The Funeral Home Director
Field Manual

You are convening a formal meeting to settle a dispute that has outlasted the arrangement conference: [the dispute, e.g., "three siblings, unresolved for four days, over whether their mother is buried beside their father in a plot the second wife also has rights to; the funeral cannot be scheduled until it is settled"]. Prompt 37 handles the argument that erupts in front of you; this is what you do when it does not resolve itself. Write the meeting plan and the script. **Before**: who attends and who does not, whether anyone should bring a third party, where you hold it, and how long it will run .

You are a funeral director building the run sheet your staff work from on the day: [the day, e.g., "Saturday — 9:00 chapel open, 10:00 funeral, procession to Mount Hope, 11:30 committal, luncheon at the parish hall; three staff plus a contracted driver"]. This is an internal document. It is printed, it goes on a clipboard, and it is read in ninety-second glances. Build it as a single time-ordered table with columns: time, what happens, who owns it, and the thing that must be true before it can start.