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In Vendée, a 5,000 m² cemetery-school for training in funeral professions

2021-01-31T22:37:34.308Z


In La Roche-sur-Yon, the funetics school professionalises marble workers, gravediggers and masters of ceremony.


“It was a difficult case.

The death of a young girl in a car accident and the mother who was in the hospital.

The daddy, he had almost only me.

I have never felt so useful.

He even came by to thank me months after the funeral. ”

Coralie Bossard, 29, worked for seven years as a funeral counselor and has recently been a trainer.

“From my baccalaureate, I wanted this job, after the death of a friend.

For the human side, the relationship, but also a certain curiosity, ”

continues the young woman.

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Twenty-three thousand to 25,000 people work in the funeral industry in France for only half a dozen places of training.

Created twenty-one years ago, the La Roche-sur-Yon School of Funetics trains around 180 professionals per year, two-thirds of whom are women.

A range of increasingly qualified trades that require a diploma since 2013. The marble worker, who builds the grave, the gravedigger, who digs the hole, the funeral operator, who brings the coffin or the urn,

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Source: lefigaro

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