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POSTMORTEM STAIN “That doesn’t look like my son!” she yelled as she viewed her 45-year-old boy for the first time since his overdose. As a side note, my Great Uncles entire unit would eventually die from lung cancer from breathing in the fumes of the embalming pool. There was a small swimming pool of embalming fluid and they’d drop the bodies in the pool and let the bodies soak until they were pickled enough to be shipped back home. So, instead of arterial embalming, they’d do what my Uncle called “pickling”. As you can imagine, some of the soldiers came back in stages of advanced decomposition, rendering arterial embalming a near impossibility. His group was responsible for embalming the soldiers lost in battle.
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DECOMPOSITION My Great Uncle (a funeral director for over 50 years) served in the Grave Registration Unit during the Korean War. Unfortunately, I can’t make you look like Brad Pitt or Cindy Crawford.įIVE. But, say a person is laying down on a train track and cut down the middle from pelvis to head, it’s possible to embalm them if we can find the arteries, but restoring them is a no-go.įOUR. If a person is decapitated in a clean fashion at the neck, it’s possible - although unlikely - for us to make things work. DISMEMBERMENT Amazingly, we can fix some kinds of dismemberment. And once it takes over, we pray for a cure, but that prayer is rarely answered.
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It’s like the movie Outbreak but in a morgue. Tissue gas is so contagious that if it gets on our embalming instruments, it will spread to the other bodies.
Tissue gas results from an organism that duplicates itself every six minutes, causing a normal dead body to totally change in a matter of hours. The words that strike fear into the heart of the embalmer. TISSUE GAS (aka Clostridium perfringens). I’ve never seen it, nor has my grandfather who has embalmed nearly 10,000 bodies, but sometimes the circumstances and the body combine for some distinct changes that embalmers can’t entirely change. I thought that my friend was exaggerating, that maybe it was Formaldehyde Gray, but when I saw the pictures (that were taken for lawsuit purposes) there was nothing gray about this man’s skin.
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The day of the service the wife walked into the church to view the body and yelled, “That’s not my husband! My husband is white!” It was, in fact, her husband, but unknown to the funeral director, the drugs that were given to the dead guy by the hospital, coupled with his cause of death had stained his skin black. And my funeral director friend assumed that the deceased was black. A couple years ago, a funeral director friend of mine picked up a dead man in his 60s from the hospital with black pigmented skin. And there are some things that the mass majority of us can’t fix (although some embalmers will likely differ with this list because we embalmers are a vexed and opinioned bunch).
The rest of us are just human, with limited tricks and limits to our art. If the funeral industry had saints, Jack Adams has worked enough miracles to be canonized a couple times over. When I was in school, our embalming professor worshiped an embalmer named “Jack Adams.” In the world of embalming, there are a couple embalmers who are damn near miracle works.
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