Browsing the Methuselah Mouse Prize’s website, I came across a member of the Three Hundred, David Thompson, that works with the dead daily. Here’s what he had to say:



I am a funeral director by trade and have seen more than my share of death. It is never pretty, and some of the things I have seen are terrifying. If you have ever thought about how peaceful someone looked in a casket, let me let you in on a little secret, they didn’t look that way before we embalmed them. I have yet to pick someone up from the morgue that looked glad to be there.

The day will come for most of us when death approaches and we will go through a list of things we wish we had done. If only I had started my diet earlier, why didn’t I keep my new years resolution to exercise? Don’t let wishing you had donated to the Methuselah Mouse Prize be one of the last things that goes through your mind.

Before you know it one of my friends or I will be coming for you, put us out of work before we do.

Chilling.