“After they X-rayed the body, they found a tube of lipstick in her brain.
Cause of death was putting on makeup while driving.”
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Updated 4 years ago,April 13, 2021
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Adrian Clark
After they X-rayed the body, they found a tube of lipstick in her brain.
Cause of death was putting on makeup while driving.
Transported a 60-year-old woman to the morgue after a severe car accident.
Adrian Clark
She had run into a large tree head-on 75 MPH.
Face was mashed in completely.
After they X-rayed the body, they found a tube of lipstick in her brain.
Cause of death was putting on makeup while driving, i.e., lipstick!
medicgenius
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Had a corpse sit up on one of the gurneys while mid-conversation.
Was an EMT that got access to bunch of places and experiences cause I am me.
Hanging out in the morgue picking the brain of the guy on shift during graveyard at Martin Luther.
Had a corpse sit up on one of the gurneys while mid-conversation.
He just looks at me and says they do that sometimes.
Toshogutk421
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On a pathology rotation at the county medical examiners office in medical school.
This included some site visits.
We got called to a house that had been reported to have a horrible smell coming from inside.
Cops had found the owner who had died three weeks prior, in the middle of summer.
Did the autopsy that afternoon in a special containment room.
Body was absolutely full of all manners of insect life.
Maggots, beetles, flies, roaches, everything.
The smell was horrendous.
MrGogomofo
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I kept hearing what sounded like breathing…fresh body brought in and was releasing gas.
Bizarre one was piecing a guy back together after he committed suicide by gunshot to the face.
Family wanted an open casket.
We ended up getting a letter of complaint from other members of the family for the open casket.
darkerthanmysoul
5.
Dead lady grabs the guys wrist….He lets out this scream and bolts for the door.
Not a mortician, this comes from my mother back when she was a teenager.
Guy she knows takes a job with the local funeral home.
He works thegraveyard shift, all was well for the first few months.
Dude is often weirded-out at work, claims that the building is haunted.
They pick her up, guy is freaking out, says he has a bad feeling.
He goes about his work, still a little freaked out.
Forgets his car, runs all the way home.
Turns out, old lady wasnt dead, hospital got it wrong (hooray 1950s medicine).
She woke up at the funeral home and scared the ever-loving hell out of the assistant.
He quit the next day, said he would never set foot there ever again.
CylonsInAPolicebox
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Grimcupcake
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When they tried to pick her up she started coming apart like an overly tender turkey.
Lady I work with used to pick up the bodies for the coroner.
Changed how I think about turkey.
CudaRavage
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The gun inside her vagina started firing during cremation.
We picked up a suicide on a major holidayThanksgiving or Christmas, I cant remember.
Took her back to the funeral home.
Undressed her and had to wait for medical examiner.
Family decides to cremate.
We had dressed her for a viewing, everything was normal.
Later that day she was ready to be cremated.
I put her in, started the machine, and went back inside.
I had to embalm someone else.
About an hour in I heard like five loud pops.
First thought was a pacemaker, brain stimulator, something I had missed.
I let it finish, swept it into the tray.
And a fucking small hand gun came out.
Now I had seen all of her….Seriously where did she have that at?
The only spot is inside her vagina.
The question is why.
Its been 10 plus years and Im still WTF.
doomlite
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Observing the corpse, her exposed womb appeared to be giving birth.
Many adult beetles were scuttling over her pubic bone and into the cradle of her pelvis.
Then I began my extraction.
It was a drug-induced suicide which encapsulated the tranquility of her and her childs death.
VelvetDreamers
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It was the most incredible and shocking and awful thing Ive ever seen in my life.
She died quite suddenly and Id always heard that bodies can move and breathe after death.
Suddenly she started gasping.
She started doing agonal breathing, a completely last-ditch brain stem reflex to revive herself.
I thought it was just gas at first.
Then she kept doing it.
Pinked right up, normal heart rate.
It was the most incredible and shocking and awful thing Ive ever seen in my life.
I wish someone had warned me this was possible.
When the hospice nurse got there, she said that dying infants often practice death and die several times.
Our daughter incurred some brain damage from this, not that it was an issue in our case.
She ended up dying and reviving herself with agonal breathing one more time before she finally passed.
The process took eight hours.
I saw this with my own eyes and still dont believe it.
smutsmutsmut
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There he was, face completely bashed in by a rock.
Heard on the news a friend from my youth had been killed.
Came into work a few nights later and there he was, face completely bashed in by a rock.
This wasnt the first time someone I knew ended up in our morgue, but certainly the saddest.
Wackydetective
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The girl unfortunately froze to death in the carriage in an upright, seated position.
One of his interviews was an ancient, retired mortician who told him a rather interesting story.
Shortly before 1920, two teens were going to a school dance in a blizzard.
The carriage they had taken got stranded and the boy went for help.
The girl unfortunately froze to death in the carriage in an upright, seated position.
DeathFrisbee2000
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I work with the dead (procure eyes and corneas for transplant).
Just his face, nothing else.
Lots of murder victims, gunshots, car accidents, even one train accident.
But never a dull day.
batheinsriracha
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Nothing worse than dead ass.
To set the scene, a family called in that their mother had passed in her apartment.
Third story, narrow halls and no elevators.
Anyways, she goes to pick up the body to take back to the funeral home with an assistant.
The body started letting out farts straight into my friends face.
Tl;dr Nothing worse than dead ass.
sweetoklahome
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My dad goes to pick up the body and its human soup.
My dad is a mortician.
The worst by far is the human soup guy.
I dont remember how long he was in the bath before someone found him.
My dad goes to pick up the body and its human soup.
