Living for the Dead

StoryCorps

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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There are people who help us at every stage of life –– from the moment we're born to our last breath. But at the end, who's helping us when we're gone? On the season finale of the StoryCorps Podcast, twin mortician brothers look back on a life of caring for the dead.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dave Isae, founder of StoryCore.
0:02.8	This message comes from NPR sponsor Subaru, the largest corporate supporter of AdoptClashroom.org
0:08.4	by providing teachers with funding for supplies and resources.
0:11.9	Subaru, more than a car company.
0:13.9	All season, we've been hearing about pivotal moments in people's lives.
0:24.0	That one thing that changed everything.
0:27.5	For our last episode of the season, we'll meet twin brothers Marvin and Melvin Morgan.
0:33.2	They've really got two moments that set their course.
0:35.9	The first happened back in 1954.
0:38.4	On the day they were born.
0:40.4	Mama called daddy and told him to find two names because he had two twin sons on his
0:46.2	way to the hospital.
0:47.2	But he saw a marvel in Melvin if you don't know.
0:49.4	He said, I got the two names, I remember that.
0:53.8	The next one came 12 years later, while they were visiting a family in North Carolina.
0:58.9	So remember when they were going to live with great-grandmothers, great, you never forget
1:02.2	that.
1:03.2	We were walking past the cemetery, now cousin, he pointed out and said, she's over there
1:07.6	somewhere.
1:08.6	He's over there somewhere.
1:09.6	Down south, the African-Americans' cemetery, it's separate from the Caucasian cemeteries.
1:15.5	They were buried in on my graves.
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