Step inside an actual working mortuary - a coffin for Kalvin

[Music] hi I'm Tracy and I'm a mortician and I'm Trish and I'm not welcome to another episode of are you dying to know are you [Music] okay this is all we do if we're picking up from the nursing home hospital or even the residents only because you see still we'll make sure we wrap this is Calvin we transfer them onto the stretcher already and then we have plastic which hospitals will have body bags we use plastic and that's just the same principle as a body bag and it stops flowing fluid or any leakage or anything because I want to transfer we need to put the arm seatbelt on now these are put on tight but not too tight zip open the bag you've probably seen these kind of artists your CF bag exactly the same thing so we always make sure that I will look for on safe protected and coverage so nobody can see what's going on and what I'm going to do is I'm going to lower them into the vehicle and it's a transfer vehicle and is where the transfers to our facilities where we'll put them into the corsage in our watery well I look after my gonna load up Calvin in here there's a lever here which will release the legs and that off to collapse the legs so I have to take the weight of this so when we get bigger bodies we can be quite heavy but you should to over some transfers [Music] now we have a locking mechanism to keep the our trolley locked in place and that's secure now we've got Calvin in there and his paperwork we have to have all be placed up on a little magnet in here and it always stays with the person always have to have a life extinct or form name and we cannot travel without em forms it's illegal to travel without the document with her deceased person so Calvin secure and they're happy he's not going to move we're gonna go back and take him to the more tree and put them into the cold storage ready for preparation okay so now we're going to transfer carbon my deceased out of the vehicle and we're going to prevent to the Moultrie so behind this doors of the mortar II a very sacred place to me in every birth here I'm going to show you it's nothing scary open the door my can say that inside my mom tree okay it is a big room that's the lifter machine up on the hoist there which I'll demonstrate to you on this device here we've got as this is a lifter it's not my table I work on at the moment that's just occupied in the fridge and the cord room through the door there and this is a lifter is where we put the bodies into the racks to wrap raise it up and down I'm just want to show you what we do from unload and Calvin from the stretcher when we transferred onto the table here and then I want to show you how the lifting device works and put Carl in into a coffin so you just have an idea of how the process works and again we've got this if you can actually see in there that's the red lever which is what allow release the legs and also locked away [Music] so I'm going to unwrap our deceased which is Carlin today and I'm going to take really good care of him I need to get him off the stretcher and we need to pull them onto the tree okay we're here safe and sound [Music] now normally there's two people that would do this where we all got a pole and transfer on to the our table because you should not do this on your own so normally we'd have somebody up at the head end and somebody over the leg edge because Carla's obviously very light up walking so we carefully place our arms underneath the back-up plan their edge the bottom and the legs and we do it slightly ahead blocks really important to keep the head in at the head rest o the fluid so it doesn't act cool if he had tips by turn the poles and the scible is the face night it's so fluid to do that semester he had raised slightly in high and what we need to do with this we need to get rid of it and put it back most important thing you need to do with this is clean it after we clean it we disinfect and clean we let that stay a couple of minutes then I'll wipe it down with a disposable cloth wrap it up and place it back into the vehicle I've just took my face mask off so you can hear me obviously because carbon is what a real disease doesn't really have to wear this position impossible what our way every day all the time when I work with them on with dead body it's protecting made from everyday bacteria is that the deceased seven when no one varus's or unknown diseases they may have but today I'll just leave without munching anyway we're gonna carefully unwrap our deceased and with the paperwork that we've checked when we pick to tell the nope you'll remember from another episode about ID in the body and how we have to put wrist tags on if the don't have tags on from the hospital pursue it we picked Calvin up from the nursing home and we push his wrist iPod so now I'm happy Stella IDs Calvin as the correct person paperwork for here's a correct proverb that this is the person I need to prep today for the service that's going out tomorrow [Music]

Channel: Are you dying to know?

Views: 628,181

Keywords: Death, mortuary, mortician, coffin, cremation, slab, corpse, dead, viewing, funeral, funeral industry, dying, decompose, hearse

Id: vhJExjrfN2A

Length: 8min 0sec (480 seconds)

Published: Tue May 19 2020