While today’s fashion shoot showcases our pal Brandy McDonald’s ability to transform lively, living live models into several-days-old cadavers via the power of makeup, it got us thinking about the men and women who do the reverse for a living. Morticians.

Toronto’s Humber College is the only school in Ontario that offers a full Funeral Service Education course in English, so we figured it was the best place to find out about the funeral-director scene. That’s what they like to be called, BTW. Not “undertaker” or “mortician.” Oh, crap. Sorry.

Read the interview on viceland.