Kari another informative video. I have to say after being educated on what happens to a body during an embalming procedure and prep for viewing and the burial, I can’t believe people are more ready to have this done and so against cremation. Everyone that I have known is so against cremation saying that it is so barbaric. I don’t think any of these people have a clue about what happens to the body preparing it for the viewing and burial. When someone goes no make arrangements do they ever ask about the procedure? I know I never have. Gives us all something to think about.🧐
A trocar is an absolute must have! It is a standard tool of the trade. It was very good to mention the child or cranial trocar. You are very thorough and complete in your instructions. I will be glad to hear you announce your careers as a mortuary science school instructor, and owner of your own mortuary enterprise!😅
@@midnightrunner684 it's called an AV plug(anal vaginal) pushing high index fluid in the cavity can cause pressure, this thing that looks like a butt plug will be inserted to ward off leaking Sometimes they just put an adult diaper on you. Glad I'm being aquamated
An excellent video Kari ! People must be educated....The viewing of a loved one is for the living and this is the necessary procedure that MUST be taken for that to happen. As a retired professional, I chose to have my late husband viewed in his bed by the immediate family. He was then taken afterward for cremation. My family saw my husband in his natural death state. He looked like he was sleeping peacefully. Then, after cremation, we had a regular burial at the burial site of his ashes. This is what my husband had requested and I complied with his wishes. I told my children these were my wishes too ! Like I said the viewing is for the living...and, that's Ok, but I chose a different way. People must be educated ! Thank you for sharing this fantastic video....Many blessings to you and your Family. :)
Very interesting! First time hearing about a trocar and what it's used for, thanks Kari! It would be cool to see more of the different instruments and shown what and how they are used! :)
That scared the hell out of me the first time I saw it used and I am sure I winched every time after that. Interesting that the embalmer that I worked with and taught me never did do a brain asperation. It is also used to administer the Cavity Fluid, think you forgot that part cause it exceeded 2 min. LOL We would asperate right after embalming, and then inject the cavity fluid and then would remove the button and asperate again just before dressing and casketing. There were a few times where we had to take a casketed body back and asperate just before a service. Wish they would put a LOVE button cause I so love what you post.
Ryan Hulshizer that did it for me. Time to call my lawyer and get it in writing that I don’t want to be embalmed. Roast me, toast me and toss me. My kids will be glad they don’t have to see me in a casket too.
Hi Kari that is one scary interesting instrument that you use, I'm very interested in the different tools that you use and what they are for. Hope you are well Kari, and hope you had a lovely Easter weekend. Love from Nancy in Scotland x
So, after embalming our insides are basically swiss cheese? Just kidding, I love your videos. Even if a subject makes us cringe a little, you answer questions that we all have.
I was the one suggested you talk about the cranial trocar. Now would you please show the listening audience what an iliac extractor is and what it's used for? Thanks and keep up the good work!
Ah yes, the trocar... the thing that made me wonder if I could ever do mortuary school. Just looking at it, I want to crouch down and cover my abdomen, lol. I was warned that many students faint and some even drop out after they have to watch a trocar be used. It's gruesome to think about, yet a necessary step in the process. I guess it's important to remember that the body that is being aspirated is not alive anymore. Their spirit is in Heaven, their brain no longer functions, and they cannot feel anything.
Hi Kari! I am a huge fan of you and your videos! Who knew there was so much to learn about the funeral industry?! With that being said, I am wondering if you could do a video on organ donation? I know there's a stigma surrounding it but I'm curious to know what the actual process is and what are your thoughts about it (for/against)? Thanks!
@@EarthAirFireWaterSpirit Honestly, I am too just because I had a recent experience with someone passing away that was an organ donor. Maybe it just my experience with that particular hospital but it definitely was not a good situation!
Sheryl Goerner I have to in the past. There is ALOT of money in organ donation and they push for it even when your loved one may have a chance of coming off of life support. They push for you to pull the plug. They are vultures ! It’s disgusting!