The hot water constantly running and the amount of time cause his body to turn to mush.
He said the smell was the worst he ever smelt.
mrsluzzi13
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When youre holding the persons arm up, digging around near the tendons, sometimes their arm will move.
It happens a lot, but I still get momentarily terrified when the person grabs me.
Needless to say, its not a one-artery, low formaldehyde job.
Whenever theres a young person on the table is sad.
The degree of decomp can lead to a lot of difficult nights.
The smell alone can really get to you.
The thing that always spooks me, though, is when Im raising an axillary artery.
There are a lot of tendons and such in there, as well.
When youre holding the persons arm up, digging around near the tendons, sometimes their arm will move.
It happens a lot, but I still get momentarily terrified when the person grabs me.
Earl_of_Phantomhive
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My brother told me a story of when one of his friends was morticians assistant.
One time he had to work on a guy who had shot himself in the head with a shotgun.
He said the guy kinda looked like Sid fromIce Age.That wasnt the worst, however.
The worst part is how he felt about the whole situation.
My brother said he quit that night.
Hi-MetalAlien
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I worked as an autopsy lab assistant at a local medical examiners office on the night shift.
Interesting job, so ask away.
Now v and that was a fun bag to venture to prep and X-ray for autopsy.
A suicide via crossbow was pretty cool, as you really dont see that every day.
The most interesting was a murder via katana.
We joked about a master ninja hunting the city for weeks after.
They tend to burst everywhere when you cut them open too.
Lots of children and people that were clearly failed by society.
rhugor
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But you get used to it.
Babies just look like theyre sleeping.
Coworker unknowingly picked up his own estranged son who had overdosed in a car.
Picked up a four-year-old boy in Batman pajamas.
Wont ever forget that.
That one was the worst….
Ive noticed an uptick in youngteen suicidesin the last year.
Let them know theyre loved.
Im tired of picking up dead bullied girls.
Whaddupmuhglipglop
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She was slippery, like her skin was greased.
I lost my grip and dropped her and her head smacked into the floor.
One day we had to get this woman who died during the night.
She must have been 420 pounds.
As I was the young guy, the experienced orderly said that I had to take the head.
This woman was gargantuanly fat.
She was also slippery, like her skin was greased.
I lost my grip and dropped her and her head smacked into the floor.
Kiwi_bri
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His autopsy was like opening a disgusting pinata.
My cousin works for funeral home that embalms the bodies.
They found him after there were so many complaints about the smell emanating from their house.
- A bloater, body of a recent high school graduate.
He was found in a shallow part of a river and he was so pale and full of water.
Joe loved to eat anything inedible.
His autopsy was like opening a disgusting pinata.
reignengine
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The dogs had eaten all of the skin off of her head.
They also ate her breasts and the implants from her breasts were on the floor.
I spent some time picking up bodies for the medical examiner.
There are many stories, some of my own and some those who I worked with.
One which is usually popular is that of a woman who died on her own in the reservation town.
We arrived and the cop on the scene was quite disgusted with the place.
He was looking forward to be deployed back to Afghanistan to get away from this town.
The house when we arrived was an older house with several stories.
The fence outside had been driven through by a car at some point.
It was a night, of course.
We entered the house and it was a complete mess.
She was obviously a bit of a hoarder.
Ive seen much worse hoarders in this job, but she was on her way there.
Probably hardwood underneath as it felt so much solid, but tough to say for sure.
The second floor was up a spiral staircase.
And she was upstairs.
Before we went up there the cop told us that the dogs had got her a little bit.
We worked our way up the spiral staircase to the door that he had indicated she was behind.
When we opened the door there was a body sitting in an office chair facing the door.
However, it was a skull on top of a body.
The dogs had eaten all of the skin off of her head.
They also ate her breasts and the implants from her breasts were on the floor.
She had several small dogs; they had started eating each other before her.
So there was bones from at least oneprobablytwo dogs scattered around.
The guy I was with started freaking out a little bit.
It was a fairly disgusting site, well beyond the average call that we went to.
Youre trying to figure out how to get her out of the chair.
She came crashing to the floor and the blisters burst.
It was now a horrible mess of oozing pus.
We dont generally bring that up staircases at all really.
We set up the body bag and loaded her in.
Of course some of the fluids and whatnot got on the outside of the body bag.
We loaded her onto the stretcher and carried her out of the house.
She stank up the minivan all the way back to the city.
EverlastingBastard
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We had to cut a hole in a basement wall to get a large body out.
It was by birthday last year and I was on call.
I meet up with a coworker and we get to the house about 30 minutes later.
pulls us aside and tells us the guy is in the basement, hes 68 and probably 300 pounds.
So there are just 3 employees of the funeral home and our M.E.
The two older guys go up front and I take the back with my coworker.
The first four stairs go pretty well, but we know the back wheels are about to go up.
We made it maybe two stairs before his body shifted on the cot and he started sliding back.
We brought him back down and ended up calling the fire department.
After a while the chief came down with a Sawzall and told us that were making a door.
I showed up to the fire station that day with five pizzas and a case of beer.
TLDR; We had to cut a hole in a basement wall to get a large body out.
stevenashattack
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The dispatcher said to bring two or three people because he was around 600 pounds.
I couldnt make this shit up.
DrKrakken
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His face stretched with his splatted skull, making it seem like Looney Tunes.
Im a mortician for the Army.
What made it so creepy was how far the skin could stretch.
His face stretched with his splatted skull, making it seem like Looney Tunes.
The other was just a baby we found.
I learned that day that all dead babies are treated as homicides.
Learning that just gave me the chills and didnt want to go near the table.
