'I'm a mortuary technician – people freak out when I tell them what happens to organs'

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT BELOW: This nonfiction contains references to death. Mortuary technician Hayleigh said astir radical don't realise what happens to your organs aft a post-mortem examination

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT BELOW. This nonfiction contains references to decease which immoderate radical mightiness find upsetting.

Mortuary technician Hayleigh has fascinated radical by giving a look down the curtains of her occupation - and immoderate bits of accusation person near them truly freaked out.

A mortuary technician is the 1 who prepares, dresses and encoffins idiosyncratic who has passed away, ensuring they are cared for and presented with dignity and respect. Hayleigh appeared connected the Tea astatine Four podcast to speech astir what happens to our bodies erstwhile we die.

Hayleigh, who is known arsenic the Mort Tech connected TikTok, explained her occupation involves "embalming, hairsbreadth and recreational connected their look if they've had trauma injuries". In the podcast episode, she discussed everything from the embalming process, which involves preserving a assemblage by delaying the earthy effects of death, to the challenges she faces.

While determination were galore aspects of her occupation hosts Lauren and Billy were shocked and had nary hint about, determination was 1 which had them perfectly gobsmacked - and that was what happens to the organs aft the post-mortem process.

Hayleigh explained: "During a post-mortem introspection radical look to deliberation that your organs are enactment backmost wherever quality intended. They're not. They're each enactment successful a objective container backmost wrong your torso, and your thorax cavity and your stomach/abdomen, and you're sutured backmost up. So your brain's not successful your head."

The podcast hosts were visibly shocked, and Lauren remarked: "Your encephalon is successful your belly." And Billy added: "Oh my God, that's truly freaked maine retired a small bit." When asked why, Hayleigh explained: "Because erstwhile you commencement cutting and taking things retired it's not gonna spell back. You're conscionable going to wobble. And if things commencement to purge out... It's champion to support it each contained."

And successful the remark conception radical confirmed they had nary thought this happened. "I could person lived my full beingness perfectly good not cognize this information," said 1 person. Another commented: "This was accusation I did not request oregon privation to know. Interesting but present questioning each ceremonial I've been to and if they had a post-mortem oregon not."

However, idiosyncratic other wrote: "Did radical earnestly deliberation everything was each enactment backmost unneurotic again?"

Hayleigh antecedently explained that portion she would ne'er stock idiosyncratic duties astir the deceased, she has the afloat enactment of her colleagues and manager to "educate radical people connected the magnitude of genuine attraction that goes into looking aft people's loved ones".