After her WNBA career his drawn to a close, the Minnesota Lynx’s Sylvia Fowles says she wants to be an embalmer after in her post-basketball life.
As told in an article on SB Nation, Fowles mentioned the idea of her wanting to work with the deceased and making sure their bodies are preserved in the correct way came about after grandmother passed away in her 50s to lung cancer.
My older siblings and cousins thought it was a good idea to give her a last kiss. As we gave her a last kiss, we were on our way to the burial and my lips itched the whole way there. I always felt like they did something wrong, so I told my mom that this was something I wanted to do. I want to work with dead people and make sure they do it right.
–Sylvia Fowles
In addition to her already busy schedule that includes her WNBA play, she is taking online classes to obtain a degree in mortuary science from New York’s American Academy McAllister Institute.
(Original story: SB Nation)
By: Akiem Bailum (@AkiemBailum on Twitter, Instagram)
