[MissBeezyPleasy]

Excellent work!

[drm82]

crazy

[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by Shelbeano ^-^ ↗

I don't know where you're located, but here in my area the bodies are embalmed before cremation. It's like extra insurance, they go out of their way to make sure the person looks good before cremation.

I live in Pennsylvania - Filthydelphia/Killadelphia.

He looked good other than that. Awful to say when he's dead, but, from all of the alcohol abuse and not taking his meds, his body was shutting down. He was debloated and probably lost some weight from only eating two or three days.

He was red/purple and bloated, losing feeling in his legs and hands. He finally agreed to go to the hospital. His heart gave out after 13 days, the day after his 51st birthday.

He was the second one to die from chronic alcoholism, and my youngest, died in a fire with alcohol and meds as contributing factors.

They took some of his skin and his corneas since he was an organ donor. My mother didn't notice so I guess it was alright.

My niece is a cosmetologist so she trimmed his beard. She wanted to. My youngest niece said she thought they took something from his chest, but, his heart, liver and probably lungs were all shot. He had blood in his urine.

[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by Stevee ↗

I read somewhere that if you wanted to see a loved one again after the postmortem you had to give the mortuary notice so they could thaw the cadaver out.

Our funeral home brought my brother's body from the crematory to the funeral home so my mother and his daughter could say, "goodbye".

He died in a fire so they were told not to touch him due to health reasons. He was in a box.

I identified the body and although my mother says she wanted to see him, I thought she might freak out since he was the youngest, at 44.

[Spiffyfable]

Impressive blending with the hand...

That first ear set is most likely pics of before and then after embalming.

[Spiffyfable]

Originally Posted by Shelbeano ^-^ ↗

I don't know where you're located, but here in my area the bodies are embalmed before cremation. It's like extra insurance, they go out of their way to make sure the person looks good before cremation.

My State Law says that Embalming HAS to be done ONLY if there is to be a Public viewing. So immediate family can view an unembalmed corpse. Cremations with a traditional service beforehand must include an embalming (because of the open house viewing involved).

This is Mostly due to Public Safety Standards.... Besides most people with common sense aren't going to want to be in the same room with a person with a communicable disease (Aids, TB, Hep. etc.) especially when they've been dead awhile. Embalming is considered a type of sterilization which can greatly reduce any chance of cross contamination.

[Shelbeano ^-^]

Originally Posted by Spiffyfable ↗

My State Law says that Embalming HAS to be done ONLY if there is to be a Public viewing. So immediate family can view an unembalmed corpse. Cremations with a traditional service beforehand must include an embalming (because of the open house viewing involved).

This is Mostly due to Public Safety Standards.... Besides most people with common sense aren't going to want to be in the same room with a person with a communicable disease (Aids, TB, Hep. etc.) especially when they've been dead awhile. Embalming is considered a type of sterilization which can greatly reduce any chance of cross contamination.

I can see that, and that's what I meant to imply in my last post. But you know religious people here. Anything to do with dead bodies is disgusting and unclean, and being on a website where you can get your fill of them sends you to hell. Maybe they embalm before cremation because they think of death as unclean. Eh, oh well.

[Ed Gein]

Fascinating thread

[dean mclean]

They almost look like wax

[gritz1437]

This is a fantastic thread. It is amazing how a majority of discoloration can be fixed from embalming. My last embalming case had livor mortis and from just a little bit of embalming fluid, it was fixed!