A man by the name of Joseph maguaja from kisii county has narrated how he works as a mortuary attendant, he has married twice but his marriage doesn’t last.
According to Joseph he started working in the mortuary when he was in form three he had a friend who was working as a mortuary attendant and when he visited him on Saturday and Sunday he could help him clean the bodies.
After completing his studies he started working on a construction site,he later lost his job and his friend asked him to apply for a job as a mortuary attendant.since he already had experience he went for an interview he passed and started working but he says it was not easy since he could sometimes dream and scream at night.
He decided to marry but he didn’t open up to his wife about the kind of job he was doing only and lied to her he was selling clothes in a boutique, and one day his wife was going to view the body of her friend and on that day he was on duty.
The wife could not believe it and she ran away screaming,when he came back home from work the wife told him he can’t be married to a mortuary attendant and she packed her belonging and left.
He married again and this time he decided to open up to his wife and she had no problem with it, one day he dreamt as his wife was talking to him and woke up his wife and asked her why she was talking to him and dead bodies don’t talk.
He says that the next day he woke up and went to work but when he came back his wife had carried everything. He says that he loves his job and he has decided to stay single but once he starts his own business he will marry one day.
By Nairobi