Kari. I used to work as a personal stylist and I just wanted to tell you that your presentation here in this video suits you quite well, the hair makes you look youthful yet professional
Hi Kari, the word ' pacemaker' reminded me of a joke that an old man told me once. When he walks on the road and sees a beautiful woman his pacemaker activates and the garage doors open.
Awesome video again, Kari! This was super informative (I have always wondered about the replaced hips, knees, pacemakers, etc, since I was a kid & learned about cremation). Thanks to the guest gentlemen and Kari 🙂
Loved the comment about Newport Beach crematory. I’m from nearby Mission Viejo, the city would not issue a permit for a crematorium so our local Funeral Home had to send their cremation cases 20 miles away to Costa Mesa.
Hello Kari, I would like to tell you that here in Ecuador, South America, where I work, we never cremated with a casket. We also do not use cardboard containers. We enter only the body with its clothes in the crematory. The same thing on the side of the Crematorium for the animals. It must be said that families who request the cremation of their deceased, they do not have to buy a casket, because we provide a temporary one to spend time with their deceased before the cremation. At this time of vigil, the deceased is prepared, dressed and as soon as the vigil is over, we transport the coffin out of sight of the family to place the body on a platform ready to send into the crematorium, under the supervision of the family, if they wish. Thanks for sharing your amazing videos with us.
And the guy in white shirts dad worked in an era of cremation when ppe wasnt even thought about... Be interesting to have his dad discuss cremation times in past
My career has been in the death industry & there were answers to questions I've never thought about. I've only made deliveries & pick-ups at crematories with little to no time to ask questions. Through my experience, crematory operators have only checked toe tags against paperwork to confirm identities of decedents & would not disturb what's in receptacles in any way. The actual handling of remains inside the container has always been the duty of the mortician in CA which might be different in each State.
Bodies do move during cremation. In the process,, they take on a pugilistic stance. Sinew burning causes this to happen. It happens in the beginning. Same happens when people are severely burned. No reason to immediately look in at the beginning. I guess that's why most haven't seen this happen. Love your channel Kari!
Thanks for all the information guys. I was really surprised to say the least that you cremated all with their clothes on. I was expecting them to be without. Also everyone would be in a cardboard box. Thanks!
Thank you so much answering those questions, the sitting up is something I was told my 7th grade teacher because his father was mortician and they lived in a funeral home/ crematory lol 😆 💙 🤣good Halloween stories 🤣
Hello I watch you often and your other channel.as well. I've only commented a couple times though. So appreciate all you do. I have a question , maybe more for Josh Have you ever seen a body sit up when being cremated? Have you seen people be cremated with things like gof clubs, fishing poles? I know it's off the wall questions but I'm asking because I have watched another mortician channel Are You Dying To Know in the UK and they asked a coworker who does the cremation these questions a viewer sent in and the answers were YES! I'm just wondering about Josh's experience .
It took almost 6 hours to cremate my mother in law, five of those were just trying to get her in but she kept coming out. She went kicking and screaming but we got it done at the end.
One our local funeral homes recently placed an ad on INDEED for a crematory operator with starting pay at $11.00 (eleven) per hour. I know the owner but rarely see him around anymore. I think his kids are running it. They also do animals and start out at $200.00. So much for a living wage. I think McDonald’s pays more that that here.
@@wesley815 and when the person wasn’t busy doing cremations, they were required to pick up bodies and vacuum and set up chapel. I’d figure &15 at the very minimum while trading then be closer to $20 after probation. Being a business (retired) guy, my theory is “you usually get what you pay for”. Shameful.
I lived down the street from a funeral home. One night during Thanksgiving night the wind was blowing down wind. And I just about puked it smelled like death from the funeral home. I told the funeral director and he said he’d talk to the guy.
@@DetroitPinkii I sure do Pink. I’ve messed with settings, unsub’d then resub’d, made sure notifications are on and everything. Maybe google doesn’t like me because I set notifications to go to my yahoo mail acct. I’ve changed it back and forth to no avail. It’s ok though. I usually have time to go through my favorites and check them. Have a great evening!
There is a video on Caitlin Doughty's site, "Ask a Mortician" about human composting just legalized in Washington State that actually turns the body back into soil.
Does facing and dealing with death daily affects your attitude towards how you face life? And your own mortality? Can u do a chat on this topic? I read news and sometimes people die and it does affect how I live my life
If you think about it. Next time you pass a Berger King that’s flame broiling, you see the smoke and smell the fat and meat. Carcinogens are polluting the air. Cremation of a body- which is meat,fat and bone is the same thing. Only it goes through a cleaner process of the afterburner. Too bad BK can’t use one for all the drippings!
Do they use smaller retorts for pets? Both of my dogs were small and I requested that they be cremated by themselves and not in a “group”. One was processed by a local funeral home and the other was processed by a specialty animal cremation facility. I was still sitting in the parking lot crying when the person came to pick up my last doggie at the emergency vet. He’d died at home so I bundled him up and took him to the vet to be picked up by the crematory. I’d called the ER vet as I didn’t know what else to do 😢
Is there a reduction in remains if the deceased has a loss of calcium in the bones? Are you allowed to be just wrapped in a cotton sheet without clothing for cremation?
Do you think that the cleaning out of the ovens,crushing of the bones,putting them into a named recepticle will ever be filmed or be overseen by two garantors (for want of a better word) to stop the rumours that families do not get back their loved ones remains! To put minds at rest ...
I don't know about in some parts of the U.S as it varies by facility, but all facilities around me allow the family to watch the body go in and wait til the cemation is over. Also btw a better word would be Validator if you wanted one. But its hard to video anything in a funeral home because the processes like embalming, stuff like that can be seen as bad or improper to some. One story I can recall of a incident is a vet was laid out on a table for identification and a family member posted a picture of him laying with a flag draped across him. The general public attacked (metaphorically) the funeral home for mistreating a vet and was forced to put him in a casket even tho he was gonna be cremated. So I don't know many funeral homes who would be willing to allow that stuff to be filed just for the sake of the public misinterpreting stuff.
i as an young termly ill guy I'm considering cremation option after i pass but unsure if they beable to cremate my body as I'm 7ft 4 tall and around 130lbs ??
@@KaritheMortician Thank you for your kind reply never even thought about if there cut me up good job not tho as never even thught about it just hoped maybe i could be cremated even tho so tall an slim build thanks
On a Death Certificate. It says cemetery or cremated. If Someone is cremated in has be deposited in a cemetery why dont they let you put the name of the cemetery on the Death Certificate ?
@@KaritheMortician is it true that ashes have a tag with it and you can call a number and they can find by the number what crematory or funeral home the ashes came from cuz my sister found some ashes with name of the crematory and they can find out what funeral home it came from
Thank you Kari!! Because I was watching Gdubya channel and someone asked him that and he said they don't and when I Google it it said they don't I was like HOW wouldnt they?? Lol thank you for responding! You're the best! Love Amy
A body will move when it's cremated look at the video on youtube called my daddy's cremation and keep an eye on his left leg you will see it move up a couple of times he is just layed in a cardboard box not a coffin
