# Kari Northey interview conducted by Joél Maldonado, 2024-06-02

Kari Northey is a funeral director, embalmer, and a mom to two little girls. She has been in the funeral service industry for 30 years and licensed for 22 years. In this interview, Northey shares her COVID-19 experience as a freelance License Funeral Director/Licensed Embalmer at a Kalamazoo, Michigan-based funeral home. She speaks about her relationships with clients pre- and post-COVID, how "saying no" was the norm when funeral professionals strive to be "yes people," and the potential challenges of embalming when the decedent is known to have had COVID-19.

- Kind: Interview
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 58 min
- By: Northey, Kari
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024655322/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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