Business Proposal: in the Death Care Industry
Aug 2, 2015 19:53:24 GMT -5
Post by reed on Aug 2, 2015 19:53:24 GMT -5
(Xela here.) Okay! OKAY! So... ;u; I'm not entirely sure how this works, but I would be really happy if you'd be willing to work with me to make something like this a possibility? For my girl, Reed. Thought it was worth a shot in any case.
Thank you for your time~
*tosses idea*
Thank you for your time~
*tosses idea*
Name of Business: Perish Cherish
Purpose of Business: Part of the death care industry. Reed's personal goal is to eventually have a monopoly over all of the funeral homes, crematories, and the very rare cemeteries of Novus. HOWEVER, currently that is but a distant dream. She owns a handful of establishments across the class districts. Perish Cherish handles proper funerals as well as helps clean up any violent "messes" after all the legal technicalities and investigation has been taken care of. They also prepare obituaries. Due to the cities' limited space and particular needs of course, Perish Cherish prioritizes using their space efficiently. The normal process is to cremate bodies, then return the identified remains to the family in funeral urns if requested. Reed is also a contact for somewhat impractical but more traditional merchants in the business, such as casket sellers. Should families make the request and pay the inconvenience fee, they may have their loved one placed in a coffin.
The cemeteries Reed oversees are in fact government owned, and to manage the amount of requests that come in, Reed has worked out a system where those able to pay the monthly fees for it may have their loved ones buried there. Usually only those willing to pay a lot for it have the luxury. If there are exceptions, they occur off the book and exceedingly rarely, mostly at Reed's discretion. Otherwise, be it cremated or full body, Perish Cherish offers temporary storage for the dead in warehouse style facilities. The government may ask Perish Cherish to hold particular remains for indefinite amounts of time. Citizens may pay for the facilities to store their loved one's remains for longer periods as well, however normally the dead will only be kept in storage for a 5-6 months before they are disposed of permanently and the small holding cell sanitized to make room for the new.
Fortunately or unfortunately, between the number of bodies rolling in, the minimal amount of space to deal with them sanitarily, and the citizen's sensitivity to how their loved ones deaths are handled, the business of dealing with dead bodies is surprisingly lucrative.
Location: Although Reed has several facilities, the Perish Cherish headquarters is in the Middle Class district. Her top cemetery, The Hope Garden, is in the Middle Class district divided from a popular local park by an metal wall and fence. One of her most popular funeral homes, Merits Point, is actually a larger building in the lower class district that doubles as a school house during daylight hours.
Layout Description: The thick steel walls are artificially sculpted to imitate brick such that it resemble a seemingly one-story castle of sorts. All of the entrances are gated. The windows vary from small (barely large enough to fit a simple hand through) - to tall and very narrow (even a child couldn't manage). The one large window Merits Point sports is a rose window sitting atop the dome at its center. A stylized iron grid serves as an appropriately thick physical security barrier to deter at least the most common vandals from smashing through it every other week. Directly beneath the dome is a broad, unassuming, circular fountain on the floor of what functions as the waiting room or lobby. The fountain is decorated with artificial plants along with the the rest of the room, to created something of an artificially run down temple chamber effect. Stone benches galore. Quiet. Peaceful. Slightly chilled.
The first floor is mainly composed of gathering spaces and offices. Beneath this lies three more basement levels containing body preparation rooms, Cremulators, other equipment, and very short term storage areas- where remains are kept until they can be transported to the proper warehouses. There are security access only elevators to get to and from the lower levels, save for the underwater staircase at the bottom of the fountain in the first floor lobby. That itself is said to be an emergency exit in case there is ever a particular crisis. Supposedly it hasn't been used in years.
* Her other buildings are also stone and/or metallic creations, more minimalistic and generic than the headquarters. Reed enforces a fairly uniform standard of quality for each installation regardless of where they may be distributed throughout the districts so that, although it may be more difficult to maintain in the Slums and Lower District, the buildings themselves are often in a much nicer condition than those in their surroundings. Everything must be clean.
