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Living with death in a small town

Skinner Funeral Home in Eaton Rapids, Michigan.
Rebecca Kruth
Skinner Funeral Home in Eaton Rapids, Michigan.

This story was produced by Rebecca Kruth.

Skinner Funeral Home in Eaton Rapids, Michigan.
Credit Rebecca Kruth
Skinner Funeral Home in Eaton Rapids, Michigan.

All this week on Stateside, in our series Living with Death, we're talking to people about how the process of death and dying has changed. Today: what's it really like to be a small-town mortician?

When Stateside's RebeccaKruthlost her father, her family turned to Larry Skinner, the Eaton Rapids funeral director who's been helping the community say its goodbyes for years. 

As part of our Living with Death series,Kruthtalked to Skinner about what it's like planning funerals in a town where everyone knows everyone.

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