'd say, what the hell are you doing?
02:11But I figured it out.
02:12Chuck asked me about it probably close to a year ago.
02:15This way we get to take out all of our frustrations
02:17on the heavy bag instead of each other.
02:19Here, pinch that together however you want it.
02:21Chuck and John have been good for each other, actually.
02:24Chuck's kind of a father figure for John and vice versa.
02:27Whoa!
02:28Let me try it.
02:29You never really know what you're going to walk into here, ever.
02:34Are you getting ready to do it in yourself?
02:36Not a bad idea.
02:38We got it.
02:39It's a lot like watching a snake.
02:41You can't really look at it, but you can't look away either.
02:44Okay, drop it.
02:45If there would be one more, there would be the Three Stooges.
02:48There.
02:51I'll say one thing.
02:52You got perfect form.
02:53Bam!
02:54Bam!
02:55I got bodies to grab.
02:57Yeah.
03:00Everybody knows me as the morbid one.
03:04You know, at the mortuary, there's not much, you know, that I can't handle.
03:09John's seen it all.
03:10You know, exes, car exes and stuff.
03:11You have to have a coat of armor there.
03:12I worked for the company that does transportation.
03:13You show up on the homicide scenes, the accident scenes, the suicides, the unexplained deaths.
03:22If it's a homicide, you bag up their hands, bag up their head, you know, put them in paper bag.
03:28You know what homicide scenes are.
03:31He's a good embalmer.
03:33He did something the other day and I thought, that's cool, I'm going to start doing that.
03:37John's taught me a tremendous amount.
03:39John is a really nice guy, but he's a sad sack.
03:43His clothes always look like an unmade bed.
03:46His car is filthy.
03:48My interest is forensics.
03:50My final stop in this business will be something to do with forensics.
03:53But right now, my challenge is I've got a family and I make just enough to live out here in San Diego,
03:59let alone, you know, take off for school eight hours a day with no income.
04:02You know, so that's my situation.
04:04What do you want relief from Shauna Beth?
04:09This place.
04:11Primarily.
04:12Driving here in this place.
04:14Shauna needs stress relief from just life and atta girl.
04:17Come on, bring it back.
04:18Hi.
04:19Hi.
04:20Hi.
04:21Hi.
04:22We're all girls, but Chuck raised us like boys.
04:25You know, we all like to be feminine and pretty, but there's a side of us that's totally Chuck written all over it.
04:31Turn around and show me it like this.
04:33Oh.
04:34All right.
04:35That's it.
04:36Oh, I am.
04:39Are you okay?
04:40It's funny.
04:41All right, come on.
04:42I am coming already.
04:43This year.
04:44Okay, now just reach out and tap it.
04:47That a girl.
04:48Nice right hand.
04:49That's great.
04:50Now that's it.
04:51That's your first lesson.
04:52That's natural Weissmiller ability.
04:54This is a perfect stress release.
04:57I'm thinking about everybody that's pissed me off in the last five years.
05:02Mr. Rene, line one.
05:03Hi, this is John.
05:04How may I help you?
05:05Okay.
05:06Sure.
05:07I'm sorry to hear that, sir.
05:08It's a baby that's being born with a severe bone disease and the doctor told them she's not going
05:12to live past minutes after birth, so they want to come in and do everything ahead of time so they don't have to come in after the death occurs and be traumatized.
05:19Okay, sir.
05:20It's a really fine balance with all the funeral rangers here to see families that have lost babies.
05:24You're welcome.
05:25I think I'd rather handle the child.
05:26I kind of feel more comfortable handling children than anybody else here.
05:27I don't think it was always a man for the child's from a man who is coming to a man who is the man who is trying to become a female therapist.
05:33How may he do that?
05:34It's a very good thing.
05:35Why am I?
05:36Oh, thank you.
05:37It's a very good idea.
