In Florida, funeral home workers struggle to keep up with the dying

Richard Prindiville, director of Highland Funeral Home in Apopka, Florida, is used to working long days in what is a notoriously grueling profession. But nothing in his more than two decades in the business has prepared him for the torrent of death caused by the latest COVID-19 wave in the state.

"There's been days I've come home and I'm exhausted and I'm talking to my daughter and I'm falling asleep as I'm talking to her," he told CBS MoneyWatch. "Every day is funerals and funerals and funerals."  Prindiville, 48, routinely works 14-hour days booking funerals, meeting with grieving families, transporting bodies and overseeing services, not to mention managing his staff and handling the myriad other duties small businesses must perform. And with hundreds of Floridians succumbing to the disease, the task of disposing the dead with dignity falls upon pallbearers, morticians and other so-called last responders like Prindiville.