@@EarthAirFireWaterSpirit That is the exact same impression I got as well. We hadn't even decided to take him off of life support yet and the staff was already asking us about. (It was my boyfriend who had an undiagnosed heart condition). He ultimately passed away after 6 days in ICU but neither his mom nor I would let them touch him after he was gone.
That and manually installing cavity fluid through the same trocar right after aspirating was part of the job that always seemed to make me cringe a little. Enjoyed the video, as always!
Great job Kari. Very informative! Slaughter, lol! One of those there is a time and a place for everything. Slaughter - embalmer..... those two just don’t go together. You’re right, horribly irony.
This is basically a veterinary instrument that doctors use to depressurize and empty rumens and stomachs, in that many large animals can't belch. Later adopted by embalmers to empty body cavity fluids.
Hi Kari! Thank you taking time to educate us! Very interesting tool! I have a question though, why do you need to put one of those into the brain? Thank you 🙏🏻 Twisted Memaw
Kari Northey Thank you, I was just kind of confused because I was thinking in terms of liquid. Again I really appreciate the time you take to educate all of us.
Kari you do a fantastic job on your videos and I’m sure your work on the deceased is unremarkable but please don’t show me that long rod anymore it gave me chills
Thank you Kari for the video . I can see how that would be used and enter into the cerebral hemispheres. I wonder if this would extract just a sample for testing or all four lobes for some reason before burial or creamation ..? I thank you .
Two things I just wanted to clarify but this video. 1) is this used while the body is cut open? Or do you puncture straight through the skin into the organs? And 2) why do you go up into the brain? Do you remove the brain with the trocar?
I just finished watching the film Mortuary starring the late and great Bill Paxton. In the film, he's the local mortician's son and goes around murdering the living with a trocar.
@@KaritheMortician Thanks for replying! The movie is definitely worth a watch for Bill Paxton's performance alone. It's a low budget B movie, but a very entertaining one nonetheless. Paxton definitely has a lot of fun with his role and goes over the top with it. During the film, the process of embalming is shown. Not in its entirety, but a few of the stages such as aspirating the body with the trocar. I got curious about the process which took me on a search and I landed on this video. Thank you for posting it as it's very informative and educational. I look watching your other videos as well.
I learned about the Patterson troccar from watching the Arnold Shwarzzenegger movie True lies the old torture guru interrogation scene when he was selecting his instruments ever so carefully while striking fear into his victims who ever the actor was that played the roll of Semietrie was very convincing it wouldn’t surprise if this old nut really was a torturer
Wow... I've only had two sips of my coffee, so I wasn't ready for that. I've never heard of that torturous looking Trocar before just now. I just assumed the innards were taken out & washed under running water in a big sink; then put into a zip-lock bag & put back in the emoty belly area of the body. Both ideas are a bit creepy. Can I be cremated immediately after death, so I don't have to go through this? Oh wait.. The autopsy. 😬 "Hands off my bod!"
Yes, everything gets chopped up including the lungs, heart, guts, liver, etc.! Then they suction the brain out! Everything drains into the town sewage system, then that's the same place where water is recycled and goes back to the tap, shower, etc.!!😷
And also to prevent any leakage and make it easier for cavity embalming fluid to get all over. Any urine or such that is in the body could always come out ... not what you want during a viewing!
@@MV-ns9le the very thought of them doing that to one of my loved ones let alone me makes me wretch ans gag. There is no humane or easy way to preform this procedure let along be respectful. Embalming is still barbaric after all these years. Think of them doing that on a newborn baby. I don't like going to funerals and viewing the dead body, all I can think of is this is what was done to them. As was the case with my cousin 2 weeks ago.
Such a weird practice, this preparation of the dead and this embalming if you think of it. I'm glad we don't do this here. I have no need for this manipulation of my dead body. Just put me in the ground and let me become one with the soil.
Very interesting but now I have MORE questions... do u have to suck out a brain? Are u only sucking out fluids from the body or are u sucking out other stuff? More plz🤔
Oh yeah, also, do u have to swizzle it around or do u just have a spot or two that you get kno u hav to target? I'm sure I'll have more q's after I think about it more. Good one Kari!
