From notes I took today, stuff in quotes is verbatim:
- if you can’t trick anyone else into helping you move a real fat/heavy corpse, call the fire department. ”the po-po will not help you” (apparently they will stay outside and laugh at you)
- sometimes you are faced with a corpse that “will…
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Nevada, USA, January 2012
a series of unfortunate me: funeral service industry protips
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Stop trying to “get it together.” The biggest lie we’re told when we’re growing up is that soon as we’re adults, as soon as we’re in college, finish college, get that job, have that steady income, find that someone special, “find ourselves,” find that perfect house, get that retirement fund, have those children, everything will fall into place. Here’s a secret: it won’t. Every new development in your life, good or bad, big or small, will come with its own very special set of challenges. The sooner you accept that, the better off you’ll be. But the myth is perpetuated throughout life, perhaps now more than ever with happy status updates on Facebook and blushing bride/happy multi-tasking mommy blog posts. What these success stories don’t tell you is what is going on behind closed doors. They don’t tell you that your friend who is so over the moon with her new baby had to apply for food stamps. They don’t tell you that your fantastic, involved professor struggles with depression. They don’t tell you that your happily married friend still has nightmares about her abusive ex. They don’t tell you the cousin who just got that jealousy-inducing job opportunity is thinking of breaking up with his boyfriend of 10 years. What closely interacting with people from all backgrounds on the Internet for over a decade has taught me is that no one “has it together” in the way we think they do. So stop trying to have that as your goal, because you are just setting yourself up for massive failure.
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This may be the most beautiful thing ever
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Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more;
it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
SIgnifying nothing.
Macbeth, v.6 (permalink)
Embalming Final on Monday.
Time to study some vocab.
Moribund/Agonl: Dying state. Immediately before death
Somatic death: Body is dead, not cells
Antemortem: Before death
Agonal algor: Decrease in body temp immediately before death. Going into shock
Agonal fever: increase in body temp. may be caused by a full stomach.
Agonal edema: Escape of blood serum from intravascular to extravascular location immediately before death.
Postmortem: After death
Algor mortis: Cooling down
Livor mortis/cadaveric lividity: Postmortem, intravascular, red-blue discoloration, resulting from hypostasis of blood. Blood settling.
Post Mortem Caloricity: Rise in temp after death
Post Mortem Stain: Extravascular color change that occurs when hemoglobin seeps though the vessel walls and into body tissue
Putrefaction: Decomposition of proteins by the action of enzymes from anaerobic bacteria. Wet and stinky. No air to skin.
Decay: Decomp of proteins by enzymes of aerobic bacteria. No stink. Dry.
Signs of decomposition:
Purge: postmortem evacuation of any substance from external orifice of the body as a result of gas build up.
Desquamation: Skin slip
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