iembalm wrote:I'll start.

If an embalmer has poorly set the features (which means closing the eyes and posing the mouth), and the deceased has a frown after embalming, straight pins are often inserted up into the corners of the mouth and covered over with wax.

derd niffer wrote:No revelation here, but a reminder; if you are rude to a waiter/waitress, they have the ability to do unspeakable things to your food before you eat it.

Arson Smith wrote:I've been told that when PointOfSale(cash registers) are down/offline that department stores pretty much always err on the side of letting the transaction ring through, even for someone filling out a new house card credit application at the register to make the purchase.

So - everyone in charge gets real testy when those systems are down for any length of time, because apparently there is an underground network of fraudsters who communicate to each other and then come out in droves to exploit this temporary weakness.

POS down for a few hours that day? They say there is *always* a HUGE spike in bad credit apps. (i.e. not just a few that would have been otherwise flagged if the systems were up/online)

joelb wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:if you put a corpse in an airplane facing the wrong way it's head will explode during the flight.

Serious? Please expound.

dontfeartheringo wrote:Playing drums is really fucking easy.

Rotten Tanx wrote:Can you verify the following things I've read/heard over the years:

After an autopsy the organs aren't placed back into the body properly but put into a plastic bag which is then plopped inside the chest cavity.
True. When the body comes from the Coroner, the organs (including brains if it's a full autopsy) are already in a pouch. We puncture them, treat them with embalming fluid in a bucket while the embalming is taking place, and then dry them, dredge them in a sawdust-like preservative substance, then either rebag them or place them directly into the cavity.

The lips must be sewn together so that the mouth doesn't fall open during the funeral (if the casket is open).
False, kinda. The mouth is posed before embalming, either with glue or something called a "needle injector," which drives wired spikes into the upper and lower jaw, the wires then being twisted together, or a threaded needle is inserted below the upper lip, up into the left nostril, through the septum into the right nostril, down back into the mouth, behind the little ligament-like-thing between gumline and lower lip, and then tied together with the mouth closed. A proper embalming job will then keep the mouth in whatever position you have posed it. Sometimes the lips don't stay together and glue is used after embalming, but we don't sew, per se.

Special contact lenses are put in the eyes with little spikes that prevent the eyes from opening during the funeral.
True, although sometimes if the person was really dehydrated or the eyes weren't properly closed before embalming we have to glue them shut after.

If a body is cryogenically frozen after death does its soul go to heaven? If so does the unfrozen person get a baby soul or are they soulless? Or if they keep the same soul where does it go for the intervening years?
Yes.

Thanks in advance.

Marsupialized wrote:

joelb wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:if you put a corpse in an airplane facing the wrong way it's head will explode during the flight.

Serious? Please expound.

The liquids in the body are pushed downward with great force during takeoff. If you accidentally put the body in head facing aft instead of feet, pop!
It happens all the time.

ringo wrote:Playing drums is really fucking easy.