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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  • @franziska919 says:

    I feel like you could turn this into the coolest Netflix series of 2019

  • @gachawatching1715 says:

    Miranda talking to dead body: Your hair looks pretty
    Dead Body: Thanks!
    Miranda: Aw Hell naw

  • @rileyfreeburn4843 says:

    We all need to ask ourselves why are we watching this

  • @virudshigaap5558 says:

    she’s in a business that everyone’s dying to get into.

  • @emmydon62 says:

    this is what self-quarantine has done to my recommended

  • @shuttersnap3798 says:

    Is no one gonna talk about the fact that she has a cup literally labelled “EMBALMING FLUID”

  • @Destinyrose1 says:

    “They haven’t talked back yet” girl i hope tf not

  • @avaao9356 says:

    IMAGINE driving home with a dead body in the backseat I-

  • @elijahcaldona7690 says:

    I like how she enters the casket room like she’s doing a Vogue 73 Questions.

  • @noeescobar5274 says:

    the topic:💀🔪💉
    the energy:🤩🍭🌸

  • @katm5903 says:

    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.

  • @EyalNahal says:

    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.

  • @SnowFamilyOf4 says:

    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.

  • @jessicacorbin3111 says:

    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

  • @madihaleigh says:

    I’m enrolling into mortuary school in the fall of 2023. I love this video so much! Very fascinating 🥰

  • @patrickcooper209 says:

    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

    • @antoniasmith8390 says:

      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

    • @expyres says:

      that must have been very disheartening, I’m sorry. @@antoniasmith8390

    • @smollilbean says:

      ​​@@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

    • @shaynewheeler9249 says:

      😢😢😢😢😢😢

    • @latasha-mg8xn says:

      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.

  • @refinery29 says:

    Want to learn more about the death industry? Check out “We Transform Human Remains Into Soil For a Living” on Refinery29: https://youtu.be/DfnJ8XZtQ1U

    • @realemonful says:

      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?

    • @horustrismegistus1017 says:

      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

    • @areyou5958 says:

      Can you talk about testimonies of evil spirits and sigils in the mortuary? Maybe some dead people had tattoos

    • @reverseoblationrun says:

      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

    • @reverseoblationrun says:

      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

  • @tegridyfarms9972 says:

    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. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @puggynugz922 says:

    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.

  • @amycrowe8243 says:

    From someone who has lost both of my parents, your care and thoughtfulness mean so much. Thank you.

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