I’m 30 & I Embalm Dead Bodies For A Living | Refinery29
Here on For A Living, we highlight Miranda, a mortician at Milward Funeral Directors in Lexington, Kentucky. Her initial fear of death led her to a career of embalming bodies. Press play on For A Living to learn about a young woman's experience in the funeral business!
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I feel like you could turn this into the coolest Netflix series of 2019
Lol I would binge watch it every day
There’s a show about a funeral home business on Netflix called The Casketeers! I really enjoyed it
@@crybaby3430 There’s a show about a funeral home business on Netflix called The Casketeers! I really enjoyed it
@@dootdoot94xo44 There’s a show about a funeral home business on Netflix called The Casketeers! I really enjoyed it
Casketeers on Netflix
Miranda talking to dead body: Your hair looks pretty
Dead Body: Thanks!
Miranda: Aw Hell naw
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Lol 😆
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lmao
We all need to ask ourselves why are we watching this
I agree
Because I want to be a mortician.. duh
Yes yes I see what you mean
Fun
@@shibbymiyah6614 lol
she’s in a business that everyone’s dying to get into.
Virudshigaa P ha
I laughed WAY to hard 🤣
Nice!
Omg 😂😂👌🏽
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this is what self-quarantine has done to my recommended
Same 🤣
Becca Donovan yes I was like how did my recommended videos get here 😆 looks interesting though.
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Becca Donovan swear 😂🤦🏽♀️
Same
Is no one gonna talk about the fact that she has a cup literally labelled “EMBALMING FLUID”
@Angee Nix 316 people likes his comment so he isn’t the only one..
So no one gonna touch it .. clever 😁
Typical sort light humor common to many professions if you ask me…like Plummers with Roto Rooter coffee cups
Angee Nix no I did too ur the only one who didn’t notice it 🤢🤮
Noticed and thought it was funny and clever because it’s related to her job? Reminds me of haunted houses with feeling boxes that say “brains” “intestine” “eyeballs”
“They haven’t talked back yet” girl i hope tf not
I always talked to them too. 20 yrs in the medical field, I felt honored to take care of them
Lmao
😂😂
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Hahahaha same same gurl
IMAGINE driving home with a dead body in the backseat I-
🤧and the scary thing is that thinking that THE BODY WILL MOVE!😵
Every weekend with my friends After the bar tour
If this will do or die challenge for me then sure but I have to keep an eye on the body if it moves or comes closer to me every time I look away while driving 😂😂😂
@@philfromthefuture i swear the best comment lol
Eminem had his on the front passenger seat
I like how she enters the casket room like she’s doing a Vogue 73 Questions.
I-
True
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OMG LOL
the topic:💀🔪💉
the energy:🤩🍭🌸
yes
No good reason!!!
Hotel:trivago
Her look is impeccable 💅👗
She’s absolutely stunning.
After nursing for almost 18 years and watching people transition, it really makes you think about the same things. This last two years of Covid has really thrusted all of this in people’s faces. It has been insane. I am not sure I could do this side of the work, but I greatly appreciate those that can.
Hi how’re you doing?
I really loved to watch this lady. What I do appreciate the most is her attitude while doing her job: her look is really awesome, she enjoys her own look, she is really committed, humble and nice. These is really rare to find not only in morticians but people in general.
What a strong beautiful woman. I had a stillborn son, my family spent 24 hours w his body then the mortician took him. She had her baby mortuary in her home. It was such a lovely place we dropped off his clothing. She sang to him while she dressed him. Everything was done so kind and beautifully. Takes a special person.
That’s devastating, I’m so sorry for your loss.
@@KingsMom831 Thank you for your kindness.
💕 Thank you for sharing.
Sorry for your loss, my grandson was stillborn,😢 I lost a son from cancer .
@@angeladorsett1159 im so sorry hunny, that pain takes your soul apart. Sending our love to your family.
If I never seen this video I would have never taken the step to start mortuary school. Here I am now with 6 weeks until graduation!! Thank you so much you really inspired me
How’s it going?
congratulations and how is it going !!!!
Congrats and please Update us! 🙂
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It’s going great. I’m glad I finally made that decision and got it done.
I’m enrolling into mortuary school in the fall of 2023. I love this video so much! Very fascinating 🥰
I was just accepted for this fall 2022. I’m very excited.
@@ccn9001 congratulations!
Omg sameeeee where???
When my dad passed, he looked 98, he was actually 78. When the funeral home was finished, he looked like he was 50. It was an amazing comfort. He didn’t look sick, in agony, scared. Amazing people
The opposite happened to me. Last week my dad died and he died at 47 his bday is actually been today. He died looking his age and the mortician somehow made him look older and wider in the face something was wrong with his nose too. It’s was a difficult experience
that must have been very disheartening, I’m sorry. @@antoniasmith8390
@@antoniasmith8390 that’s devastating. Sorry for your loss. Love and well wishes to you. My dad just turned 50 this makes me want to appreciate him more😥 I’m so attached to my parents i feel like I’d want to die with them too.. no way i could EVER cope wity loosing them tf
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I can’t say the same for when my mom passed the funeral home that had her did a bad job and that’s why I’ve been thinking of going into mortuary science to make families have the experience you had with your dad.
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You do understand that the true affects after death do take place after you die and you face the consequences of the actions you took in life, right?
She’s visibly more interested (in literally every single movement, mannerism, and scene), in SEEMING HOT and DIMURE than she is in describing what she does. This woman very highly fancies herself
Can you talk about testimonies of evil spirits and sigils in the mortuary? Maybe some dead people had tattoos
Unfair if we allow female to bath death male body (when the reverse hypocrit mainstream always b itching s3xism). Men with men too then, esp this is asian female who always complain about men mortician on female corpse.. Fyi many asian nurse photo touch nak d boy in an innap way during circum here
Mainstream & media always whinning if male bath female corpse, yet this female okay if her Male fam member’s corpse been bath touch by female mortician, hypocrisy
I wanted to become a mortician since I was a teenager, but I ended up going into nursing instead (secondary to life events which would take too long to explain). After nursing for almost 20 years, I’m feeling so burned out and seriously considering a career change. I think it’s time for me to go back to school and follow my true calling!
Bravo to this lovely lady, and bravo to the maker of this short video. It was VERY well done. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
What are you thinking of?
My mom looked so beautiful in her casket. I wanted to take a photo but didn’t for fear of judgment. I regretted that for a while, but don’t now because I remember so much more of her than just that day of deep pain.
I have to say I adore your retro style as it suits you very well. You are a credit to your profession.
So sorry for your loss😞 hope that you are doing ok now 🙏 ❤️ 😊
I took a pic of my Mom
From someone who has lost both of my parents, your care and thoughtfulness mean so much. Thank you.
Same for me now! It’s devastating!