05:38And the doctor told them she's not going to live past minutes after birth, so they want to come in and do everything ahead of time so they don't have to come in after the death occurs and be traumatized.
05:40Oh, okay, sir.
05:41It's a really fine balance with all of the funeral rangers here to see families that have lost babies.
05:46You're welcome.
05:48I think I'd rather handle the child.
05:50I kind of feel more comfortable handling children than anybody else here.
05:54I don't think it was always meant for John to be the one to always take families with babies,
05:59but somehow it just worked out that way, and now he prefers to take them
06:03just because, you know, he lost a child years ago.
06:10It's taken him a long time to be able to talk about it,
06:13and he actually hasn't even really talked to me about it.
06:15So I think he would probably be the best one to tell you.
06:19Yeah, I'd rather not. I'd rather not.
06:22It was an accident.
06:25I don't know details of it because I figure if John wanted to tell me, he would tell me.
06:31So I've really never had that conversation with him.
06:34You know, sometimes he complains because, you know, it's very heart-wrenching for him,
06:41but then, you know, when we say, hey, we'll give it to David, we'll give it to Shauna,
06:44and he's like, no, no, I want to take it.
06:46The reason I'd rather meet with the families with children is because I feel what they're feeling,
06:51so I can be, I don't want to sound egotistical,
06:54but probably a little bit more compassionate than anybody else here who hasn't.
07:02You know, John, we kind of push him in the door whenever there's families that have lost babies,
07:07and it takes its toll on him.
07:11You can just come into the first arrangement office here.
07:14Have you decided on whether there's going to be a burial or a burial?
07:17Yeah, we want a burial.
07:19Okay.
07:21When the baby's born, will she actually be breathing for a few minutes,
07:25or is she going to be stillborn?
07:27We think she'll be breathing for a few minutes.
07:30Okay.
07:31It's, uh, her condition is such that there's no guarantee,
07:34but it's almost certain she won't survive much more than 15, 20 minutes.
07:40What is her name?
07:43Sarah will be the first name.
07:45Okay.
07:45Even though I think it is painful for John,
07:51maybe in a strange way he can see what good has come of this,
07:57and the good is that John's able to lend support to this family
08:00in a way that none of us can,
08:02because John has walked in their shoes.
08:06Marty, this is the other one that I was looking for.
08:09Family tree.
08:10Yeah, that's the one I chose for my son.
08:12I could look through it as if it was a birth book,
08:14and I didn't have to look at the negative aspect of it being for his death.
08:20He's doing very, very well.
08:22Very, very well.
08:25Usually I'd have broken down with him by now,
08:26but hopefully that's not the case.
08:32This is imminent.
08:33It's going to happen in the next couple days.
08:36Oh, this was the one that you had up on the board?
08:39Yeah, the one here.
08:39Okay.
08:40The baby.
08:43Sorry we had to meet under these conditions.
08:44I wish we could have met somewhere different.
08:47Glad there's people like you that are there to help us.
08:51Thank you very much.
08:52Thank you very much.
08:52Okay.
08:52It's not going to affect him now,
08:56but when the death actually occurs,
08:58no matter how prepared you think you are,
09:00you're not as prepared as you think.
09:02That's it.
09:07That a girl.
09:08All right.
09:10Beautiful.
09:11Okay.
09:12Now.
09:13Stay sideways.
09:13Yeah.
09:15That's it.
09:16Pretty good.
09:18Okay.
09:18Now, just jab.
09:19It's tempting, Dad.
09:20Just jab.
09:21I'll throw the right hand after the jab.
09:24That's it.
09:24Good.
09:25All right.
09:26Good.
09:27Skinny legs and all, man.
09:28She can punch.
09:29She's tough.
09:31Beautiful.
09:32I'm.
09:33I was taking them to the gym when they were little,
09:35you know, with me.
09:36I hit the bags,
09:37and then I put the gloves on them.
09:38They'd be slugging each other.
09:39It was fun.
