{"id":3135,"date":"2021-08-16T08:37:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T12:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=3135"},"modified":"2021-08-16T08:37:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T12:37:54","slug":"inspired-to-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/16\/inspired-to-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired to care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/sponsored_sections\/inside-forever-care\/inspired-to-care.html\">TORONTO STAR<\/a> &#8211; People are the true heart of MPG<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/sponsored_sections\/inside-forever-care\/inspired-to-care.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/03-main-mpg-0-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/03-main-mpg-0-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/03-main-mpg-0-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/03-main-mpg-0-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/03-main-mpg-0-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/03-main-mpg-0-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/03-main-mpg-0-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/03-main-mpg-0-135x90.jpg 135w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/03-main-mpg-0.jpg 1086w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><p>When <strong>Pamela Bussoli<\/strong> 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.<\/p><p>But she was having none of it \u2014 she felt drawn to the profession, even as a 16-year-old growing up in an Italian-Argentinean household at Keele and Sheppard.<\/p><p>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.<\/p><p>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?<\/p><p>For her, such&nbsp;curiosity is not morbid. It\u2019s natural.<\/p><p>\u201cWhy does death have to be something so bad, so mysterious? It\u2019s a part of life,\u201d says Bussoli, who joined MPG in 2014.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/sponsored_sections\/inside-forever-care\/inspired-to-care.html\">TORONTO STAR<\/a><\/div><\/div><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO STAR &#8211; 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[519,518],"class_list":{"0":"post-3135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-mississauga","9":"tag-pamela-bussoli"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/03-main-mpg-0.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3135\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}