28 of the Most Bizarre, Creepy or Uncomfortable Situations Morticians Have Been In

28 of the Most Bizarre, Creepy or Uncomfortable Situations Morticians Have Been In
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In the classic 1989 comedy Weekend at Bernie’s, two young guys find their boss’ dead body and, for various convoluted reasons, need to pretend their boss is still alive for a while. The movie’s hijinks include all kinds of funny moments, like getting him to lead a conga line at a party and taking his dead body waterskiing. 

It’s pretty goofy stuff, and not far off from a story told on Reddit, where a guy died and his closest friends went out drinking in his honor. The bar was right across the street from the funeral home, so, once the guys got good and drunk, they marched across the street, grabbed the body of their pal and brought him to the bar for one last drink. It’s the sweetest graverobbing tale I’ve ever heard, and certainly worthy of this collection of stories about weird stuff happening with dead bodies. Enjoy!

PukeonmyfuckingCock . 8y ago Mom was a mortician for a few years before I was born. She didn't really have any crazy stories, but she's mentioned having to try to move hugely obese corpses and how much of a pain in the ass it was. Also, she says the crispy critters (people who died in fires) were the absolute worst due to the smell.
DrKrakken 8y ago Ive been in the body business for 5 years i have a lot of fucked up storys...but ill share this one: I got a call for a pick up at a hospital. The dispatcher said to bring 2 or 3 people because he was around 600 pounds. I get there and look at his paperwork and it turns out this guy was only about 20 years old. And the nurse told me somthing that ill never forget. Не had no congenital illnesses Which means this kid ate so much that got too fat to move bu the
KingTund . 8y ago Not a mortician, but my great aunt and uncle got in a fatal car accident that killed my uncle. My great aunt was presumed dead and when the mortician was driving the hearse with her in it, she woke up in the back and started moaning. Scared the piss out of the guy.
llama_face45 8y ago Not a mortician but I remember hearing about this news article about a woman (Shaynna Lauren Sims) that decided to slash a corpse's face at a funeral home. Turns out that the lady (Sims) is dating the deceased woman's ex-boyfriend.
. 8y ago I once had a guy come in to view his late mothers body, he then proceeded to pull out a flashlight, lift her dress and then check her genitalia. Pretty bizarre...
two_one_fiver . 8y ago | once autopsied a guy whose liver had been COMPLETELY replaced by fat. Like, it was a straight up foie gras situation. And he'd just been walking around like that, right up until he fell down some stairs drunk and broke his skull in like a million places.
. 8y ago Read this as Mexicans of Reddit. Was really confused
minilotus 8y ago Not a mortician but social worker at ER. A woman jumped 12 floors down. Not a pretty sight.
dmtx22 8y ago Not a mortician but a nurse. So I was a brand new nurse working in a long term care facility. Had a patient on hospice that was slowly dying. Took care of him and saw him decline over a couple months time. Patient was expected to pass on my shift, so | was mentally preparing myself for my first death. Patients family member came to my nurses desk to let me know he wasn't breathing. Went to to room to check for vitals and while auscultating, patient relaxed and gasped scaring the shit out of me and
100mz 8y ago Well, me misreading the first word of this title as musicians was certainly a roller-coaster for the first 3 stories.
CONSTANTLY_HOLLERING 8y ago I was in the chapel, and my assistant came out of the back room. Не says to me Have you seen the clit on that corpse in the cold room, it's like a dill pickle!! I asked him, Is it big?. Не screws up his face and says No, it's sour.
DeathFrisbee2000 8y ago A writing professor of mine used to work in small town journalism and decided to interview some folks from the local retirement home to get a close-up view of his town's history. 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. Apparently the mortician had to sit her in
8y ago Heard on the news a friend from my youth had been killed. I was terribly sad for him, he never could escape his demons and it led him down some terrible paths. Came into work a few nights later and there he was face completely bashed in by a rock. This wasn't the first time someone I knew ended up in our morgue, but certainly the saddest.
deruvoo 8y ago The most bizarre happened when I was apprenticing. I worked with a senior funeral director on Sundays, just me and him. I'd been working for about 2 years when he passed away suddenly from simultaneous kidney/liver failure. The most surreal thing was transporting his body after the embalming was done, back to the funeral home where we worked.
aylandgirl 8y ago My ex inlaws were in the death business. They told me a story once about the county attorney whose wife passed away. The family was very wealthy and she had a mouth full of gold fillings. The attorney demanded that my inlaws retrieve the gold from her mouth. This required using a dental drill to drill down her teeth and dig out the gold. My ex father in law complied with the attorney's wishes but was physically ill about having to do such a needless step to this lady.
