@globehunter2 so do i have really a choice to stay in earth forever...or at least unti lthe last person dies? maybe i would like to go anywhere i want visit places and protect people can i really do that? i know that my soul is very kind and i dont hurt others....
@globehunter2 ok now if i get it right...hmm...that people said is there a judgment day is true...then there is no reason i think to ask anyone for example i am dead...can i go to heaven or shoud i stay here...in other words i make as i please right?
@globehunter2 oh and what about if i want to touch someone? not just a family member...maybe a stranger can i really make that? or if i been want to others can see me or not is my choice?
@globehunter2 i thought that ghosts are real....for example if i die...can i go anywhere i like since i am thin air? or can i visit anyone i want in his her dreams?
What needs to be done is to show the whole process, people need to know or be able to see if they Want too. Now days they make is so " off limits" in what and how they do it. I have been around from picking up the dead to putting them in the coffin..It is not dangerous or mysterious, and people have the right to know the whole process. Death should not be "Oh you can't see or know what we do"..
So... Basically the flesh is burned off of the body in a cardboard box... you're crushed at extreme temperatures... then placed into a grinder to become dust... Mixed with other dust particles from other bodies... I'd rather be buried out of the box into plain soil, eaten by bugs and distributed through the earth in a natural manner... Just my opinion, no need to discriminate or tell me why I should do anything otherwise... I'd rather rot in the woods!
I am a funeral director and owner.The last man claims that "this generation" wants to personalize by buying caskets with golf clubs.In my opinion, personalizing merchandise is how some funeral homes sell more expensive products to families(did you hear him say "it's an emotional thing"?).The most important aspect is not what you buy but time for family and friends to share memories, visit together, maybe eat and drink.Those who sell,sell sell are ruining our business and perpetuating the stigma.
@cumaroz28 hell yeah, actually i remember watching something about a tribe which slices open the dead bodies and leaves them for the vultures. the body is just a shell, and if i can help out some living creature with it, then thats what i would prefer too.
they need to update their funeral home, how bloody miserable and out dated....geez with all the money they make you'd think they'd update their place and make it a little more happier....
@Epicnerdgasm Wait...seriously? There is way more to funeral service than buying a CASKET, a "4 hour service", and burial. First of all, your figure is pretty off, as it will vary from funeral home to funeral home (and that is a higher number). Secondly, neither a casket, embalming, a ceremony, nor a burial are requirements. Third, what do you deem as un-respectful? Please learn tolerance for others, as what you may think is "more respectful and natural" is simply desecration in other religions.
Hi, if you are going to be put in a casket you will have to be washed clean and embalmed otherwise you are going to blow up.there is no climatisation in the coffin lol! my advise opt for a 24 hours burial a la muslim. Gather the family quick for a goodbye and get the biscuits and tea ready too.
@cannoir Washing is almost always done, but embalming is usually an option. An unembalmed body won't "blow up" in short order unless other circumstances (heat, moisture, etc.) help that process along.
An embalmed body in a casket will be preserved for a relatively long time, but not forever. Sooner or later, embalmed bodies also decompose, so you get the same effects - just at a later date.
@marsweston You get what you pay for to a large extent. Funerals are way cheaper in the UK in part due to the fact embalming is unusual as is make-up, we don't really go in for viewing the body except at the time of death so the body can be kept in cold storage until the day of the funeral. We usually have plain(ish) wodden coffins and services, if any, held in the chapel of the cemetery or, increasingly the crematoria. We don't make such a song and dance out of being dead like the US do.
It amuses me how squeamish some folk still appear to be around the subject of death.It happens to each & every 1 of us.The dead can't hurt us,there's no mystery about it.Personally I do feel funerals are way costly,BUT if a funeral brings comfort to the loved ones of the deceased then it has to be personal choice.Being floated out on a river on a funeral pyre wouldn't be to everyone's 'taste'.
In Indian culture it's the preferred method of 'disposing' of the body.There is a 'religious' element to the proceedings.I'm not sure if it's the Sikh or Hindu religion,or possibly both religions.
@popazz1 You're so right! In the good old days,people had death around them all the time,People that moved west in the 1840's.People are sqeamish about it.
@popazz1 I think so too.With the advances in medicine people want to avoid thinking about death.They think they have 1,0000 years.I know people that I feel are wasting their life,Putting things off til tomorrow or years ahead.I think we have to live life fully.There is so much talk about health that they forget the spiritual.
Hahahahaha.I think we have to blame the world's banking system for forcing the retirement age back! But,on a more serious point,'cause of medical advances & the fact that we are living longer the National Health Service in the UK is crumbling fast.I'd be quite happy to get to 65 & to then just quietly slip away,lol.
@popazz1 Now there's over a billion missing in the US.My where did it go? LOL! Things are getting so bad with the banking we need a community banking system but it has flaws.They are trying it in California Hollywood.That is so true! Are they planning to change the NHS or are they leeping it? Obamacare probably won't make it here but I'm happy cause it will put us all into bankruptcy further.
There are small community loan 'shops' dotted around the UK but even they are suffering. I've had to use the NHS quite often recently & I thank 'god' for it as I just wouldn't be able to pay the exorbitent private health care costs.The current coalition government is doing all it can to smuggle a two-tier system through 'the back door'.But everyone knows that just means the 'poor' will suffer in terms of health care.We shall see.
@popazz1 The NHS sounds much better than Obamacare.Obamacare will get us further into a financial rut.There isn't any clear cut explaination of how it would help everyone.We have 300,000,000 people plus our tax dollars are already paying for the wars and Obama's social programs.
Well THAT'S the underlying issue,tax dollars/sterling diverted into the war funds.It's similar to the billions spent down the years on space exploration.I mean,surely we could've been spending such huge amounts on those in need on this planet rather than being the 1st to discover 'life' elsewhere.Egos and power hunger are ruining this planet.
@popazz1 That is so true! I think this race for space is a human ego trip.There are so many starving hungry people in the world that must be the very first priiority.All nations need financiall fixing and at the sanetime the last of the space shiuttles took their final trips.Sure it was interesting but maybe now that the space priogram has been kind of put on hold in the US now is the time to get people clothed and fed.People have the earth and it's a beautiful home.Home sweet home.
