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Former mortician here. These aren't used everywhere or all the time. If your family requests your body be embalmed, all the liquids and semi-solids of your insides will be sucked out of your guts using a hollow spear hooked up to a vacuum. If done right, there should be no liquid left in your body to leak out.
The funeral homes I worked at didn't have these. If it was necessary to plug the anus, we'd pack it with a bunch of kapok fiber. It's like cotton but doesn't absorb liquid.
Could leave the husk on for homophobes
Guess it’s called a pod
or a “fruit bag” which sounds a little slurry
I have so many questions but I'm high, so, can you just write more about your job please? I'm fascinated.
Clothing brought in will be cut up the back so the person can be dressed without moving them much. After they're on, a few well placed stiches and some stuffing will make the clothes look like they fit perfectly.
Filling out someone's body is easy, but face has a bit of a trick. A product called "tissue builder" can be injected under the skin to puff it out. It's liquid in the needle but becomes a gel once injected before solidifying allowing you to mold it a bit. The mouth will be stuffed with kapok fiber as well, since it doesn't absorb liquid.
The mouth tends to naturally hang open after death, but people don't like seeing that, so it's wired shut. The most common way is with a tool that essentially pieces the gums with a needle that has a wire attached to it. The top and bottom gums get pierced and then the two wires are wrapped together. Very old people can lose gum density though. In that case, the piercing doesn't stick and will fall out. The alternative method, although some morticians use this method as their main one, is to use a needle and thread and sow the mouth shut. The needle is threaded through the muscles of the lower jaw and then the cartilage of the nose and then the thread is tied together.
Inevitably, a family member will bring you the person's dentures several days after the person has been embalmed. You can't put them in after the mouth has been wired shut, but don't tell the family that because they'll probably get upset. Just tell them you'll take care of it and put the dentures in the deceased's pocket. That happens with a lot of things relating to the body.
It's difficult to explain all the preparation that happens to the body so we just go along with what the family requests instead of explaining why it's not a good idea. I once had a family member request that we keep their mother's body warm because they didn't like the idea of the body being kept in a cold morgue. Uhh...you want us to increase the speed at which the bacteria living in your mother's guts eat her from the inside out?
That request only happened once but several times I've been asked to wait a few days (often the person specified 3 days) before embalming or cremating to ensure the deceased doesn't magically come back to life. Another request I only got once was a husband asking me if I could use his wife's body to make a skeleton display like you'd see in a science class and give it back to him so he could display it in his house and tell people "that's my wife!" At least where I worked, that was not a legal means of disposition. The closest is to donate the body to a school of anatomy for study, but even they will cremate the body after it has been used by medical students.
So the choice is extreme colonic or buttplug. I doubt homophobes are happy with either.
what if you die already with a butt plug? they pop that one out first?
Depends on if the first one is screwed in tight enough.
Yours may appear on their Wall of Fame.
Thank you. That really made me smile and I never would have asked that question myself. Now I wonder what they do if you had a bigger one in at time of death.
staple your asshole shut
Future archaeologists will be left to ponder the ritual significance of this object. Why were so many people buried with this grave good?
“We hypothesize it was for religous reasons”
ritual object
I wonder if I could get the job of screwing this into corpse assholes.
Never turn your hobby into your work. It'll take all the joy out of it.
For some strange reason, I picture you as the supervisor (and record-holder.)
oh god i hope the username doesn't check out on this one
IDK that sounds like it could be a shitty job.
Wouldn't this device prevent maggoty cum farts though? Or are you like a there can be only one kind of deal?
Fun fact: the cork stopper in a cask, keg, or barrel is called a bung. The hole into which it is inserted is called a bunghole.
Bunghole is also a euphemism for anus. So, a question for any morticians here: can we start calling the corpse plug a bung? I’d consider a career change if I got to tell people about the bung in grandpa’s bunghole.
Somehow this step didn't make it into Mortuary Assistant.
It's one of the on-the-job revelations they tell you about in training.
I remember this meme!! In 2020 I came across a stackexchange question referencing this meme, which I found kinda interesting: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/49999/are-cadavers-normally-embalmed-with-butt-plugs-before-burial
I wish my memory was as good for things that aren't memes.
Why is it clear?
So when you're looking up there you can see.
This guy looks
If you angle the head just right, you can shine a flashlight straight through.
so nobody can get offended at the color choices?
or maybe because the holy cock is transparent?
Righty tightly, self-tapping.
That mohawk means serious fucking business.
A guy like that getting a buttplug from a girl in a mortuary you JUST KNOW she was one of those FrreeeeAAAAaaaaky goths.
All conservatives are going to start choosing cremation. My parents were cremated and that brings comfort to my heart. Ass for I, I will require a big plug please. Then you can cremate me. It's just in case I'm still alive at the time. You never know, I could be given one final parting gift that I would gladly accept. LOL. C'mon conservatives! The water is fine!
Brother has a haircut like a zebra
So are these available for purchase anywhere?
Asking for a friend.
I'm the friend.
That's one cursed URL. Every part of it just makes it worse as you read.
Frigid - I wonder what this is about.
Fluid - uuuh...
Products - no, please.
A-V-Closure - nope, I'm done, this link is staying blue.
I've been following him since the LiveJournal days. Back when he made things like Emo Assault Squadron (available on YouTube). He still does hearse work but hasn't put out anything big in some time.
Are mortician more male or female? Anytime I've ever had a friend mention the career path, it's always been a woman...
Bro looks like the dad from Modern Family started a punk band
Not all countries use these kind of services.
