Female Funeral Directors

When you choose your funeral home, your final arrangements, who you choose and what you choose is very personal.  These days most funeral directors are male, and the average age is about 60.  There is a smaller and younger demographic developing of female funeral directors.  They tend to talk to and know one another as their numbers are small.   Many people that I have talked to feel that most of the male funeral directors they have dealt with are arrogant, expensive and that they really have little empathy for the survivors.  Maybe we perceive this when we are grieving.  Maybe having a know-it-all male funeral director helps us get through a funeral.?  To paraphrase a pithy phrase a lot of people think that if women ran the world that the world would be a better place, now and in the past.  So there is some thinking that female funeral directors would be and are more caring and understanding.