It's as if world governments really don't care,so long as they get to play Monopoly with OUR money whilst throwing crumbs at us.And world bankers don't seem to be learning any lessons from the current crisis.They just keep on awarding themselves obscene amounts in 'bonuses'.If you or I awarded ourselves a bonus for screwing up we'd more likely be arrested for fraud.
@Epicnerdgasm First off I find it a disgrace that you send anything about NATIVE Americans...Another is I am a funeral director. That's obsurd. Look more into your information. I am Native American and also a funeral director.
@Epicnerdgasm Caskets cost anywhere from $400-$25,000. It's your own dang choice. You can even build and bring in your own burial container. Neither embalming nor purchasing a casket's required by law, and you can throw your own memorial gathering w/o a funeral home's assistance.
There's a TON of overhead that mortuaries need to pay for btw. Embalmers have the starting salary of an entry level teacher. Opt out of paying for services & fees if it peeves you that much.
Dead people can't talk back. You have to take biology and learn to apply make-up a special type of make-up that is used just for dead people because once the blood is drained the skin looks grey. I wanted to go into this but I was making more at my current career but I would love to be a grief counselor at a funeral home if they ever had such a thing some day
In Russia you die and nobody makes money. Here it is a racket. What if the most beautiul woman you had to do her. In the old days kings would let their wife riot for a couple days, because if you brought in a fresh queen they would frig them. That's sick.
Funeral Homes smell good. Like flowers. I used to work as a funeral assistant. I was scared of the dead bodies at first but then I realized dead people can't hurt you. Living people are WAY more scary. Gotta respect this job. Not everyone is cut out for it. Takes a special kind of person to be a good funeral director.
@Epicnerdgasm Well, you say that furneral homes are "scams". Americans send their "loved ones" off to furneral homes...and, IT COSTS ALOT OF MONEY FOR THESE PEOPLE THAT WORK AT FURNERAL HOMES TO ALL THESE SUCH THINGS! If you did this kind of work, would you work for cheap??? I HIGHLY DOUBT IT!
When i die, i want everyone wearing rainbow colors, i want my coffin to be fucking purple, and everyone laughing with a blunt in their hands, and just remember the good times! :D
That guy was handling human remains with bare hands. How is he handling non-cremated remains? Then he shakes your hand or family members? What about the stuff on his shoes that gets on a carpet with a baby crawling around?
Okay, so I had to go to a funeral home the other day to do a maintenance type of service...Why was I not escorted in "the back" where all this stuff happens, and second, What is up with the huge cardboard box of wood shavings that I saw in the prep area? What are shavings used for?I was too freaked out to ask, and all I wanted to do was get outta there! Fortunately I did not see any dead bodies!
if my family ever spent 10,000 on a funeral for me i want them to invision me beatin the hell out them. they can dump me off on the state and let them bury me for free or kick me in ditch lol i dont care about my body anymore after i die, its not like ill be using it, ill either be in one of two places and hopfully ill be in the place i want.
@Epicnerdgasm, First, most caskets aren;t even close to ten thousand unless you are very wealthy and can afford a higher grade. You have no idea about the background, planning, and nitty gritty details there are to a funeral so when the family walks through the door everything is perfect. So, a funeral is actually more respectful than acting like a barbarian and throwing a corpse into a bonfire.
Love it how they're both nervous at 2:30 the funeral director/embalmer is nervous about being on camera, and the presenter is nervous about going into the mortuary (look at both of their hands fidgeting)
You can buy caskets anywhere any more. Check them out at Costco. We just purchased one for my dad, then 3 months later my oldest brother and got them online! They were beautiful! And we only paid $1200 for each one and that included shipping. Found the plots on line too, incredibly inexpensive too. I appreciate the funeral home and all they do. It does take a special person to handle that job. Seems to me they would have had some type of 'ghost' experience. Too frightening for me.
Well considering there are no state laws in any state that would allow you to just be thrown in a bonfire then I would suggest you rethink your final disposition.
IF you think that funerals are a rip off, take care of a dead body of a relative of your own, when the next family death occurs. It won't take you long to figure out why funerals cost what they do.
@Epicnerdgasm IF you think that funerals are a rip off, take care of a dead body of a relative of your own, when the next family death occurs. It won't take you long to figure out why funerals cost what they do.
@DJSexLeopard I just talked to him again. He said that he's handled over 4,000 cases, one has never sat up and flailed around. He did say however, that for a very short time after death (a few minutes) the body can twitch slightly. But once the brain is biologically dead after 5-minutes, the only movement will be from gravity and when rigor starts. Anyway, for what it's worth!
@DJSexLeopard I told your story to a friend of mine who's family owned a funeral home for over 50-years, and he told me that's ridiculous. He's been an embalmer for 15-years and has never had or seen a body jerk and fall off a slab. He said they can make vocal noises when moved because there's still air left in the lungs and it's enough to move the vocal cords. But non of this rising up off the table mumbo jumbo.
That scarred me for life. I started crying when I saw the enbalming room. My friend told me that they take the eye balls out and everything when they display the body in the casket so I wanted to see if it is true but this was too much. I am so scared to die now.
@aurabarbie56 Your friend is wrong. The eyes are not removed as a part of the normal preparation process. Unless the eyes were donated to science, there's no reason to remove them. The only thing done to the eyes in the embalming room is that eye caps, which you see on this video, are placed in the eyes to keep the lids closed and give them shape, as the eyes tend to shrink after death.
Thank you so much for posting this video. I've always wondered about what goes on behind the scenes. I recently had an a cousin and two uncles pass in the recent years. I'm still coping with these losses. But each day gets a little better.
The weird thing is why mankind is "interested" in muder, death, etc. It's not the best subject to talk about, but it still happens. Then one day, you meet up with an old friend, and they ask, "So what are you working as today?!" and you would be all weird and probably screw up in what you say, and say, "Oh, I keep dead people from melting!" and their expression will be something that you would probably be shocked, too, of what you said.
