Wow..quite a complex range of chemicals and reliant on the embalmer's experience to get the best result! Kari..you are like a mixologist (expert cocktail mixer) for the deceased! 😊
I remember there were several brands of embalming fluid when I was a little kid hanging around a funeral home in New York. This is the best show I have seen produced by the best funeral directress in America.
We had a funeral for our uncle today. I feel so much more informed from watching your channel. I find myself looking for things you’ve discussed in your videos. I also watch the funeral directors more closely and a lot of respect for what they do now. I also take photographs during the event and I’m very careful to stay out of the way and be very unobtrusive but I also find the employees of the funeral home see what I’m trying to accomplish and do or say things that make it easier for me. Thank you for educating us Kari!
Absolutely amazing! Have you ever wondered what happens to the millions of gallons of those chemicals soaking into the earth over the years as bodies decompose? 🤔 Thank You Kari for everything you do 🤗
Thank you Kari. I couldn't get those darn pink fluid stains off the porcelain tables and now I know the secret. A clean prep room is a happy prep room.
May sound silly, but how do you know which to use for color? Does a picture of the deceased, when alive, give you an idea of their "tone"? I'd be afraid to make Aunt Midge too pink or yellow :)
I will obviously let Kari reply to you properly but I know that a photo can definitely help you to know what the deceased was like when alive and what general colour tone you're going for. As a very general rule yellows are usually reached for for males and pinks for women but obviously it depends on the individual! X
A good embalmer is able to use their fluids and the dyes in said fluids, not even taking into account actual fluid Dyes, etc... and can find the most beautiful natural color... .no cosmetics needed... maybe some liquid tint..
How much of a decision process goes into selecting fluids in the typical embalming. Is the decision very strait forward in the average embalming? Good video, Kari!
I love your channel. My step-mom grew up in a funeral home and her parents were both funeral directors. My step-sister is an independent funeral director like yourself. I live 700 miles away so your channel answers many of the questions and curiosity’s I have about the industry. My step-sister kindly took care of three of my grandparents when they passed and it was a great comfort to know she was caring for them. Now for my 1st wacky question....are there any funeral industry products that you have used in your personal life? Ex: I thought maybe Dis-Spray might be something used to clean something when nothing else worked in your personal life.
I had at least 2 relatives that weren't embalmed. The immediate family made the decision. There was no public viewing also. I'm leaning toward that option with a Mastercraft Washington Willow priest casket. Ideally I'd like a mausoleum crypt but community mausoleums force you to have an embalming done. So that leaves finding a cemetery that will allow a single or double crypt. I am finding those choices slim. Many don't want to deal with future maintenance and possible vandalism. Cremation for me is a definite "no".
LOL We used dis-spray a lot. I, once used it on large spider in the sink under a head block I picked up. Yes, I girl screamed like a little 5 year old. I don't do spiders, UGH! Luckily, I was alone in the building, or I'd have never heard the end of that. Great video, as always!
@@bassbaritoneguy Nah, I don't think so. I kind of liked it as well. It smelled better than anything else in the prep room for sure. It looks like Windex, but is certainly anything but! LOL That spider got sanitized big time that day, then squashed, of course!
Hi Kari, I understand the need for these chemicals at times but it doesn’t make me like them any more. Living on a farm that depends on groundwater for irrigation, I also am aware our drinking water comes from the same source. Our groundwater is a precious commodity that we, the world has been careless with. From PCB’s, dry cleaning fluids, fuel spills and on and on, we are harming our future generations. Many cities recycle-reclaim and treat their wastewater to be purified and sent back to our drinking water source. 8n all fairness, blood and human waste from embalming also goes in the sewer. Leaking caskets have been contaminated our ground for many decades. That’s why I choose cremation or no embalming.. Thanks for the video.
Great video Kari, Kinda looks like a Dodge Snowball Stand. Lol. It taught me a lot, you need to teach at the embalming school, you have the teaching gift. I hope you ask and get one of your deceased families permission to attend and watch an autopsy be performed. I think they should make that a field trip just prior to graduating embalmers school.
Incredible how many different products have been developed to assist in the embalming process.Kari,is it possible to undo a negative result? For example,change the decedents color again if it doesn't turn out the way you wanted it to?How would you go about that?
Hi Kari, Would you mind speaking to the question asked of a gentleman below. What 'does' happen to the many chemicals that are then laid to rest at the cemetery? Thanks in advance!
I'll take the Sun Tan look please.. lol I got these mid west white arms syndrome. lol, I mean I'm not trying to have to have it used on me anytime soon, but just for future references.
Wow! I hope you have or will have a video on how these are used. All at once? Separately? I’m very curious, even though for me I’m more of an alkaline hydrolysis kinda girl 😄 or a green burial, although if I don’t outlive my husband I’ll probably be direct cremated. 🔥😟 Thank you for these videos. So much content in 2 minutes!
Well, thank u for the "tour of embalming fluids." It seems as tho there are some fluids for different issues in the decedent. Are some chemicals combined? Or how does this work.
Are fluids made by different manufacturers compatible with each other? Is there any oil/water type of risk mixing them together. I'm asking as, for example, I once filled a soap dispenser that wasn't quite empty with another manufacturer's soap and discovered they did not like being put together. The two soaps appearance, texture and smell changed and it was unpleasant to use. Wondering if the same can happen here.
@@stephaniehowe0973 we are so white like ivory they need to use the whole suntan embalming fluid bottle to get us tan lol.omg i have white feet like your picture too i even have a white butt so white that it glows 🤣.
The amount of chemicals is surprising, I never really thought about it. Remind me why we started doing this to our dead instead of letting nature take it's course? I'm all for hanging onto things but maybe trying to defy nature isn't what we should be doing? What are the positives, is it just custom?
Apparently you are not too keen on Jaundial..... I am assuming you were stating it was a jaundice fluid and not calling it Jaundice.... Not much to say about Janundial, eh? It was actually the first Champion Fluid I ever used... and its results are 2nd to none....You should diversify... and talk about other fluids... and maybe actually use Jaundial... no green bodies.. never ever... Just a thought.
Best thing I ever did was pour dodge down the drain. They’re not like they use to be. They no longer make their own fluid. Instead they’re outsourcing it to another company. Dodge has lost all respect with me.
