Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Preserved For a View

Utter repulsion. On watching what goes on behind close doors of the embalming room on the telly. Revulsive on how the lifeless loved one is being violated so nonchalantly. Organs removed, soaked in formalin, the blood suck out to be replaced with more formalin then the organs are bagged and stuffed into the empty body cavity. Sewn up dressed up, made up, to look good for the viewers and to withstand the duly accorded religous rites. Can I say no to embalming?

2 comments:

stay-at-home mum said...

No embalming = no wake
coz if not the body will rot and smell.
Guess this is one of those things that we better not know too much about!!

iml said...

SAHM:
Ignorance is Bliss. Wish I had never watch that episode.