This is a very interesting documentary. :) I did funeral arranging for my senior project and was able to intern at a funeral home. I was able to tour the whole funeral home including the embalming room. From what i learned I felt this documentary was accurate and most of the information I was familiar with except the eye caps. from reading the comments I now know why they have them. Thanks for sharing the info! :)
and separation between the superior and inferior palpebrae (eyelids). When a body is embalmed, especially utilizing a strong introfier solution, internal dehydration can have the same effect. Eyecaps are great for keeping shape and placement, but even with eyecaps, dehydration sometimes reaches a point where aaron alpha adhesive and/or surface wax is necessary to hide the separation. Small details, but I always like the public to know the full story so that myths can be dispelled.
@USMCmortician well it depends if the person died eith hes or her eyees open it will be hard to close it. sometimes it happen sometimes it doesnt. i had an expericence with an eye poppe open alredy
@USMCmortician well it depends if the person died eith hes or her eyees open it will be hard to close it. sometimes it happen sometimes it doesnt. i had an expericence with an eye popped open alredy
As a mortician, I felt this documentary was respectful and accurate. I do, however, feel the need to specify something. When the director used the phrase "pop open" to refer to the purpose of eye caps, it was somewhat misleading to the public. The eye of a decedent would never "pop" open. When an unembalmed body is placed under refrigeration, such as awaiting private identification by the family, the cold, dry air can sometimes dehydrate the tissue and cause some dehydration
When i die, I already made it clear i want to be cremated, and sprinkled in the ocean or be put in one of them marble boxes with the philadelphia eagles logo. One or the other. I refuse to sit and decomp.
@ColoradoKing26 I'm gonna be a funeral director when I'm older. I think I want to be cremated. half of my ashes go into an urn with the flyers logo on it. The other half will be split into fourths with 1/4 going into a rocket and shot into outer space, and the other fourth goes into fireworks.
@ColoradoKing26 Yeah. Cemetaries are just taking up land for the future. And they're releasing furmaldahide into underground aquifers, and wasting steel, metal, wood, cement, etc. Cremation is probably the better option.
I think it's something that you almost have to become 'desensitised' to in a way? Your still respectful to the person & families but you just 'get used to it' for lack of better words. I wouldn't be able to 'work on' anyone under the age of 25 though & especially kids/babies, that would be too hard for me because I'd know they'll never have the chance to live a full productive life.
i would never work at a funeral home even if u paid me $100 dollars the hour, i dunno how u guys do it, dont u guys who work at a funeral home ever get nightmares?? whats its like working here???
@UntrustedXSoul IF you think that funerals are a rip off, take care of a dead body of a relative of your own, when the next family death occurs. It won't take you long to figure out why funerals cost what they do.
@UntrustedXSoul not nearly as bad as it seems, and the most strangest thing is...those people in the video who you see working there would most likely be some of the funniest people you'd ever hope to meet. it's such a huge requirement to have a laugh in that job
@UntrustedXSoul It's great actually. You prepare a body for a funeral, the last time his/her loved ones will see them. The final viewing of the body is very important to the grieving process. It's nice to know you help people move on in some way.
@UntrustedXSoul I worked at one for about 3 years before applying to medical school. Honestly, it really prepared me for my current job (EMT) and future career as a doctor. Never had any nightmares. Everyone's very respectful to the deceased and their families.
@UntrustedXSoul i worked with a guy that his sis worked in a funeral home. i met her once and man, fuck, one look at her and i just about fell over. i guess those fluids affect them some how sooner or later. chick looked like she got out of the coffin so i could meet her. haven't had the chance to see her again. that is good news.
@UntrustedXSoul I'm 15 now, but I \'m going ot be a funeral director when I'm older. I've always wanted to be a funeral director since I was 3. I was always one of those little kids who loved to play in cemetaries and everything. I consider it to be like a calling. It doesn't scare me at all, although many of my friends are creeped out by the idea of me wanting to work with dead people. Anyway, I'm excited for it.
All that equipment must cost in the hundreds of thousands. Hmmmm. I wonder where these funeral directors get all that money. You'd have to be RICH to afford all that.
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@TechnicalJaguar Me either......I don't want to be buried underground....I would rather be placed in a nice open space with the casket open at all times and someone to "check on me" once a week.
@Annazayla I wish that could be done, but as you know the human body will rot and spread a horrible stench. I would rather be burned and put into a urn, or what it's called.
DO NOT BECOME A MORTICIAN U WORK HORRIBLE HOURS, EXPOSED TO CANCEROUS FUMES, DONT HAVE A PENSION CUZ FUNERAL HOMES ARE VERY SMALL BUSINESSES, MOST PARTS OF THE COUNTRY ARE SEEING 75 PERCENT OR MORE OF CREMATIONS, USUALLY PAID 30 TO 45 THOUSAND A YEAR. THATS IT....THIS IS THE TRUTH....WORK EVERY OTHER WEEKEND NOT WORTH IT. I KNOW I AM ONE...DONT MAKE SAME MISTAKE.....
Well maybe not everyone looks at it the same way you do. Maybe I care more about helping others then a higher salary and it depends where you work for hours. And you can get cancer from so many different things, just use universal precautions. There is nothing wrong with cremation.
Funeral homes may offer a good service to the deceased loved ones but you can be cremated at a cheaper price and you can be laid out without being embalmed immediately after your death! so do not allow funeral directors to tell you anything that is bulllshit!
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corkguy09 21 hours ago
BORING as hell
sarabower1 5 days ago
fuckin boring,if i want to see a casket store i have one near home so....
ortidpi 1 week ago
It reminds me of "Six feet under"...
Animalkisser 2 weeks ago
@Animalkisser Definitely !!!!! welcome to Fischer & sons :)
nirvanamag 2 weeks ago
really? hm ok but some people say that jesus wont let you be a ghost for eternal because they said you go to hell:/ is this true?
TheBByamashiro 4 weeks ago
@TheBByamashiro Actually Jesus is a ghost him self, known as a Holy Ghost. Being
a ghost doesnt mean your evil or unfit to enter higher realms like Heaven..etc.Ghosts
are with us and know more about us than we know about them.
Note> I tried to leave you a message on your youtube channel? but it was blocked.
