Miss Post Mortem is a Mortician, aesthetician, costume/ theatrical make-up specialist, and Baker, who brings care and dedication to her craft of transforming loved ones's experiences with their dead, through skill and heart.
We talk aaaallll about death.
This needs ALL the content Warnings, throughout. For mature audiences only. Explicit depictions, mentions of violence, We include many things gruesome, graphic, gross, shunning, mutilation, organ harvesting, What ARE embalmers willing to do for families vs, what's legally and ethically off-limits, trans-rights and changes in law over time.
In this episode, including almost 45 minutes of bonus content specifically for Halloween. we speak candidly about: Death and funerary practices as art, spiritual calling, and sacred trust. We go deeeeep into hard topics that relate to all things that happen as the body breaks down, we pull apart the sinew of stereotypes surrounding mortuary practices, depictions of embalming technique, the weirdly funny things that come up or get covered up,.
Never ask a mortician about the funerary N word. relating goth sensibilities to her work, practices from around the world, Learning on an apprentice program, and continuing education at movie special effects trade shows, and what muppets she'd be.
You can email her questions directly at misspostmortem at gmail dot com or find her as MissPostMorten
Intro Music, Irish Trad tune: The Micky Dam- guitar instrumental by Richard Mandel
of the Jammy Dodgers, https://thejammydodgers.com/Richard_Mandel.html
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