Mortician Breaks Down 9 Corpse Scenes In Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

"I have never seen a person come back to life" Well, thank goodness. I can sleep now.

She is so respectful. She is the mortician you would be lucky to have care for your body or the body of someone you love.

Morticians and embalmers are really the last stage of the healthcare system. Her points about using PPE and being responsible for and respectful of the person are consistent with hospital protocols.

I love how Six Feet Under is less realistic than Weekend at Bernie’s.

I worked in Aged Care for a lot of years and had the privilege of being with many people in their final moments. We’d lay them out (wash their body, dress them in clean nightwear and make them look as peaceful as possible). One gentleman released air when we rolled him, sounded like a low gasp. Scared the absolute crap out of us! We also used to chat to them during the process- we’d looked after these people, some had no family and we cared for them right until the end.

Considering the nature of morticians jobs they always seem very collected and we'll natured people.

There's no way I could do what she does, respect.

I like her. She's very respectful and kind. She is the female version of Victor Sweeney, the mortician that WIRED brought onto their channel and people absolutely fell in love with. He pretty much went viral.

I have insane amount of respect for morticians and funeral priests. They take care of us when we are the most helpless, cleans us, suits us, hides our secrets. Im not sure about other countries but in my country, the main duty of them is to respect a body and whatever they see (something inappropriate like the first scene) should stay with them and no one should know.

I used to live above a funeral home/mortuary. The owner was a really great older guy, and he only had one assistant who was around his age, so when they had to move a very large client, they asked me to help them wheel her up the ramp and into the back of the funeral home. As we were wheeling her up the ramp, her hand came out from under the sheet covering her and patted against my groin. I calmly said, "No, thank you, ma'am" and tucked her hand and arm back under the sheet.

The "I do a bow" was strangely cute

“I do bows” was said so sweetly

I'm in construction and have done a lot of work in hospitals, including hospital morgues. We had a very specific list of do's and don'ts for working in the morgue. Most of them were common sense. For example, we had to wear sterile PPE at all times, maintain negative atmospheric pressure, use HEPA filtration, etc. We were also not permitted to eat, drink, chew gum, etc, in the morgue. Nor were we permitted to make jokes of any kind or even swear while in the morgue itself. I don't know whether it was policy specific to the hospital, or if it was some sort of odd law on the books. But they were very strict about maintaining "an atmosphere of solemn dignity" in the vicinity of dead bodies.

No one I know, have worked with, or has been a Funeral Director picking up a body has EVER treated that person with disrespect. If they did, they would not last long in their profession. Even in the early morning hours, our Funeral Directors picked up the deceased in full suits, shirts and ties. The dead were always referred to as Mr, Mrs etc etc. Dignity.

Dignity and respect are very important. Thank you for your work.

Her tying the suture knots in a bow is so cute in a morbid kind of way.

She's great, this was fascinating. I love the way she talks too, not a mile a minute, she sounds very thoughtful and caring.

I never thought of it, but it makes sense why zombies make moaning/growling noises; Air from the lungs passing through vocal cords. Kinda neat

she’s so respectful and kind about everything, like tying a bow? so sweet, i’m just kinda stuck on degloving

Haha, I read that as "Morticia breaks down 9 dead body scenes". Happy Halloween!