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When there is a dead body, the police are always involved. If the neighbors smell something, they are going to call the police. The call can come at any time, and I have to go to the scene, wherever it is. Like Scott, I make an estimate — how much time, how much money it will cost to clean the whole thing.

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And once it is done, I call in a couple of people if it is a big scene and we start working. There is always going to be death, but I would say spring. Most people are depressed around spring. January through March, people see less light. There are more suicides. During winter, if a room is cold, you might not smell a job right away. As for crime, crime happens in every season. Yeah, our normal busy time is April through June.

And then August through October, those are our busier months. But last year, I was busy every week of the year. And every other day it has been hustle, hustle, hustle. Is there a standard way you approach a crime scene? Does the cleaning need to be done in a specific sequence, say for a murder? It depends on how the person was killed. Knowing what happened helps me. Finding little splotches of blood or pieces of brain matter helps me do a better job. I think it is important to take some time to understand the scene and what happened.

I like to ask questions if the cops are there, in order to do a better job.

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Sometimes family members directly call us. For crimes it is a bit different. There's much more police involved. If someone dies and gets found one month or two months later, it's basically because there are not a lot of people in their lives that were looking for them. Most of the time, people that do my job ended up doing this job because someone in their family died and they called a bunch of places to clean up and nobody would do it — so they ended up doing it themselves.

It is not dealing with family members; it is dealing with loneliness. If that person is 70 or 80, you can see them when they were 30 or 40 when they had a life and family and friends. I think that is the hardest part — aside from cleaning up scenes with kids. That is why we've tried to stay a family business for this long. We communicate within our group. We have inside jokes. They aren't related to the job, but it gets us through that job from an emotional standpoint.

I can't do kids. Anything legit, I will do. It is my job. If I don't do it, someone else will. I have a lot of bills to pay and a company to run. I am a bit obsessive-compulsive, so having a really messy scene and getting rid of everything in a couple of hours, I think that it is satisfying.

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Also, we help people. When your family member commits suicide, the last thing you want to do is clean up their mess. I think we help families get through hard times in a very respectable and professional manner. Anyone who smells a dead body never forgets it. When you have blood and guts, it is in the air. Beyond what you can visually see, most of the time the hardest thing to get rid of is the smell.

We have a big machine that literally kills everything in a room. So, we put this in a room and it kills all of the germs everywhere. I don't think it would be respectful for the family — but obviously a frozen dead girl surrounded by shrimp in a freezer is something weird that I don't get to see often. Hanging out with my kids and making dinner with my wife Having a good sex life can help. It can be a great distraction. I'm in a family business, so that makes it even harder. Is there internal fighting within families? Does it bother my wife that I have to go out at two or three in the morning?

People who try and help others always have to sacrifice something. Have I a missed dinner? Have I missed time at home with my one-year-old?

Absolutely, but I want my family to be proud of me. I want everyone in my personal life to be proud of me. I think that it is harder than if you had a regular job. You are working weird hours.

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