No Barrier Fun!

[harp]

fracturates wanted pictures from my embalming text book, so here they are. I'm Friends-locking this because I'm paranoid about this being something I'm not supposed to do as a student. Iunno. Dear Mr. Harp, you are being kicked out of the school for scaring everybody with scary pictures from your text book. We are trying to make funeral directors less scary, Goddamnit! Love, Funeral Directors





Some stuff about the equipment we're going to use, how to keep it clean, what it does, blah blah.


We also learn about the history of embalming. It's kinda like going to Hogwarts School of Deathcraft and Deathery. There's history of Death, Psychology of Funerals (Charms, haha), Microbiology (Transfiguration?). Embalming is transfiguration.


Aspiration's a nasty business. We've gotta aspirate the stomach, too, and all the stuff that didn't get out of the large intestine comes out. Ickers.


If you're going to ship a dead body, this is how to do it.

Ok, so from here, the really "upsetting" pictures start. I'll post my two favorites first and if you don't like them then turn back now!





Honesty time: I really, really, really want to embalm a baby or a little kid. I think those are going to be my favorites because I'm not very big and it's going to be very difficult to pick up grown adults. And dressing them in their little outfits and making them look nice and sweet, like they're sleeping, just imagining how they might have turned out if they grew up. Who knows. Maybe this one would'a grown up to be a funeral director; maybe this one would'a been the one embalming dead me?

While I read this chapter, I started wondering what it'd be like to have a kid and then embalm him/her myself. I guess it'd be pretty sad. But at the same time, if I "made" this kid, then it'd be like the final showing of an art piece. I hope I'm not upsetting anyone. This is all just speculation.


The most beautiful picture in my book. God, I love this one so, so, so much. It reminds me of the Okkervil River song "For Real". It's the stitching that gets me. It's just so nice.
i liek teh pretty pictures
ME GUSTA


T'is where we make the incision to get the fluids running, providing that the body hasn't been autopsied. That calls for a six point injection because... well, with regular embalming, the tube goes in, the fluids go through the normal roads (veins) and makes the blood GTFO. If the heart is gone... well!


I am so curious about how we're supposed to make people look nice after they've got crushed faces, eyeballs hanging out, big feckoff holes in their faces. This is the instant tissue fix spell. Epidermio! Accio skin graft! Skingardium Fixiosa! Expecto Face-eum!


I don't know where people got the idea that we sew eyes shut, but apparently, it's a very, very prevalent thought. We do not sew the eyes shut.
We sew the mouths shut.
*Poker face*
I'm not kidding; look at the picture.


Comment with your thoughts if you read it, darlings.
Thoughts from the ONTDCreepies
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Comments

[mimi-monsterr.livejournal.com]

I think our fellow Creepies would appreciate this :)

[harpsi-fizz.livejournal.com]

Hrmmmm, you're right. I should unlock it just for the week and put a link in the Personal Experiences post...

[xlionxlambx.livejournal.com]

At one time my fiance wanted to do this for a living lol and i do forensic pathology haha

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this, harp. I mean, *I'm* all twitch-ick-scroll down, but then I'm a goober.
And you did thoroughly and sufficiently post warnings.
You rock!

[gala-apples.livejournal.com]

this was fascinating.

the end.

[x-creepy-doll-x.livejournal.com]

AAAHHHHHHH!!!!! *hightails it for the hills*

[ozen.livejournal.com]

I can see why you like that one picture so much. It makes me feel... squirmy... but it's also oddly beautiful. I could see it being photoshop-enhanced and blown up to 10 feet wide and hanging in an art gallery. ^^

[kattidya.livejournal.com]

Seems awesome >:B

[lokifan]

Whoa. Very cool.

[bealze.livejournal.com]

So cool! Thanks for posting this :D

[vespere76.livejournal.com]

I'm late to the party... v.v. late this time, but I just wanted to drop in and thank you for sharing. All things funerary have interested me for years.