Restorative Art: Restoring Dead Bodies- Smashing Skulls 

The funeral director up home that I hung out with as a teenager got a call one night. A young man had run his corvette up under the rear end of a semi. Even the state trooper threw up. They had to jack the trailer up to get him out. Once back at the funeral home the parents asked was there anyway to view him. Small town. My friend got the local beautician out of bed and she helped him go through discarded hair. He had been through a course like this one in Chicago. He worked hours non stop. With reconstruction and placement as well as lighting the parents got their viewing. You morticians and directors are unsung heroes

Hi Keri. Smashing skulls of some people has crossed my mind. Lol. I'll restrain though seeing it has to be put back together. 😃

Many props to all of you. I never realized how much work goes into restoration.

Wow so much involved.

Very informative, thanks for sharing 👍

I have serious respect and admiration for Morticians with what they have to do and the skill involved, along with how emotional it must be sometimes especially with how someone may look coming into your care. Kari, you guys are great.

A very fascinating video!!!!!

Thanks for what these people will doing for our loved ones. Very fascinating.

🌄🌄🌄 Great and Informative..Thanks for Sharing(😊😊😊)

Thank you for another educational video Kari!.🙂

I knew this was going to be good! Wow! I always wondered about that. I'd like to see some model heads they've worked on.

I enjoy your videos

Hi Kari! Thank you for another fascinating video! So interesting! I think I'll have trouble drilling into skulls cos I'll be terrified of causing pain. You've also got me motivated to play with my clay too, so thank you!

Very interesting 🧐

This may be a dumb question, but what if the skull was cracked but the person still had hair? My friend was hit by a train a couple weeks ago and she had an open casket funeral. I’m just so fascinated in the work morticians do now because I was shocked at how good she looked. I couldn’t tell if it was her real hair or a wig though, so I’m curious how/if you work around it

You have to love jig saw puzzles😉

I am so fascinated with everything that has to do with this type of stuff. Do you have to go to college to get a job at a funeral home?

Love these videos,learn such a lot,the clip I have never seen before. Breaking the skulls wasn't easy,taking a piece out must have been challenging! ... Roll on Part 3 ...

Fascinating!!

This is really cool! Tedious but cool. Have you had to reconstruct a skull Kari?

Good stuff....interesting😄

I’m surprised they are not using molymer/polymer adhesives to reconstruct these.

Nice 😺

Very interesting video Kari, just to see how everything is tested so that it can also be more prepared for it to all come together in restoration! So what do you do with a body if you cannot restore it's skull but is do for a wake or viewing?

Seems to me that having small hands to do this would be an advantage. Wish I was 40 years younger, I would go to school to do this kind of work.

It appeared as if most of the students were women. Was that correct?

If a murder victim comes from the medical examiner’s office is it harder or easier to do reconstruction work? Brain intact or out what’s easier ?

Winks, hugs, cheek kisses

Thanks Kari at this point will they let the family in to see the restoration Will they use a wig for the hair. For viewing.

I had to hand make calvarium clamps for my model skeleton "Romeo" who loves to pop the top of his skull off 💀 since you can't buy this stuff unless you're in the industry.

And that was the easy part of the skull.....

I'm really surprised that a uv resin or polymer isn't used to fill in the parts of the head and face Sounds morbid but some people don't have a face left with such tragic accidents

that music .... LOL!

Why not use modeling glue (Krazy glue)

Just put a wig on it.

Duck tape