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This week Avery talks to a fifth generation funeral director about what's next for his business.

Welcome to On the Job.

On today's episode, we're headed to Western PA to speak with Brian Murphy,

who's a fifth generation small business owner.

And now with his kids nearing adulthood, the question is, will there

be a sixth? When you're a kid, if you're lucky, death is a distant thing, something you rarely

have to deal with. But for Brian Murphy,

being the son of a funeral home director meant that death was all around him.

Or more accurately, right in his backyard.

And we lived behind the funeral home.

So as far as growing up next to the funeral home,

I have very vivid memories of my dad going back and forth all the time dinners being interrupted it was it was

really hectic did the funeral home scare you as a kid or no I would say it never

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