Ask a Mortician: Can they keep me from my dead?
Added 2017-11-10 22:53:47 +0000 UTCHello corpsey muffins!
(This is my new term of endearment, though it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it?)
This is an older style Ask a Mortician with a series of questions about life in a funeral home. Though to be fair I give the most weight to a question about family's being kept from their dead. Is it legal? Spoiler: no.
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Caitlin
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I have another question for AAM. I would prefer a green burial, and I know there is a green cemetery close to where I live in the US, but we are currently living overseas. *Should* something happen to me or my immediate family, how would we get a body back to the states without embalming?
Emily Gjertson Donakowski
2017-12-29 04:57:26 +0000 UTCI recently had a mother who was viewing her son after a gunshot wound to the head. He was in good shape, as the exit wound was small, but the mother asked to actually see the wound ( we had it covered ). I didn't falter, I walked in and uncovered it for her to view. She then wanted to see his upper body. I uncovered him and she cried and cried. She needed that in order to believe further it was him. She needed to see. I would never question that! Thankfully she was with us and we allowed such a viewing. I'm sure it's not the same in many plaes. Thanks for this topic!!
Heather Campbell Hill
2017-12-09 01:55:59 +0000 UTC
