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corporate funeral home victim

I figure that maybe while I'm waiting to graduate I can put all my death care ranting here- I've always wanted to write a book or start a social media page or a blog because there's so much in this industry I have a lot of commentary on. Most people in my life won't really hear me out or don't really get it, and I've always wanted a place to organize my thoughts. A lot of my philosophy really builds on the works of Jessica Mitford with a combination of plenty of good-spirited criticisms of Caitlin Doughty. I just have lots of thoughts and visions and dreams !!! Who knows I might flesh out my whole non-profit funeral home plan more here :)

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end of semestester crisis

I don't remember if I posted about it on Vent at all, but I guess that doesn't matter because it's gone now- but it's been so difficult for me to look at anything mortsci related or listen to my peers talk about their experiences at the funeral home, I get so unbelievely depressed & jealous. I just get insane fomo !! ever since the funeral home let me go last year I've been desperate to get back in the field.

I was supposed to be finished with school next semester and starting an apprenticeship, but I was devestated to find out that my gratuation date is being pushed back an entire year- apparently our mortuary science program is doing really poorly, students can't pass their classes, and only a few students ever graduate. I go to an absoutely incredible well respected school, but our school is incredibly rigorous with us, it's common that students spend 4-5 years to finish an associate's degree compared to other funeral service programs. As a result, our program is on probation and they're restructuring everything. The one course I need to finish is now only available during the summer, and I'm truly losing my mind.

I just want to be embalming already- funeral homes won't take me right now because they want me to be finished with school first, I just can't work full time with my school schedule, but it's soul crushing that I'm so close to the end & the goal post keeps moving.

In other news, we turned in our Restorative Art heads the other week! I actually have photos from throughout the semester as I was working on it, so when I get it back I think it would be cool to have them all side by side to see the progress !! I just have some final touches I need to add :p

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+ being a mort sci major means having a resume solely of funeral homes w very funeral specific qualifications & desperately trying to translate it into your second normal resume

Being a mort sci major means having one normal résumé and one funeral specific résumé with your list of impressive qualifications that a normal employer would be weirded out by. Neither will get you an interview though.

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that moment when mortuary school sounds much more appealing than anything else i could do right now

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“They are at rest, let us show respect” 

Kleindale Cemetary, British Columbia, Canada. Closed on November 9, 1982.

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SGHKJSH I hate that this is true 

The only 2 things I hear when I tell people I’m going to mortuary school: 1. Well you’ll never be out of work! 2. Well someone’s gotta do it!

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Embalming Final on Monday.

Time to study some vocab.

Moribund/Agonl:  Dying state.  Immediately before death

Somatic death:  Body is dead, not cells

Antemortem:  Before death

Agonal algor:  Decrease in body temp immediately before death.  Going into shock

Agonal fever:  increase in body temp.  may be caused by a full stomach.

Agonal edema:  Escape of blood serum from intravascular to extravascular location immediately before death.

Postmortem: After death

Algor mortis:  Cooling down

Livor mortis/cadaveric lividity:  Postmortem, intravascular, red-blue discoloration, resulting from hypostasis of blood.  Blood settling.

Post Mortem Caloricity:  Rise in temp after death

Post Mortem Stain:  Extravascular color change that occurs when hemoglobin seeps though the vessel walls and into body tissue

Putrefaction:  Decomposition of proteins by the action of enzymes from anaerobic bacteria.  Wet and stinky.  No air to skin.

Decay:  Decomp of proteins by enzymes of aerobic bacteria.  No stink.  Dry.  

Signs of decomposition:

Purge:  postmortem evacuation of any substance from external orifice of the body as a result of gas build up.

Desquamation:  Skin slip

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So you wanna be a mortician, huh? Hope you aren’t squeamish.

My stomach is not as weak as your belief in my career choice (via soyouwannabeamortician)

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older morticians rlly be out here wildin’

aradia: FUCK algebra i d0nt need it just give me a dead b0dy and ill figure it 0ut from there

aradia: i feel i sh0uld clarify i am a m0rtuary science maj0r

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*is the heathen of the family*

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by ameyasrealm

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:) <3

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nature is sacred, pass it on.

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can terfs like….get their nasty ass hands off of Aphrodite?? Like she hates you, fuck off!!! She hates when women discriminate and hurt other women, as we should all know.