Do professional morticians ever get queezy?
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omgzeloswilder
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I've actually asked this question of a couple of them before... Call it a morbid curiosity... Yes. Sometimes there are people that come in that have issues that need to be addressed. One thing that is common is the evacuation of the bowels, or last breath. Trust me, after a few days, that last breath cannot be helped by Binaca. The mortician's job is to clean the body and prepare it for presentation, in the case of an open casket. However, it is also their job to ensure that body is in there in the case of a closed casket funeral. Imagine what they may see in those cases.
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I don't know about morticians but I was a surgery tech for a few years and as a tech I had to take bodies to the morgue after surgery sometimes and on a few occasions they would put a trainee with me. I worked the 7pm to 7 am shifts and there would be no one in the surgery or morgue floors hardly. I remember the uneasiness the trainees would have when we would roll the body into that elevator, and then get off on the morgue floor, usually barely lit. We would go into the chamber and put the body on a tray and slide them into the "cooler". Once when we went to lift a body onto a tray the body flipped over face first and a trainee almost passed out. I often thought about doing something to scare one of them, make the body move or something...but I figured I might actually be putting 2 bodies in a cooler if I did!
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Yes it happens sometimes. I worked in a funeral home and it all depends on the condition of the body . A strong odor can trigger a gag reflex in anyone.
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