CudaRavage 8y ago Lady | work with used to pick up the bodies for the coroner. One time they had to collect a woman that was laying in a very hot attic apartment for a couple months. All her liquids ran out onto the floor and dried and when they tried to pick her up she started coming apart like an overly tender turkey. Her coworker sent her to the van to get more bags and when she got back he had finished bagging the lady. Classy. Changed how I think about turkey.
The_Goondocks . 8y ago My father was a funeral director in NY. They had to remove the wall of a house to get the body of an 800 lb man out. For the funeral, the giant casket was towed on a trailer.
naturallyselectedfor 8y ago I may be too late here. I'm a forensic anthropologist and I go to crime scenes sometimes. We recovered a the body of a murder victim after excavating her shallow grave. When I went to roll her over to put her in the body bag, she released gas from her... back end right into my face. At least it was just gas.
. 8y ago Transported a 60 year old woman to the morgue after a severe car accident. She had ran into a large tree headon 75 MPH. Face was mashed in completely. After they xrayed the body, they found a tube of lipstick in her brain. Cause of death was putting on makeup while driving. ie.. Lipstick!
T1yarncrazy 8y ago Not me, but my cousin... he works at a funeral home and helps pick up bodies, do the preservation steps and make up. Anyways. The most disturbing story he told me was about this about 30 year old woman who came into the place and planned out then paid for her whole funeral. Few mornings pass then my cousin gets a call from the boss telling him he needs to go and pick up a body... of that same woman. My cousin asks where the body is, and the boss replied with out back. Turns out the
Kipbikski 8y ago One of my relatives used to pick up bodies for the morgue. While there were plenty of unsettling scenarios involving the bodies themselves, the creepiest thing was him discovering that some acquaintances of his were necrophiliacs. Once they found out about his job, a couple of people actually asked if he'd let them have some time alone with the bodies and made their intentions clear with some innuendo. Needless to say, he refused and those ties were cut immediately.
wan62 8y ago One of my dad's good friends was the son of the local mortician, who later followed in his father's footsteps to run the business. In their 20's they lost one of their buddies. Pub was across the street from the funeral home. After a few drinks they decided to retrieve their buddy from the funeral home, propped him up on a barstool and had one last drink with him. I always thought it a bizarre story but fully expected to see at least one other person post something similar. Kind of a weekend at Bernie's but back
IncendiumAddict + 8y ago My grandfather was a mortician for a bit during his lifetime, and he told me this story of a body he was working on sitting up while his back was turned. Scared the crap out of him, and I think he quit soon afterwards. Turns out it was just some sort of after-death muscle spasm or something like that.
ThrowawayPOOPEY 8y ago Story from a friend of a friend: She (the mortician) met some guy at the bar. They hit it off and she gave him her number. Within a couple of days she finds out that the guy died in a car accident because his body ended up at her place of work. Before the funeral service she receives several calls from an unknown number and whenever she picked up there was no response. Eventually, she got the eerie hunch that it may be ~him~ and proceeded to address him by name. Tells him to pass in peace
ahardt77 8y ago I'm a funeral director. I worked a service where few fights broke out during the visitation and one guy punched another guy in front of the funeral home. There was a pool of blood on our sidewalk that my boss made one of our part-time workers wash off. Had another guy called and asked about removing his head and having it cryogenically frozen. I've also had a couple calls where a woman calls the funeral home and pretends to be the widow in order to get personal/Social Security information. My older co-workers have told me other great/horrifying
watercaged 8y ago I had a friend who was dating a guy who worked in a morgue. One day she finds pictures that he had hidden which showed him having sex with different dead bodies. It's horrifying to think that someone can do this, but it's personally horrifying to think of someone raping my dead body. It's become a personal phobea.
notgay_ 8y ago My aunt works in a nursing home and she said one night they had a young girl in, her first night ever working, and someone died so they had to prepare him but when they had him sat up he released his gases and the newbie nearly died because it sounded like a groan from the dead guy
3rdquartet 8y ago Not me but my cousin. She was driving a hearse for the funeral home that she worked at, but it broke down in a pretty remote area. Basically she was stuck in the Nevada desert in the middle of summer with a corpse for a few hours.

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