I dont have the web service you asked if i had. sorry.
globehunter2 3 weeks ago
@globehunter2 so do i have really a choice to stay in earth forever...or at least unti lthe last person dies? maybe i would like to go anywhere i want visit places and protect people can i really do that? i know that my soul is very kind and i dont hurt others....
TheBByamashiro 3 weeks ago
@TheBByamashiro You can stay on earth as long as the planet earth exists. Then
you can travel to other places in the universe to help those beings. If you have a kind
soul it will be sent to a kind world to keep helping others even into Forever more. There
will be no end.
Yes we are friends in you want us to be?
globehunter2 3 weeks ago
@globehunter2 weee:D thank you
TheBByamashiro 3 weeks ago
@globehunter2 ok now if i get it right...hmm...that people said is there a judgment day is true...then there is no reason i think to ask anyone for example i am dead...can i go to heaven or shoud i stay here...in other words i make as i please right?
TheBByamashiro 3 weeks ago
@globehunter2 oh and what about if i want to touch someone? not just a family member...maybe a stranger can i really make that? or if i been want to others can see me or not is my choice?
TheBByamashiro 2 weeks ago
Death is 100% assured to happen to us all. A dark reality that most people choose
to deny until this mysterious and age old experience comes to call. Religion tends
to comfort believers in a after life` and Athiests must prepare for a final end. No matter
what you believe? passing away is a fact of life.
globehunter2 1 month ago
@globehunter2 i thought that ghosts are real....for example if i die...can i go anywhere i like since i am thin air? or can i visit anyone i want in his her dreams?
TheBByamashiro 4 weeks ago
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globehunter2 4 weeks ago
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@TheBByamashiro When you die you vaporize from your body, then
you look down on your dead body. Now you realize your a ghost which
is intelligent energy. You can walk through walls float up to roof tops..etc.
Just like a radio wave you can travel hundreds of miles per hour. Or you
can stay and haunt the place where you died. You will be Eternal.
globehunter2 4 weeks ago
@globehunter2 Yes you can also visit family members friends or
even materialize in their dreams. The only thing you can not do is
die, because energy is forever and has no end. Ghosts are actually
the imprint of your soul.
globehunter2 4 weeks ago
Very Interesting.
sunset721 1 month ago
Talk about job security . . .
dkubick 1 month ago
What needs to be done is to show the whole process, people need to know or be able to see if they Want too. Now days they make is so " off limits" in what and how they do it. I have been around from picking up the dead to putting them in the coffin..It is not dangerous or mysterious, and people have the right to know the whole process. Death should not be "Oh you can't see or know what we do"..
onefeather2 1 month ago
I have had to deal with the funerals of 2 relatives and found the funeral Directors to be kindly, respectful, and professional
Good folk who will help you through a rough time and NO they dont try and rip you off
archie474 1 month ago 2
So... Basically the flesh is burned off of the body in a cardboard box... you're crushed at extreme temperatures... then placed into a grinder to become dust... Mixed with other dust particles from other bodies... I'd rather be buried out of the box into plain soil, eaten by bugs and distributed through the earth in a natural manner... Just my opinion, no need to discriminate or tell me why I should do anything otherwise... I'd rather rot in the woods!
JeepGuy80 1 month ago
I am a funeral director and owner.The last man claims that "this generation" wants to personalize by buying caskets with golf clubs.In my opinion, personalizing merchandise is how some funeral homes sell more expensive products to families(did you hear him say "it's an emotional thing"?).The most important aspect is not what you buy but time for family and friends to share memories, visit together, maybe eat and drink.Those who sell,sell sell are ruining our business and perpetuating the stigma.
Starksfuneral 1 month ago
I am never getting cremated so someone has to try and shake me loose from the folds of a plastic bag like that!
Askimoula 2 months ago 3
@Askimoula Ditto!
JeepGuy80 1 month ago
Well, I found the information that cremated remains are more like beach sand than floaty ashes to be very informative.
Moonchalice 2 months ago 2
Decent funeral home, if not a bit outdated.
However, I love the sign on the preparation room door "Danger. Formaldehyde." That sign is only required if the room is not OSHA compliant.
Rayven10 2 months ago
this was very interesting i am interested in becoming a funeral director and owning my Own Funeral Home
MegaBlackisBeautiful 2 months ago
I can think of millions of other uses for that kind of money then some big box, just throw me to wolves and dump a bottle of vodka in respect
cumaroz28 3 months ago
@cumaroz28 hell yeah, actually i remember watching something about a tribe which slices open the dead bodies and leaves them for the vultures. the body is just a shell, and if i can help out some living creature with it, then thats what i would prefer too.
theMadbombR 2 months ago
thanks for the upload
Christ4JewsGentiles 3 months ago
I wouldn't mind if they didn't try to palm me off with that box of ashes being 'my loved one'. Have you seen what happens in the crematorium?
steve998 3 months ago
@steve998 I have. What are you referring to? The body is cremated and the ashes are collected, pulverized, and sent to the funeral home / family.
What is wrong with that?
Rayven10 2 months ago
@Epicnerdgasm yeah im agree with you dead needs respect no money to be burried
carlosvaldes2007 3 months ago
As thin as him? I think he meant vice versa XD
cbohar84 3 months ago
they need to update their funeral home, how bloody miserable and out dated....geez with all the money they make you'd think they'd update their place and make it a little more happier....
ozpunk2 3 months ago
@Epicnerdgasm Wait...seriously? There is way more to funeral service than buying a CASKET, a "4 hour service", and burial. First of all, your figure is pretty off, as it will vary from funeral home to funeral home (and that is a higher number). Secondly, neither a casket, embalming, a ceremony, nor a burial are requirements. Third, what do you deem as un-respectful? Please learn tolerance for others, as what you may think is "more respectful and natural" is simply desecration in other religions.
marsweston 3 months ago 16
Hi, if you are going to be put in a casket you will have to be washed clean and embalmed otherwise you are going to blow up.there is no climatisation in the coffin lol! my advise opt for a 24 hours burial a la muslim. Gather the family quick for a goodbye and get the biscuits and tea ready too.
cannoir 3 months ago
@cannoir Washing is almost always done, but embalming is usually an option. An unembalmed body won't "blow up" in short order unless other circumstances (heat, moisture, etc.) help that process along.
