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As the Hearse Turns is a monthly Facebook Live show with Katharine Wagner-Elfner & Chris Boggs featuring real conversations about life, death, and death care — plus live Q&A sessions and special guests who keep it raw, honest, and real.

08/28/2026

⚠️ CONTENT NOTE: This video discusses infant loss and funeral care. Please watch only if you feel comfortable.

After our video about leaving a light on for a baby in our care, people started asking:

What actually happens when a baby or infant is embalmed?

It’s a difficult question, and one that deserves a thoughtful answer.

Infant embalming is different. The anatomy is different. The techniques can be different.

But the most important part is why we do it.

Sometimes that care gives a parent one more chance to see their baby, hold them, and create one final peaceful memory.

This video is about four minutes long.

Watch it to the end. The last minute is the reason this conversation matters.

If you value honest, respectful conversations about funeral service, follow As The Hearse Turns and be part of the conversation.

And if you have a respectful question about infant funeral care, leave it below.

Christopher Boggs - Mortician & Katharine K. Wagner-Elfner, Mortician

08/28/2026

Nothing says friendship like me getting back from vacation, returning to work and immediately watching my funeral director friend leave for their vacation.

Oh, you’re relaxing? Sleeping in? Enjoying cocktails? Must be nice (although I did that a few weeks ago myself 😂)

The passive aggression is purely out of love…and jealousy 😂

All jokes aside … take the vacation. Turn off the phone. Be with your people 💕

08/27/2026

There are some things in funeral service that nobody teaches you in mortuary school.

Nobody writes them in a policy manual.

Nobody checks behind you to make sure you did them.

You just do them because somewhere deep down, you know it’s the right thing to do.

When a baby is in my care, I cradle them when I move them. I swaddle them. I make sure they are handled gently.

And I leave the light on.

Not because they need it.

Because somebody trusted me with their baby.

And as a father, there are some things I simply cannot do any other way.

Some of the most important acts of care in funeral service are the ones a family may never see.

They may never know.

But we do.

And that matters.

This one is personal.

08/27/2026

Ever wonder where the blood, body fluids and embalming chemicals go during the embalming process? Today I’m taking you into the prep room to explain!

08/25/2026

I saw some guy walking up along the side of the building today and immediately thought, “Great, what is he trying to sell me?”

Turns out it was Chris 😉

Kudos to his daughter, Skylar, for the fresh haircut! She did such a wonderful job 👏

08/23/2026

Because apparently the product doesn’t work unless you tap on it first 😉

Beauty influencers, move over.

Welcome to Funeral Home ASMR.

08/23/2026

Vote on my story on my profile Christopher Boggs - Mortician and let me know! If we say yes embrace uncle Fester. We will make it happen this evening!

08/23/2026

One thing you learn very quickly in funeral service is that plans can change in an instant.

This weekend, my husband and I had plans to run errands. Then a family needed our help, and that required me to head into the office, pull some paperwork, and make a few phone calls.

This isn’t something unique to us, and it certainly isn’t shared for praise. It’s simply part of funeral service that people outside of the profession may not always see.

Families don’t necessarily need us during convenient business hours. Death doesn’t look at the calendar or consider what plans we may already have. Sometimes something can wait until Monday, and sometimes it simply can’t.

So we adapt. We pivot. We change the plan.

We’ll meet back up later this morning and finish our errands. But for right now, a family needs us, and they are the priority.

It’s one of the realities of choosing funeral service as a career: you have to understand that sometimes your day will go in a completely different direction than you planned, and you have to be willing to go with it.

08/22/2026

We get a lot of questions at the funeral home about the costs associated with funeral service. Yesterday, we got pretty transparent over on the Wagner-Elfner and Burg Funeral Home & Cremation Services page and talked about the cost of some of the equipment you’ll find in our prep room.

Today, we pulled our The S&S Coach Company hearse out of the garage and we’re taking you outside the funeral home for a closer look at this beautiful vehicle and sharing what a hearse like this actually costs. Because when we talk about the cost of funeral service, there are a lot of behind-the-scenes expenses most people never get to see.

‼️ Original content created and produced by As The Hearse Turns. Our original video footage and scripted content may not be copied, reproduced, or repurposed for use by other funeral homes or businesses without permission. We actively monitor for unauthorized use of our content.

08/21/2026

No recording session ever goes completely smoothly around here. And who knows… you might even almost lose an appendage in the process.

Chris’s fingers survived. Barely 😂

The full video (minus the blooper part) posts tomorrow at 9am EST.

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