Dan Popoff

Dan is a licensed practicing funeral director in North Carolina and adjunct instructor of English at South Piedmont Community College. He holds an MFA In Writing with a focus In Creative Nonfiction from Lindenwood University and also holds a Masters of Science Degree in Psychology with an emphasis on death and dying. Dan lives and writes from his home in Lancaster, South Carolina.

A Celebration of Life

The only thing my mind can focus on standing out here at this cemetery in the middle of July in Charlotte, North Carolina, is that it is flipping hot. It has to be a hundred degrees. A myth I always hear—funeral directors get used to the heat—false.