I believe you said I could ask questions about your work and if I still may- Do you really have specialized blenders for the bones after cremations? What is the messiest part of the job in general? Do you get to listen to music when you work? Do you ever get work that just seems off for some reason? Like something about the corpse seems strange? Hair and fingernails don’t really grow after death, right? It’s just the skin pulling away isn’t it?

trashfirefallon:

1. Yes, I call it the blender from hell, but there’s an actual name for it. I am blanking on the name right now. It looks more like a bucket that was sunk into a table, and it’s got these dull blades in the bottom. Most of the bone is already in pieces, so it’s not super weird or anything. Looks like pumice tbh

2. Used tissues in the chapel. Purge. Skin Slip. Vacuuming. There’s a lot. 

3. I am not really an embalmer, I prefer working with people. And it depends.

4. All cases look different, and I think the weirdest thing I ever encountered was seeing a bone doner for the first time. I just kinda stared at his legs for a bit, trying to figure out what I was looking at. 

5. Nothing grows after death other than fungus (lol). It’s the skin dehydrating and pulling away, you are correct.   

Thank you!!

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Hairdresser: We’re going to have to use a color remover to take out the blue pigment, then apply more pigment to allow for the proteins in the hair to adhere to it. Then possibly mix three different types of toners to reach the goal of your natural hair color.

Hairdresser: pretty simple

Me: this is chemistry

Hairdresser: yeah, but people don’t like when we talk that way

Hairdresser: so you’re a mortician?

Me: apprentice

Hairdresser: do you know why formaldehyde is used in clothing?

Me: I didn’t know that was a thing

Hairdresser: I think it’s due to the preserving qualities? But I don’t think that’s right.

Me: It’s not just a preservative, it’s also a disinfectant ‘cause it destroys bacteria as well as their food supply. It’s also a dehydrator. 

Hairdresser: why not just use alcohol?

Me: good question. Formaldehyde is super cheap, so probably to cut costs

Hairdresser: is it really a carcinogen? 

Me: yeah, I’m going to have so much cancer

Hairdresser: so you’re going natural to work at a funeral home?

Me: yeah

Hairdresser: while still in school?

Me: well we work in the funeral homes so we have uuuuh … experience with cases

Hairdresser: you can just say bodies it’s fine 

Me: oh thank god

Five Minutes Later

Me: yeah so we don’t do autopsies it’s one of my pet peeves

Hairdresser: what if someone wakes up while you’re embalming them?

Me: there’s a huge difference between a living body and a dead one

second hairdresser: I think we should add more toner, but yeah I think rigor mortis would make it pretty obvious

Me: that and being in a fridge for a few days you will be dead by the time you get to us

Hairdresser: I think pumping them full of a carcinogen would help with that

@trashfirefallon …Is it too much to ask for more stories about you and your line of work? Or soon to be line of work because… I dig this more than a gravedigger does a plot in a cemetery.