Lonewolf

Everything Is Stories

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Death, life’s ultimate closure, often casts a long shadow over the funeral that follows. These ceremonies rarely spark protest or public outcry, but in the spring of 2013 Lonewolf Smith was thrust into a national dilemma when he and his colleagues at Graham, Putney, & Mahoney Funeral Parlors were asked to tend to the body of one of America’s most reviled terrorists. In this story we hear from former mortician Lonewolf on his dedication to his often-misunderstood work, a personal moral dilemma following his own experience with a horrific act of terrorism, and how he answers the question of who deserves a proper burial. --- Produced by Grace Heerman, Mike Martinez, and Tyler Wray. Sound Design by George Drake Jr. Music by Mike Etten. Intro/Outro music by Anand Wilder For more about this story, including photos by Robert Johansson, visit everythingisstories.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Hey everyone. This is Grace. the newest producer of everything is stories.
0:40.3	Just a quick message before we start.
0:43.3	We're excited to say that the story you're about to hear is the first in what will be our fourth season,
0:49.3	produced in partnership with oscilloscope laboratories.
0:53.3	These new stories are some of our most ambitious and complicated work to date.
0:59.5	Listeners who have been with us since the beginning know that we've always been committed to
1:03.7	producing longer, more thoughtful stories.
1:07.2	And in a world where content is constantly coming at us,
1:14.4	we really want to give the stories in this new season room to breathe.
1:20.6	With that said, we'll be releasing one episode a month for the remainder of this season.
1:24.7	So if you haven't already, subscribe to the show so you don't miss anything.
1:30.3	We're available wherever you get your podcasts. Take a listen, start anywhere. You may find a new definition of reality's highs and lows. The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them.
1:53.2	The way to understand these stories is to say they are about us.
1:57.8	No, no, no.
2:00.5	The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them. The way to understand these stories is to know they are about us. I'm not There were times that things get real bad.
2:27.3	There's no question.
2:29.3	We had the students and they came in on Sundays to do their clinicals.
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