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“There’s a number of bad things in life; and having an itch on your nose when you’re embalming is certainly one of them.”

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How do I become… an embalmer?
Some modest GCSEs – and the right attitude – can get you on a two-year course, then the job might take you anywhere
As an eight-year-old, Kevin Sinclair would fetch the Hoover from the chapel beneath the family flat, see dead bodies in coffins and carry on. “They were just sleeping,” he says casually. “That’s what my parents would tell me.” What the average person would have considered macabre, he saw as normal and merely a matter of getting used to.
And after getting used to it, he followed his father into the funeral business and became an embalmer, a job he has been doing for 22 years. He co-founded the Feltham-based London School of Embalmingin 2006, where he embalms and teaches.
A typical day starts with a delivery, but not your standard postal influx. Around eight to 10 bodies released from hospitals, nursing homes or private residences arrive ready for the embalming to begin. During the week, he teaches as he embalms. Under supervision, students have the opportunity to learn the craft with the deceased.

(Source: The Guardian)

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malformalady:

Lividty pattern showing both the outline of the arm that was pinned between the body and a hard surface. Lividity starts when blood flow ceases after death. The blood that was formerly flowing through the body is drawn to the lowest point in the body by the influence of gravity. Typically, postmortem lividity appears as a bluish-purple or reddish-purple color in the regions of the body that are in close contact with the ground. Areas that are further removed from the ground can be pink at the periphery of the discoloration.