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Embalmer? I'm not insecure about what I do or what other people assume of me when I tell them. I'm also not going to lie about it if someone asks me about my profession or passion. It just seems that a lot of people are uncomfortable about it. More often, they think I'm joking. Yeah, I've had a lot of potential relationships crash because of this.
Would you be...
| Scared. | 6 | |
| Excited. | 2 | |
| Interested. | 36 | |
| Looking for the closest exit. | 7 | |
| Unaffected. | 22 |
It's really unusual.
I doubt that would have any influence over my affection for a person. It would certainly be a talking point and I imagine my morbid curiosity would overtake my sense of conversational etiquette and you'd have an incessant torrent of questions culminating in my request to visit your place of work and see a dead person fo' real!
OP, what made you want to become an embalmer?
It was like resetting a clock to tick in perpetual motion. Even to this day, it's confusing to finalize who you're doing the service for; the cadaver or their family.
Interesting. Actually like Nora mentioned, Six Feet Under was my first insight into what an embalmer actually does. I think here in the UK it's quite a rare thing because the majority of funerals are closed casket - we don't have that tradition of seeing the body after death.
I'm sort of glad about that. There's something a bit disturbing to me about the way they dress them up, put make-up on them and wheel them out. I think it's better to just remember them how they were when they were alive, not in a taxidermic clown state. Not to detract from what you do, obviously many families want open casket funerals and you clearly get some satisfaction out of it :)
It seems (to me) that an open casket is to give some people relief. Relief that yes, this was that person, just as I've remembered them and always will. Since some of the cadavers used to be sick, a lot of people ignored them during their last periods. Scared to face how withered they've become. Even as far as to say they aren't that someone they knew. But that period is something that shouldn't be avoided in memories of the cadavers because it shows you how hard they've tried. I'm not sure if that makes sense.
Of course - those that request it must have a reason for it. They must want to see the dead body of their loved one and have their family and friends see it too. I totally respect that decision, even if I personally would not make it.
It's just something I find strange and undignified. But that's probably because it's not so much a part of my culture. I wouldn't find any comfort in seeing the dead body of a loved one.
the smell of dead people probably, the way they just don't move or can't, they say so much, yet literally say nothing.
I would be unaffected. To me it does not make you more special or less special, it's just a job that has to be done that some people do. Hopefully, you don't smell like chemicals because that might be a bit of a turn off.
Excited, but mostly interested. The excitement most likely stems from my love for Six Feet Under.
I'd be very interested, given that it's something I don't know a lot about. Relationship-wise, I'd be interested too. And I'd never tire of people asking, "And what does your girlfriend do for a living?" My ex was - at one point - a pawnbroker and I never tired of telling people she "worked in pawn".
But, hmm, an embalmer. Are you really? I mean really really?
I'm all excited now! We have an embalmer on IIN! :D
I would be interested in hearing more!! It's not really something that you hear about people doing that often, unlike my being an IT/programming team leader, so I would definitely want to learn more....and I'm a girl so I have a feeling that the right guy would feel the same
People have to do whatever these days to make a living-at least its better than being some kind of prostitute or whore.---She has a JOB and her own fuckin money.Be thankful she doesnt bother you for CASH or kinds of SHIT.
Awesome! My husband would love you. He is fascinated with morbid jobs. Also, you have pretty good job security.
It wouldn't matter what they do, but that's me. One of societies rarities that doesn't hold people up to some standard because what they do, or who that must make them be, or what they do or how they act inserts them in this category.
Your career doesn't say much about you as a person, in your case I'd render it as smart as I've read a study where 7/100 people would be in a funeral-embalming-or medical examining career, which means their in need, which means they pay.