Other:
*Business is also to be conducted the same way regardless of the location, neatly and professionally.
*Reed tries to hire locally for each district when possible, mainly to provide honest work opportunities for citizens in the slums and the lower class. Given the nature of the work however, it is not a popular occupation among the majority of the upper and middle class.
Purpose of Business: Part of the death care industry. Reed's personal goal is to eventually have a monopoly over all of the funeral homes, crematories, and the very rare cemeteries of Novus. HOWEVER, currently that is but a distant dream. She owns a handful of establishments across the class districts. Perish Cherish handles proper funerals as well as helps clean up any violent "messes" after all the legal technicalities and investigation has been taken care of. They also prepare obituaries. Due to the cities' limited space and particular needs of course, Perish Cherish prioritizes using their space efficiently. The normal process is to cremate bodies, then return the identified remains to the family in funeral urns if requested. Reed is also a contact for somewhat impractical but more traditional merchants in the business, such as casket sellers. Should families make the request and pay the inconvenience fee, they may have their loved one placed in a coffin.
The cemeteries Reed oversees are in fact government owned, and to manage the amount of requests that come in, Reed has worked out a system where those able to pay the monthly fees for it may have their loved ones buried there. Usually only those willing to pay a lot for it have the luxury. If there are exceptions, they occur off the book and exceedingly rarely, mostly at Reed's discretion. Otherwise, be it cremated or full body, Perish Cherish offers temporary storage for the dead in warehouse style facilities. The government may ask Perish Cherish to hold particular remains for indefinite amounts of time. Citizens may pay for the facilities to store their loved one's remains for longer periods as well, however normally the dead will only be kept in storage for a 5-6 months before they are disposed of permanently and the small holding cell sanitized to make room for the new.
Fortunately or unfortunately, between the number of bodies rolling in, the minimal amount of space to deal with them sanitarily, and the citizen's sensitivity to how their loved ones deaths are handled, the business of dealing with dead bodies is surprisingly lucrative.
Location: Although Reed has several facilities, the Perish Cherish headquarters is in the Middle Class district. Her top cemetery, The Hope Garden, is in the Middle Class district divided from a popular local park by an metal wall and fence. One of her most popular funeral homes, Merits Point, is actually a larger building in the lower class district that doubles as a school house during daylight hours.
Layout Description: The thick steel walls are artificially sculpted to imitate brick such that it resemble a seemingly one-story castle of sorts. All of the entrances are gated. The windows vary from small (barely large enough to fit a simple hand through) - to tall and very narrow (even a child couldn't manage). The one large window Merits Point sports is a rose window sitting atop the dome at its center. A stylized iron grid serves as an appropriately thick physical security barrier to deter at least the most common vandals from smashing through it every other week. Directly beneath the dome is a broad, unassuming, circular fountain on the floor of what functions as the waiting room or lobby. The fountain is decorated with artificial plants along with the the rest of the room, to created something of an artificially run down temple chamber effect. Stone benches galore. Quiet. Peaceful. Slightly chilled.
The first floor is mainly composed of gathering spaces and offices. Beneath this lies three more basement levels containing body preparation rooms, Cremulators, other equipment, and very short term storage areas- where remains are kept until they can be transported to the proper warehouses. There are security access only elevators to get to and from the lower levels, save for the underwater staircase at the bottom of the fountain in the first floor lobby. That itself is said to be an emergency exit in case there is ever a particular crisis. Supposedly it hasn't been used in years.
* Her other buildings are also stone and/or metallic creations, more minimalistic and generic than the headquarters. Reed enforces a fairly uniform standard of quality for each installation regardless of where they may be distributed throughout the districts so that, although it may be more difficult to maintain in the Slums and Lower District, the buildings themselves are often in a much nicer condition than those in their surroundings. Everything must be clean.
Other:
*Business is also to be conducted the same way regardless of the location, neatly and professionally.
*Reed tries to hire locally for each district when possible, mainly to provide honest work opportunities for citizens in the slums and the lower class. Given the nature of the work however, it is not a popular occupation among the majority of the upper and middle class.