09:41Shawna's pretty tough,
09:41but I think
09:43I probably hit a little bit harder.
09:47I got kicked out of school
09:48when I was in ninth grade for fighting.
09:50Beautiful.
09:51Feel it?
09:51Yeah.
09:51Did you feel it that time?
09:52Oh, yeah.
09:53This girl got in my crap,
09:54so I just started wailing on her.
09:55I think I actually really almost broke her nose.
09:59Emily needs to hit the bag
10:00because she has a lot of frustration
10:02over several things.
10:05There's no room for error,
10:06and, you know, if you do make error,
10:08then it can, you know,
10:09cause a lot of grief for people.
10:10It's just the stress
10:13of having to get this done under pressure.
10:17Sometimes I find myself at my typewriter,
10:19and I'm like this.
10:20I mean, I really, I can feel my face,
10:21and I'm like, whoa!
10:23So I need, I should start coming out here.
10:26You know, even if it means I get sweaty and yucky,
10:29you know, just for 15 minutes to unwind.
10:37That's hard.
10:39I gotta get back to work,
10:40but I feel really good now.
10:42Try to go wash my feet.
10:52Who wants to come by today?
10:55Has the death occurred?
10:56Pick out, this is, yeah.
10:57The baby was born.
10:58Oh, that's the family.
11:00Oh, he said he went,
11:00all he said is,
11:01I want to come by,
11:02pick out some flowers,
11:03and just finalize a few things.
11:05Okay, the death must occur.
11:07The Bramwell family,
11:08I think the death has actually occurred now.
11:13John, because he went through the death of his own child,
11:16he, um, he, he's more sensitive to the death of a child.
11:21My son passed away in 1997,
11:24which was two weeks before I came into this business.
11:27You know, for me?
11:28One year's old happened four days after his first birthday.
11:33I had a major influence on what I chose for a career.
11:38It does get to him.
11:40I ask him if he's okay and stuff,
11:41and most of the time he is,
11:43but, you know, sometimes he's a little screwed up.
11:45What's going on, bro?
11:47I'm sure I can get a baby next.
11:49Oh, this is when I was supposed to die minutes after birth.
11:52This is, like,
11:52I was born in the morning,
11:54lived to the evening.
12:00I was trying to prepare myself.
12:04It's going to be emotional.
12:06Even if this guy doesn't break down,
12:07there's a chance that I may.
12:09And what can you say to console somebody?
12:11There's nothing he can really say.
12:16Make yourselves comfortable,
12:18and I will let him know that you're here.
12:20Okay.
12:20Okay?
12:20The family is extremely,
12:23um,
12:24I mean, they're extremely,
12:26I mean, like, they're really prepared for it.
12:28They're just taking it just like saints.
12:30We had a real, uh, tender time
12:33yesterday with the baby,
12:36and, uh,
12:37she was alive for about 30 minutes,
12:40so we all got,
12:41all the family was there,
12:43all the children,
12:45and we were able to hold her
12:47and, you know, be with her.
12:50Okay, so the, uh,
12:53the reason I brought these lovelies with me
12:56is to maybe look at some flower arrangements,
12:59if we could do that.
13:00Oh, of course, of course.
13:00I know that my mom wanted more white.
13:02She likes, she likes white,
13:04and I was thinking even, like,
13:05some really light pink would be cute.
13:07I mean, I don't know if John
13:10has made his peace
13:12as far as with his own child.
13:15God bless you, Marty.
13:16You too.
13:17It tears him up
13:17because he thinks about it.
13:19A lot stronger than I am.
13:21And when he does an arrangement
13:23with a family who just lost the child,
13:25it comes back, you know,
13:27it comes back to haunt him.
13:28I've lost a son.
13:31I've lost a brother.
13:32I've lost, uh, you know, both parents.
13:36It's part of life.
13:38It's something that everybody has to go through.
13:39It's just whether you're ready
13:40to accept it or not.
13:46Johnny, come here.
