In Recession Economy, Students Look To Funeral Careers
14/03/2009 18:38
If nothing is certain
but death and taxes, then funeral service may
be the closest thing
to a recession-proof
career in these uncertain
times.Nowhere is that more evident than mortuary science programs like the one at Nassau Community College, where interest and applications have mounted as the economy contracts.
At Nassau, which offers the only such public program in the metropolitan area, inquiries about mortuary science are up 15 percent in recent months, and enrollment for last fall's class was nearly double the year before.
At the American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Education, a private program in Manhattan, enrollment has jumped to 270 students for the spring semester, compared with 200 a year ago. The school attributes the rise to the economic downturn and the addition of an online program.
"They're looking for something stable, a career that will last them," said Michael Mastellone, chairman of the Nassau program. "And there will always be work out there."
Dead story here.
SINC SAYS:
That’s one thing about the funeral business, people are just dying to use there services.
