Should I become a mortician?

[wry wrangler]

Lately I feel like my life is stuck in a rut. Should I become one of those guys who prepares dead bodies for burial?

 

[Vingle]

I think you should start with this thread, to see if you have any aversion to dead people.

https://kiwifarms.pa/threads/post-videos-of-people-dying.86179/

 

[Kiwi On The Go]

Are you a necrophile?
A) No
B) Yes
If A: Yes.
If B: Also yes.

 

[Least Concern]

You will never lack for clients.

 

[Fliddaroonie]

The money is solid. Not high. But it's stable. No lack of work. And the clients don't answer back.

It's a great field if you've the stomach for it.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

There’s a fat goth chick on YouTube who’s a mortician. She seems to like it. Are you a fat goth chick? Please say yes.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Yes, and post on the death thread.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Dude, I feel you, but it turns out you can't just be an embalmer, cleaning up and sluicing out dead bodies.

You have to also do the mortician part, which is high-pressure sales targeting people who are in a state of grief.

The part where you squirt rotting blood down the sewer and rebuild a nose out of putty is cool. The part where you convince people to spend thousands on a casket is despicable.

There might be some bigger funeral homes where you can specialize, though. You could also get a CNA/LNA license and work at a hospice house; you get to do aftercare, but you have to not mind cleaning up people who are still breathing a little, too.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

Dude, I feel you, but it turns out you can't just be an embalmer, cleaning up and sluicing out dead bodies.

You have to also do the mortician part, which is high-pressure sales targeting people who are in a state of grief.

The part where you squirt rotting blood down the sewer and rebuild a nose out of putty is cool. The part where you convince people to spend thousands on a casket is despicable.

There might be some bigger funeral homes where you can specialize, though. You could also get a CNA/LNA license and work at a hospice house; you get to do aftercare, but you have to not mind cleaning up people who are still breathing a little, too.

I know depending on the circumstances some morticians provide services that are practically taxidermy such as but not limited to wiring jaws and things to make sure the corpse looks the best it can in the coffin.

 

[Aunt Carol]

I know depending on the circumstances some morticians provide services that are practically taxidermy such as but not limited to wiring jaws and things to make sure the corpse looks the best it can in the coffin.

That's the part I was interested in, back in my edgy youth phase. Meat sculpting Grandma in a tile room with nobody bugging you seems pretty rad and satisfyingly task-oriented.

Sales, though; horrifying.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

You get to chill with a lively crowd. Do it.

 

[BrunoMattei]

It's hard to get into because they're mostly a family run business especially at funeral homes.