13:49Roll your hand over it.
13:50Open it up.
13:51Relax it.
13:53Okay?
13:53I'll show you how to do this one time.
13:55Open and relax.
13:57Relax?
13:58That's not in my vocabulary.
14:00John, uh,
14:01he's got a lot of stuff, man.
14:02Carrying a lot of baggage.
14:04Right hand,
14:04you turn your elbow.
14:06If you don't relax,
14:07I'm gonna shoot you.
14:08Easy now, relax.
14:11Atta boy.
14:12I give him credit, though.
14:13He's strong enough
14:14to be able to keep him professional
14:15and hang in there.
14:17Now, jab on the bag.
14:19And I just try to ease the pain
14:21the best I can.
14:23There.
14:23You feel a little bit better?
14:25Okay, good.
14:25Do a little bit more.
14:28There you go, Johnny.
14:29Perfect.
14:36It looks like we have
14:38two services this morning.
14:40John has a baby service at 11.
14:44And, uh,
14:45I'm a little concerned about him
14:46because John has been
14:48in that situation himself.
14:50You know, his child's death.
14:52I think it really affected him
14:54and brought back some memories.
14:56The, uh,
14:57father called me this morning
14:58and requested us
14:59to get a lock of her hair, so...
15:02I got a couple locks
15:03of my son's hair.
15:05And what I do with it
15:07is I'll pull it out
15:09once in a while
15:09and smell.
15:10I'll take a few moments
15:13to myself
15:13just to think.
15:21John,
15:22we're in the process
15:23of getting a permit.
15:24We will have it,
15:27but it's gonna be real close
15:29to the time of the service.
15:31I'm waiting for my permit
15:33for my child here.
15:35I can't bury without it.
15:37And what's on her way in?
15:38What's wrong with this?
15:39Uh, wrong date of death.
15:41So she said
15:41she's gonna fix that.
15:43She's on her way in?
15:44My God,
15:44this kid's gonna be buried real soon.
15:46There's concern
15:46if I'm gonna have the permit
15:47for the Bramwell family.
15:48I've got two hours to get it.
15:50We're not gonna talk
15:50about what will happen
15:51unless it actually happens
15:53because you cannot bury.
15:55Legally, it won't happen.
15:57What's going on
15:58with Bramwell's?
15:59They said the health
16:00they didn't receive it,
16:01so I re-faxed it.
16:02I told him to write what?
16:03We have a fax
16:04stating what they did.
16:05They just said they just...
16:06No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
16:07The wrong date of death
16:08is typed in.
16:09It had a misprint on me.
16:11We had to re-fax it.
16:17Give me a minute, please.
16:21Emily, the wrong year of death
16:23is 2003, but it's 2004.
16:26And I'm actually gonna type
16:28this permit for her
16:30just to expedite things.
16:33I typed a new permit.
16:34When are you gonna be here?
16:35Okay, so I'll see you in a few.
16:38Okay, she'll be here
16:39in five minutes.
16:41Let's see, I'm getting
16:41stressed out because
16:42I gotta be there at 10.30 preset
16:44and I don't have a permit.
16:46But you will?
16:48No, Bramwell.
16:49B-R-A-M.
16:50Right now I'm calling
16:51the health department
16:52to find out
16:53if there's anything
16:53they can do
16:54to expedite a permit.
16:55Urgent, urgent, urgent, urgent.
16:58Urgent.
16:59Someone else have to give that.
17:00Everybody's stuck their nose in it,
17:03so you need to see
17:04what's going on.
17:05What's all this mess?
17:06I don't, Sean and John
17:07are going through that.
17:08Sarah Bramwell,
17:09that's what I mean.
17:10The guys faxed you the wrong DC,
17:12so I have the right DC.
17:14Hopefully they'll give me
17:15an answer in 15 minutes,
17:16the health department will.
