The overall experience with my internship will provide me with some insight on working with postmortem patients. Since I want to work more with murder patients I will also need to look into the laws that go along with murder cases. This means that I will look at the causes of death in my patients and write a professional piece on their cause of death. My internship will help me decide whether or not performing autopsies would be a right career path for me based on if I am able to handle the different environment that working with postmortem patients provides.

My mentors will be Ryan and Kristal Phelps, the owners of Hood Mortuary. They will be able to thoroughly explain the workings of funeral directing and will even be able to give me insight on autopsies, my true area of passion. They have quite a lot of experience in their field, and even in the interview it was quite obvious that they would be able to provide a lot of information on everything pertaining to postmortem work.

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To learn more about Hood Mortuary, go to their website at www.hoodmortuary.com