December 2011
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“Staring at a skull is like looking at ones own face. Eventually all of our faces...”
– euphoriaofputriddespoilment
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“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in...”
– Susan Sontag
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10 Signs Death is Near →
No one can predict the moment of death. But physicians and nurses involved in end-of-life care know that certain symptoms are usually associated with the body’s shutting down. These signs of approaching death are specific to the natural dying process.
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“Putrefaction is so effective that it destroys the old nature and form of the...”
– Pernety, 1758
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Bljad's All-inclusive Guide to the Mortuary... →
Alternative Title: If you don’t know what a mortician does I don’t want you touching my body after I die.
I’ve noticed this a million times thus far since I joined the internet community, people who seem to think being a Mortician, and going to school to be a mortician suddenly means you’re going to be giving people who have died autopsies.
I’ve ranted about it here!
But now I’m...