"The Last Stop"

Walking into a funeral home is something that no one wants to do often. It means you are facing death. Funeral homes and mortuaries are generally thought of a nice, manicured places set aside for others to pay respect to the dead, but it also has a somber and sour atmosphere. But in "The Last Stop," Cable visits a mortuary and he is presented a normal view of the steps that come after death. Before touring the funeral home, Cable thought of it as a reverent and formal setting for loved ones to gather and celebrate the life of a lost friend. After touring the funeral home, Cable sees death as something thats normal and sees a funeral home as a normal business. From the fact that the funeral home accepts credit cards to how the funeral director organizes his desk, the mortuary seems just like any other business. Cable illustrates Goodbody Mortuaries as a place that is more than familiar with death and is revolved around the money they're paid, instead of the comfort they provide the families. Cable originally thought that funeral homes existed as a place for people to pay respects to the dead, but now he sees that there is a business to it. He even compares the job of the funeral director to the job of someone working for Dow Jones. Cable illustrates that a funeral home is nothing more than just the "last stop" for a dead person.