An embalmed body in a casket will be preserved for a relatively long time, but not forever. Sooner or later, embalmed bodies also decompose, so you get the same effects - just at a later date.
Rayven10 2 months ago
@marsweston You get what you pay for to a large extent. Funerals are way cheaper in the UK in part due to the fact embalming is unusual as is make-up, we don't really go in for viewing the body except at the time of death so the body can be kept in cold storage until the day of the funeral. We usually have plain(ish) wodden coffins and services, if any, held in the chapel of the cemetery or, increasingly the crematoria. We don't make such a song and dance out of being dead like the US do.
longdog65 3 months ago
You cannot beat the Great Leveller
malkaraatgw1 3 months ago
It amuses me how squeamish some folk still appear to be around the subject of death.It happens to each & every 1 of us.The dead can't hurt us,there's no mystery about it.Personally I do feel funerals are way costly,BUT if a funeral brings comfort to the loved ones of the deceased then it has to be personal choice.Being floated out on a river on a funeral pyre wouldn't be to everyone's 'taste'.
popazz1 4 months ago
@popazz1 can people still do that??
Deaflemming1 4 months ago
@Deaflemming1,
In Indian culture it's the preferred method of 'disposing' of the body.There is a 'religious' element to the proceedings.I'm not sure if it's the Sikh or Hindu religion,or possibly both religions.
popazz1 3 months ago
@popazz1 You're so right! In the good old days,people had death around them all the time,People that moved west in the 1840's.People are sqeamish about it.
lovejumping2011 3 months ago
@lovejumping2011 ,
I think that because we now have the medical knowledge,(in part),to extend life it's as if some of us feel we shouldn't have to deal with death.
popazz1 3 months ago
@popazz1 I think so too.With the advances in medicine people want to avoid thinking about death.They think they have 1,0000 years.I know people that I feel are wasting their life,Putting things off til tomorrow or years ahead.I think we have to live life fully.There is so much talk about health that they forget the spiritual.
lovejumping2011 3 months ago
@lovejumping2011 ,
And the way advances in medicine are going we may well live to be 1000 years old.Imagine THAT,lol.
popazz1 3 months ago
@popazz1 There goes the retirement at 65.LOL!Old age will have a whole different meaning!LOL!I want one of those fine flying cars like The Jetsons!:D
lovejumping2011 3 months ago
@lovejumping2011 ,
Hahahahaha.I think we have to blame the world's banking system for forcing the retirement age back! But,on a more serious point,'cause of medical advances & the fact that we are living longer the National Health Service in the UK is crumbling fast.I'd be quite happy to get to 65 & to then just quietly slip away,lol.
popazz1 3 months ago
@popazz1 Now there's over a billion missing in the US.My where did it go? LOL! Things are getting so bad with the banking we need a community banking system but it has flaws.They are trying it in California Hollywood.That is so true! Are they planning to change the NHS or are they leeping it? Obamacare probably won't make it here but I'm happy cause it will put us all into bankruptcy further.
lovejumping2011 2 months ago
@lovejumping2011 ,
There are small community loan 'shops' dotted around the UK but even they are suffering. I've had to use the NHS quite often recently & I thank 'god' for it as I just wouldn't be able to pay the exorbitent private health care costs.The current coalition government is doing all it can to smuggle a two-tier system through 'the back door'.But everyone knows that just means the 'poor' will suffer in terms of health care.We shall see.
popazz1 2 months ago
@popazz1 The NHS sounds much better than Obamacare.Obamacare will get us further into a financial rut.There isn't any clear cut explaination of how it would help everyone.We have 300,000,000 people plus our tax dollars are already paying for the wars and Obama's social programs.
lovejumping2011 2 months ago
@lovejumping2011 ,
Well THAT'S the underlying issue,tax dollars/sterling diverted into the war funds.It's similar to the billions spent down the years on space exploration.I mean,surely we could've been spending such huge amounts on those in need on this planet rather than being the 1st to discover 'life' elsewhere.Egos and power hunger are ruining this planet.
popazz1 2 months ago
@popazz1 That is so true! I think this race for space is a human ego trip.There are so many starving hungry people in the world that must be the very first priiority.All nations need financiall fixing and at the sanetime the last of the space shiuttles took their final trips.Sure it was interesting but maybe now that the space priogram has been kind of put on hold in the US now is the time to get people clothed and fed.People have the earth and it's a beautiful home.Home sweet home.
lovejumping2011 2 months ago
@lovejumping2011 ,
It's as if world governments really don't care,so long as they get to play Monopoly with OUR money whilst throwing crumbs at us.And world bankers don't seem to be learning any lessons from the current crisis.They just keep on awarding themselves obscene amounts in 'bonuses'.If you or I awarded ourselves a bonus for screwing up we'd more likely be arrested for fraud.
popazz1 2 months ago
My dad is a funeral director he loves it works 24 hours off 48hours
undertaker2180 4 months ago
i would hate being in an elevator alone with a dead body in a casket!
bffsrock8 4 months ago
@bffsrock8 well... they are dead...
flyersphan111 3 months ago
@Epicnerdgasm First off I find it a disgrace that you send anything about NATIVE Americans...Another is I am a funeral director. That's obsurd. Look more into your information. I am Native American and also a funeral director.
GiriahGozRawr 4 months ago 5
@GiriahGozRawr Of course you are..suuurre
gfpiper 3 months ago
@GiriahGozRawr wow an Indian with a job!
sarabower1 5 days ago
i would hate to to drive a dead body around knowing i have my back turned to it !
millSz1125 4 months ago
@Epicnerdgasm Caskets cost anywhere from $400-$25,000. It's your own dang choice. You can even build and bring in your own burial container. Neither embalming nor purchasing a casket's required by law, and you can throw your own memorial gathering w/o a funeral home's assistance.
There's a TON of overhead that mortuaries need to pay for btw. Embalmers have the starting salary of an entry level teacher. Opt out of paying for services & fees if it peeves you that much.
