In his profession, Bill has reflected a lot about the fact that life is short and that you should live it to the fullest.
“Everybody thinks they’re invincible, even funeral directors,” he said. “We just never thought anything could happen to us, my wife and me. We never got to the point where we thought we would ever be facing death.”
That is, until the couple visited friends in the mountains of Arizona over Labor Day weekend, 1989. It was a life-changing experience, as they were coming home on the highway and were hit head-on, twice, after a woman traveled over the line into their lane, from the opposite direction.
"The next thing I knew, she's in my lane and I told Jenny to brace herself," said Bill.“ She hit us and spun us around in the road. We had multiple injuries—broken bones and bruises—and we still have ramifications. That accident changed our outlook on life and how quickly it could end. Neither of us were really the same after that, in terms of our outlook on life and how short life is.”