17:17If they don't,
17:18I will have to fax the permit
17:20immediately to Dearborn Cemetery,
17:21and then I will have to
17:22physically have someone
17:23run down there
17:24and give it to them.
17:25So here's the permit now,
17:26I hope.
17:29Please say yes.
17:31I got the permit.
17:34Here you go.
17:37Thank you, dear.
17:39I just made everybody
17:41lose two years of their life
17:42because they stressed.
17:46Obviously I'm afraid
17:47of breaking down
17:47on the service,
17:49baby being placed
17:50into the ground.
17:50It's the reality
17:52that they're never going
17:52to see the child again.
17:54You know, people look at you
17:55as a stanchion of strength,
17:57so it's hard to be
17:58that stanchion of strength
17:59for them when you're
18:00falling on your own.
18:04John's responsibility
18:06right now
18:06is a great responsibility
18:08because he has to make sure
18:10that the service
18:11and the interment
18:12go according to plan.
18:15And also John has to deal
18:17with the emotional aspect
18:19of the entire ceremony.
18:22John's got to be stronger
18:24than the family.
18:28Sarah Jacqueline Bramwell
18:30was born on January 15th
18:33at 530.
18:35And it was a normal delivery
18:38and the nurses were quick
18:40to get her right back
18:42in the arms of her mother.
18:46Parents are strong,
18:47stronger than I am.
18:48I wouldn't be able
18:49to sit up there
18:50and speak about it.
18:54And so Sarah
18:55has returned.
18:58In the name of Jesus Christ,
19:00amen.
19:05These people have a
19:06step up on me.
19:09They're religious
19:10with faith and hope.
19:11Well, it's not that
19:14I don't believe.
19:15It's that, you know,
19:16I have a hard time
19:17accepting the fact
19:18that, you know,
19:19since, you know,
19:20God took my son
19:21and everything
19:21that God punishes people
19:24in that way.
19:28This doesn't make sense.
19:30Take your time.
19:46Johnny will be okay.
19:48I've tried to explain
19:49to him that, hey,
19:50I was probably
19:51just like him.
19:53I mean,
19:53I can remember
19:55being that age
19:56and saying,
19:57you know,
19:57there is no God
19:59because if there is,
20:01kill me now.
20:02Get me out of here now.
20:03I don't care how you do it.
20:04You're off balance,
20:05Johnny.
20:05Don't push it.
20:07Just throw it like
20:07you throw the jack.
20:08Sharp.
20:09I think older you get,
20:11I don't know if it's wiser
20:12or just wind up
20:14having more faith
20:15or hope,
20:16you know,
20:17and I've tried
20:18to explain it to him.
20:19I don't think
20:20he quite gets it.
20:20Maybe he doesn't.
20:22He just keeps
20:23fighting it,
20:23you know.
20:24He's good, man.
20:26Thanks.
20:27And those are yours,
20:28by the way.
20:29Oh, okay.
20:31Yeah.
20:32I'm going to put
20:32these on my desk.
20:33All right.
20:37Come on, baby.
20:38Come on.
20:45I miss my child.
20:47He was never supposed
20:47to be taken from me.
20:48He was my firstborn.
20:50You know,
20:50he could have took me.
20:52You know,
20:53he could have took
20:54somebody that was older.
20:55He could have took,
20:55you know,
20:56anybody,
20:56but why,
20:57why a child?
21:15You know I already
21:15know how to do this.
21:16Oh, well, go ahead.
21:18I have high heel signs.
21:19I know,
21:19and that was real smart,
21:20wasn't it?
21:21High,
21:22and in here.
21:23Well, I'm a girl.
21:24Of course I'm going to go
21:24with you.
21:26See what I mean?
21:26You have to say,
21:28left hand jab,
21:29right hand punch.
21:30Oh, my nose is broke.
21:52I'm going to go to.
21:59You're going to go to her.
22:01I'm looking my way through a bitch.
22:02There he is.
22:02I'm going to go to her side.
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