KimberlyKLow 4 months ago 3
Man, those instruments shown at 3:20 are so old and overused, can you imagine how many dead folks they were used upon?
cadburyenglishman 4 months ago
Dead people can't talk back. You have to take biology and learn to apply make-up a special type of make-up that is used just for dead people because once the blood is drained the skin looks grey. I wanted to go into this but I was making more at my current career but I would love to be a grief counselor at a funeral home if they ever had such a thing some day
Ilovedthe70s76 4 months ago
Interesting video. I did hear that when ice cream founder Tom Carvel died, he had a really FAST service: His casket was melting..........
prfcg2 5 months ago
In Russia you die and nobody makes money. Here it is a racket. What if the most beautiul woman you had to do her. In the old days kings would let their wife riot for a couple days, because if you brought in a fresh queen they would frig them. That's sick.
amerikaiscommunist 5 months ago
Accept death before accepting life then there will be no fear of death I appreciate Funeral Home workers work,,,
Davinderanu 5 months ago
Funeral Homes smell good. Like flowers. I used to work as a funeral assistant. I was scared of the dead bodies at first but then I realized dead people can't hurt you. Living people are WAY more scary. Gotta respect this job. Not everyone is cut out for it. Takes a special kind of person to be a good funeral director.
burnInHellGZLolz 5 months ago
I'm getting cremated, the most disgusting things are done to your corpse just so everyone can look at you, ick, its unnatural
TheBubbass 5 months ago
GOTTA LOVE The sales pitch at the end.
petarphyle 5 months ago
I cant handle dead people </3
SamanthaKind 5 months ago
its fascinating....
laurenzomoore 5 months ago
@Epicnerdgasm Well, you say that furneral homes are "scams". Americans send their "loved ones" off to furneral homes...and, IT COSTS ALOT OF MONEY FOR THESE PEOPLE THAT WORK AT FURNERAL HOMES TO ALL THESE SUCH THINGS! If you did this kind of work, would you work for cheap??? I HIGHLY DOUBT IT!
SubSlaveCD 5 months ago
When i die, i want everyone wearing rainbow colors, i want my coffin to be fucking purple, and everyone laughing with a blunt in their hands, and just remember the good times! :D
maryannepike14 5 months ago
That guy was handling human remains with bare hands. How is he handling non-cremated remains? Then he shakes your hand or family members? What about the stuff on his shoes that gets on a carpet with a baby crawling around?
dustycoyote1 5 months ago
@dustycoyote1 THEY WEAR PAPER SHOES -LIKE RAIN BOOTIES. TO PROTECT THEIR SHOES FROM BEING CONTAMINATED.
TheBluelincoln 5 months ago
@Epicnerdgasm Nordics did that too
Whitevoice14 5 months ago
@Epicnerdgasm i kinda found that racist.
motleycruequeen 6 months ago
Okay, so I had to go to a funeral home the other day to do a maintenance type of service...Why was I not escorted in "the back" where all this stuff happens, and second, What is up with the huge cardboard box of wood shavings that I saw in the prep area? What are shavings used for?I was too freaked out to ask, and all I wanted to do was get outta there! Fortunately I did not see any dead bodies!
Wellington5392 6 months ago
@Epicnerdgasm go green bruh, no need to be embalmed. no need buy casket. be buried in a forest to help preserve forest more than preserving ourselves
namezryan 6 months ago
if my family ever spent 10,000 on a funeral for me i want them to invision me beatin the hell out them. they can dump me off on the state and let them bury me for free or kick me in ditch lol i dont care about my body anymore after i die, its not like ill be using it, ill either be in one of two places and hopfully ill be in the place i want.
strrb75 6 months ago
@strrb75
ill either be in one of two places and hopfully ill be in the place i want
which place do you want?
hell or heven
The391956 5 months ago
@The391956 well idk anyone who wants to go to hell including myself lol
strrb75 5 months ago
SOMEONE HAS TO DO IT , THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT ARE FOR SURE NEW LIFE AND END OF LIFE....
1goldbaby 6 months ago 3
@Epicnerdgasm 10,000 bucks for a "coffin" (it's a casket)? it sounds like you got ripped the hell off.
silenceisaweapon101 6 months ago
@Epicnerdgasm, First, most caskets aren;t even close to ten thousand unless you are very wealthy and can afford a higher grade. You have no idea about the background, planning, and nitty gritty details there are to a funeral so when the family walks through the door everything is perfect. So, a funeral is actually more respectful than acting like a barbarian and throwing a corpse into a bonfire.
rileyy1992 6 months ago
@rileyy1992 i hate you and u have little wiener. see you tomorrow fool.
Barneykiller135 3 months ago
Love it how they're both nervous at 2:30 the funeral director/embalmer is nervous about being on camera, and the presenter is nervous about going into the mortuary (look at both of their hands fidgeting)
comikrocker 6 months ago
You can buy caskets anywhere any more. Check them out at Costco. We just purchased one for my dad, then 3 months later my oldest brother and got them online! They were beautiful! And we only paid $1200 for each one and that included shipping. Found the plots on line too, incredibly inexpensive too. I appreciate the funeral home and all they do. It does take a special person to handle that job. Seems to me they would have had some type of 'ghost' experience. Too frightening for me.
maryheltzel 6 months ago
Well considering there are no state laws in any state that would allow you to just be thrown in a bonfire then I would suggest you rethink your final disposition.
srvisbluesking 6 months ago
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IF you think that funerals are a rip off, take care of a dead body of a relative of your own, when the next family death occurs. It won't take you long to figure out why funerals cost what they do.
mortitio 6 months ago
@Epicnerdgasm IF you think that funerals are a rip off, take care of a dead body of a relative of your own, when the next family death occurs. It won't take you long to figure out why funerals cost what they do.
mortitio 6 months ago
Um in Islam,we wash the body as soon as the person dies,wrap them in cloth,do a prayer and bury them within 24 hours . No $10,000 involved
Afgsusan1 6 months ago
To think this a path that we all must follow......
wifa4lifa 6 months ago
this is verry intresting and not macrab
TheAlexa1978 7 months ago
@DJSexLeopard I just talked to him again. He said that he's handled over 4,000 cases, one has never sat up and flailed around. He did say however, that for a very short time after death (a few minutes) the body can twitch slightly. But once the brain is biologically dead after 5-minutes, the only movement will be from gravity and when rigor starts. Anyway, for what it's worth!
enigma800 7 months ago
Death will happen, we got nothing to stop it, or prevent it.
groulx98 7 months ago
@DJSexLeopard I told your story to a friend of mine who's family owned a funeral home for over 50-years, and he told me that's ridiculous. He's been an embalmer for 15-years and has never had or seen a body jerk and fall off a slab. He said they can make vocal noises when moved because there's still air left in the lungs and it's enough to move the vocal cords. But non of this rising up off the table mumbo jumbo.
enigma800 7 months ago
Id hate to get stuck in that lift
RianTrace84 7 months ago
i wonder if they fondle the bodys
jrjr143 7 months ago
Glad I'm gonna be dead when all this shit has to happen to me.
