• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
    2 years

    Former mortician here. These aren’t used everywhere or all the time. If your family requests your body be embalmed, all the liquids and semi-solids of your insides will be sucked out of your guts using a hollow spear hooked up to a vacuum. If done right, there should be no liquid left in your body to leak out.

    The funeral homes I worked at didn’t have these. If it was necessary to plug the anus, we’d pack it with a bunch of kapok fiber. It’s like cotton but doesn’t absorb liquid.

    • Lenny@lemmy.world
      2 years

      I have so many questions but I’m high, so, can you just write more about your job please? I’m fascinated.

  • Hegar@fedia.io
    2 years

    Future archaeologists will be left to ponder the ritual significance of this object. Why were so many people buried with this grave good?