Mortician Answers Questions About Dead Bodies

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  1. Beth Gallagher

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    Hmmm. I found this interesting but more than a little disturbing. Kinda reinforces my preference for being cremated. If you are squeamish, you might want to pass on the video. It's 14 minutes long.

     
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    Are we on some morbid bent these days?
     
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  4. Beth Gallagher

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    Coward. :D :p
     
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    Well.... yeah. :D
     
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    So why does the adjective "dead" always have to precede the noun "body"?
    The context of the sentence pretty much lets us know the "ceased to be" state of things.
     
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    I suppose a mortician could answer questions about live bodies. Not sure why he would, though.
     
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    "A man called the police to report a dead body he found in the woods."
     
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    Artistic license? Dramatic effect?? Just because???
     
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    It's a common thing.
    I bet people put the needless adjective there more often than not.

    So...got another thread I can try to derail? There's no way I'm watching that video.

    And your cremation comment made me wonder what they will do with the titanium apparatus I have in between a couple of cervical vertebrae. I was in an FDA pilot program. Mine was among the first. I wonder if it's got collector's value? I wonder if I can auction off the future rights to it on Ebay?
     
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    @Beth Gallagher .. Beth you stop this morbid crap right now!:eek: Do not make me drive all the way down to Houston and hunt your butt down and give you a whipp'en! :rolleyes:Seeing and reading and this mess is not the way to stay positive. :D
     
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    how about news reports that say someone was killed dead?
     
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  14. Beth Gallagher

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    @Lon Tanner needs to stop playing with Cranberry and check this thread. He probably has input on this mortician thing. :D
     
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    As a former
    As a former Mortician myself I find all the commentary on the video to be accurate for bodies that have not been autopsied. If there has been a autopsy there are a number of changes to be made in the embalming procedure. Watching a Full Autopsy video might prove interesting to many folks. It's a lot more work to make a body presentable for viewing if there has been a autopsy.
     
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