*shudders*
LadyAshy 7 months ago
That scarred me for life. I started crying when I saw the enbalming room. My friend told me that they take the eye balls out and everything when they display the body in the casket so I wanted to see if it is true but this was too much. I am so scared to die now.
aurabarbie56 7 months ago
@aurabarbie56 Think of it this way, dear; you'll be dead. You won't feel a thing.
Still kinda scary, though, but...eh. No avoiding it, right?
LadyAshy 7 months ago
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@LadyAshy
not if your jesus :)
supergamerocks2 7 months ago
@aurabarbie56 Your friend is wrong. The eyes are not removed as a part of the normal preparation process. Unless the eyes were donated to science, there's no reason to remove them. The only thing done to the eyes in the embalming room is that eye caps, which you see on this video, are placed in the eyes to keep the lids closed and give them shape, as the eyes tend to shrink after death.
enigma800 7 months ago
Thank you so much for posting this video. I've always wondered about what goes on behind the scenes. I recently had an a cousin and two uncles pass in the recent years. I'm still coping with these losses. But each day gets a little better.
classy45chick 7 months ago
The weird thing is why mankind is "interested" in muder, death, etc. It's not the best subject to talk about, but it still happens. Then one day, you meet up with an old friend, and they ask, "So what are you working as today?!" and you would be all weird and probably screw up in what you say, and say, "Oh, I keep dead people from melting!" and their expression will be something that you would probably be shocked, too, of what you said.
MrDoglover239 7 months ago
This is a very interesting documentary. :) I did funeral arranging for my senior project and was able to intern at a funeral home. I was able to tour the whole funeral home including the embalming room. From what i learned I felt this documentary was accurate and most of the information I was familiar with except the eye caps. from reading the comments I now know why they have them. Thanks for sharing the info! :)
LovelyXlillies 8 months ago
and separation between the superior and inferior palpebrae (eyelids). When a body is embalmed, especially utilizing a strong introfier solution, internal dehydration can have the same effect. Eyecaps are great for keeping shape and placement, but even with eyecaps, dehydration sometimes reaches a point where aaron alpha adhesive and/or surface wax is necessary to hide the separation. Small details, but I always like the public to know the full story so that myths can be dispelled.
USMCmortician 8 months ago
@USMCmortician well it depends if the person died eith hes or her eyees open it will be hard to close it. sometimes it happen sometimes it doesnt. i had an expericence with an eye poppe open alredy
Denatastic 8 months ago
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@USMCmortician well it depends if the person died eith hes or her eyees open it will be hard to close it. sometimes it happen sometimes it doesnt. i had an expericence with an eye popped open alredy
Denatastic 8 months ago
As a mortician, I felt this documentary was respectful and accurate. I do, however, feel the need to specify something. When the director used the phrase "pop open" to refer to the purpose of eye caps, it was somewhat misleading to the public. The eye of a decedent would never "pop" open. When an unembalmed body is placed under refrigeration, such as awaiting private identification by the family, the cold, dry air can sometimes dehydrate the tissue and cause some dehydration
USMCmortician 8 months ago
Death is a very mysterious, macabre, interesting subject.
gajda1984 9 months ago
Oh, and i want 2pac- fuck all yal played at my funeral, and everyone MUST wear green, and white. No tears.
ColoradoKing26 9 months ago
When i die, I already made it clear i want to be cremated, and sprinkled in the ocean or be put in one of them marble boxes with the philadelphia eagles logo. One or the other. I refuse to sit and decomp.
ColoradoKing26 9 months ago
@ColoradoKing26 I'm gonna be a funeral director when I'm older. I think I want to be cremated. half of my ashes go into an urn with the flyers logo on it. The other half will be split into fourths with 1/4 going into a rocket and shot into outer space, and the other fourth goes into fireworks.
kidkong584 8 months ago
@kidkong584 Sounds like a good plan you have. I think being cremated is better, and more better for the family as they still have you. Good plan.
ColoradoKing26 8 months ago
@ColoradoKing26 Yeah. Cemetaries are just taking up land for the future. And they're releasing furmaldahide into underground aquifers, and wasting steel, metal, wood, cement, etc. Cremation is probably the better option.
kidkong584 8 months ago
@kidkong584 Yeah it is a better option, and i think it's only fair. I'm sure some people don't agree, but that's the best route to take.
ColoradoKing26 8 months ago
208 meridan ave. southington, Ct 06489 <--- the haunting in connecticut address. Old funeral home.
justbreathhex 9 months ago
i dont want my body towed away in a hearse, i want mine in a 300ZX awesome!
artofurmomma 9 months ago
Excellent documentary.
2nicks 9 months ago
thanks for posting.this is very intersting.I visited a funeral home when i was in high school
peugteobike 9 months ago
this is not any type of criticism, im just wondering why would someone want to work at a funeral home?
Annad8624 9 months ago
@Annad8624 Usually it's because they go to a funeral and say "I could do better." or "I like how they do this!" and they end up loving it.
kidkong584 9 months ago
so they dont pop open on us lol
2011PACKERFAN 10 months ago
The organ they show on here looks very simular to the one we have at my home church.
babycakes1402 10 months ago
I think it's something that you almost have to become 'desensitised' to in a way? Your still respectful to the person & families but you just 'get used to it' for lack of better words. I wouldn't be able to 'work on' anyone under the age of 25 though & especially kids/babies, that would be too hard for me because I'd know they'll never have the chance to live a full productive life.
babycakes1402 10 months ago
i would never work at a funeral home even if u paid me $100 dollars the hour, i dunno how u guys do it, dont u guys who work at a funeral home ever get nightmares?? whats its like working here???
