Various Different Women Shown in Their Casket

ladylike · #**1591** ● 01-08-2016, 03:20 AM

Originally Posted by Anubis Fetish ↗

That would explain a lot. There are a few sets that include images of the car and the deceased, and you just wonder how they came out of that accident looking as great as they do. I just thought that somehow they weren't injured that badly.

What kinds of injuries do not tend to turn out as well for reconstruction?

I forgot to answer your second question.

"What kinds of injuries do not tend to turn out as well for reconstruction?"

I believe it depends on the artists skill. I really do. Just like the little boy mauled by dogs. He suffered some horrific injuries. The artist was able to reconstruct him perfectly.

If the reconstruction looks like crap, I don't say, "Oh, but the deceased suffered some bad injuries. The artist tried." I'm usually the one saying, "Wow, that artist sucks." Now, I understand there are some injuries that are pretty terrible and I don't mean to offend any artists, but sometimes the injuries are out of the artists skill level. Plain and simple. I still believe they try their hardest and do what they can, but they do it at their skill level.

Anubis Fetish · #**1592** ● 01-08-2016, 03:23 AM

Originally Posted by ladylike ↗

Well, to be fair, some people suffer from other internal injuries that kill them rather than head trauma. So, some of those pictures may be accurate as far as no obvious head trauma because they may have suffered injuries other than head trauma. They may have had a broken spine, ruptured organ(s), lacerations that caused them to bleed out, any number of other injuries you can't see outwardly while they lay dressed in a casket.

I don't want to give you the impression that everyone who is ever in a car accident has to suffer some type of head trauma, because that isn't accurate. I apologize if that is the impression I gave you. I was speaking only of people who had known head trauma.

I hope this hasn't confused you.

Someone told me that they knew a woman who had a tree fall on her car. She actually suffered no direct injuries from the tree itself, but died when her neck broke from the sudden deceleration that occurred from the tree stopping the car.

The morticians assistant I know has said that they occasionally get in similar cases at her funeral home, where the person has no outward signs of injury but died of brain trauma or neck injuries.

Anubis Fetish · #**1593** ● 01-08-2016, 03:27 AM

Originally Posted by ladylike ↗

I forgot to answer your second question.

"What kinds of injuries do not tend to turn out as well for reconstruction?"

I believe it depends on the artists skill. I really do. Just like the little boy mauled by dogs. He suffered some horrific injuries. The artist was able to reconstruct him perfectly.

If the reconstruction looks like crap, I don't say, "Oh, but the deceased suffered some bad injuries. The artist tried." I'm usually the one saying, "Wow, that artist sucks." Now, I understand there are some injuries that are pretty terrible and I don't mean to offend any artists, but sometimes the injuries are out of the artists skill level. Plain and simple. I still believe they try their hardest and do what they can, but they do it at their skill level.

Are there mortuaries that only work on the atypical cases where more reconstruction is needed? Is that part of what contracting out the embalming is done for?

ladylike · #**1594** ● 01-08-2016, 03:44 AM

Originally Posted by Anubis Fetish ↗

Someone told me that they knew a woman who had a tree fall on her car. She actually suffered no direct injuries from the tree itself, but died when her neck broke from the sudden deceleration that occurred from the tree stopping the car.

The morticians assistant I know has said that they occasionally get in similar cases at her funeral home, where the person has no outward signs of injury but died of brain trauma or neck injuries.

Yep. Not everyone will have any type of disfigurement even if the mechanism of injury appears to be traumatic. Like a rollover car accident with ejection. I've seen people who have been ejected look like there is nothing wrong with them. Just some outward scrapes and bruises, but they suffered internal injuries.

ladylike · #**1595** ● 01-08-2016, 03:48 AM

Originally Posted by Anubis Fetish ↗

Are there mortuaries that only work on the atypical cases where more reconstruction is needed? Is that part of what contracting out the embalming is done for?

I have no clue in this regard.

We are kind of getting off topic in this thread. I've enjoyed the discussion, but we may get a slap for moving the discussion away from the original story.