• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Former mortician here. These aren’t used everywhere or all the time. If your family requests your body be embalmed, all the liquids and semi-solids of your insides will be sucked out of your guts using a hollow spear hooked up to a vacuum. If done right, there should be no liquid left in your body to leak out.

    The funeral homes I worked at didn’t have these. If it was necessary to plug the anus, we’d pack it with a bunch of kapok fiber. It’s like cotton but doesn’t absorb liquid.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I know it is vitally important to any culture to have those who handle the dead but for the life of me I am so amazingly glad that this wasn’t a family business I was forced into. My respect to you but also a healthy dose of fear.