UntrustedXSoul 10 months ago 19
@UntrustedXSoul IF you think that funerals are a rip off, take care of a dead body of a relative of your own, when the next family death occurs. It won't take you long to figure out why funerals cost what they do.
mortitio 6 months ago
@UntrustedXSoul not nearly as bad as it seems, and the most strangest thing is...those people in the video who you see working there would most likely be some of the funniest people you'd ever hope to meet. it's such a huge requirement to have a laugh in that job
comikrocker 6 months ago
@UntrustedXSoul It's great actually. You prepare a body for a funeral, the last time his/her loved ones will see them. The final viewing of the body is very important to the grieving process. It's nice to know you help people move on in some way.
justismackenzie1 6 months ago
@UntrustedXSoul I worked at one for about 3 years before applying to medical school. Honestly, it really prepared me for my current job (EMT) and future career as a doctor. Never had any nightmares. Everyone's very respectful to the deceased and their families.
unclewalter87 5 months ago
@UntrustedXSoul i worked with a guy that his sis worked in a funeral home. i met her once and man, fuck, one look at her and i just about fell over. i guess those fluids affect them some how sooner or later. chick looked like she got out of the coffin so i could meet her. haven't had the chance to see her again. that is good news.
hotdog12ify 5 months ago
@UntrustedXSoul I'm 15 now, but I \'m going ot be a funeral director when I'm older. I've always wanted to be a funeral director since I was 3. I was always one of those little kids who loved to play in cemetaries and everything. I consider it to be like a calling. It doesn't scare me at all, although many of my friends are creeped out by the idea of me wanting to work with dead people. Anyway, I'm excited for it.
flyersphan111 5 months ago
@flyersphan111 I'm about to go to school for this! Keep at it, its a job that needs to be done and special minded folks are needed to do it!
RealStarHusky 4 months ago
@RealStarHusky Thanks =)
flyersphan111 4 months ago
@RealStarHusky well said! good luck on your life's work!
spacecatsonmars 4 months ago
@UntrustedXSoul my uncle said its fun.
jerwinrocks 5 months ago
All that equipment must cost in the hundreds of thousands. Hmmmm. I wonder where these funeral directors get all that money. You'd have to be RICH to afford all that.
daffydoug 10 months ago
good luck all of ya'll !
CrazyNative4 10 months ago
Great Info!!
Reezy420 10 months ago
Mortuary science is an art.
d22587 11 months ago
Sometimes i just use an Abracadavore.Its magical!
walleyrt69 11 months ago
Excellent idea. It gives insight when people otherwise only can speculate. Nice job.
prazenhymn 11 months ago
No gloves or mask when emptying cremated remains into the funnel?
LindaONYT 1 year ago
@LindaONYT lol i was wondering that too...
kidkong584 11 months ago
@kidkong584 Yeah, meaybe they just get used to dealing with ashes they don't care no more =p
LindaONYT 11 months ago
02:10 beach sand consistency? I want to be a sand castle on a Florida beach
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Gregmills007 1 year ago
I work at a funeral home. It's not as bad as certain people make it out to be. The hours can be ridiculous, but the job is satisfying.
xxstaggerxx 1 year ago
i really think this is what i want to do with my life.
NEBallerina123 1 year ago
I don't feel like getting put into a casket after death...
TechnicalJaguar 1 year ago
@TechnicalJaguar Me either......I don't want to be buried underground....I would rather be placed in a nice open space with the casket open at all times and someone to "check on me" once a week.
Annazayla 1 year ago
@Annazayla I wish that could be done, but as you know the human body will rot and spread a horrible stench. I would rather be burned and put into a urn, or what it's called.
TechnicalJaguar 1 year ago
@TechnicalJaguar cremated?
kidkong584 1 year ago
@kidkong584 That's the word.
TechnicalJaguar 1 year ago
5:09 is that the lord of the rings shire music that he played for about two seconds? hahaha
lizardman2135 1 year ago
DO NOT BECOME A MORTICIAN U WORK HORRIBLE HOURS, EXPOSED TO CANCEROUS FUMES, DONT HAVE A PENSION CUZ FUNERAL HOMES ARE VERY SMALL BUSINESSES, MOST PARTS OF THE COUNTRY ARE SEEING 75 PERCENT OR MORE OF CREMATIONS, USUALLY PAID 30 TO 45 THOUSAND A YEAR. THATS IT....THIS IS THE TRUTH....WORK EVERY OTHER WEEKEND NOT WORTH IT. I KNOW I AM ONE...DONT MAKE SAME MISTAKE.....
attaboy527 1 year ago
@attaboy527 YOU SEEM LIKE A VERY SMART PERSON THANK YOU RANDOM YOUTUBE USER, YOU HAVE DECIDED WHAT I WILL DO WITH THE REST OF MY LIFE.
xxstaggerxx 1 year ago
@attaboy527
Well maybe not everyone looks at it the same way you do. Maybe I care more about helping others then a higher salary and it depends where you work for hours. And you can get cancer from so many different things, just use universal precautions. There is nothing wrong with cremation.
TheKodden 1 year ago
wouldn't the majority of those ashes would bone and of the casket wouldn't it
DanielR305 1 year ago
Funeral homes may offer a good service to the deceased loved ones but you can be cremated at a cheaper price and you can be laid out without being embalmed immediately after your death! so do not allow funeral directors to tell you anything that is bulllshit!
padude64 1 year ago
im going for a mortician im actually exited.i wish there was a vid that focouses on just that.that takes you step by step on their job
bongshnitzel 1 year ago
This is vry gud bcuz im goin 2 skool 2 becoma a funerl director also...It seems very fun
Karinda4957 1 year ago
Wow. I just hope all bodies are treated with the Highest Respect! Because, That was someones Mom, Dad, Sister or brother.
hallie5309 1 year ago