TORONTO STAR – People are the true heart of MPG
When Pamela Bussoli told her high school teacher that she wanted to work in a funeral home for her co-op work credit, her teacher tried to talk her out of it.
But she was having none of it — she felt drawn to the profession, even as a 16-year-old growing up in an Italian-Argentinean household at Keele and Sheppard.
Now, as a funeral director at The Simple Alternative Funeral Centre in Mississauga, a part of the Mount Pleasant Group (MPG), she views her role as an essential community service. And something she is uniquely qualified to perform, which she does with well-earned empathy.
Bussoli chose to do her work co-op at a funeral home partly because two of her fellow students had been killed in traffic accidents. These incidents made her wonder, what happens next?
For her, such curiosity is not morbid. It’s natural.
“Why does death have to be something so bad, so mysterious? It’s a part of life,” says Bussoli, who joined MPG in 2014.
