• Soup@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    You’d think they could have gotten a better mortician for the job. He looks weirdly stiff, kinda stuffed in there, and his face doesn’t look right(from this angle, anyway).

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      3 days ago

      I’m a former mortician. The pope’s body will be displayed in an open casket for a very long time so it practically needs to be pickled. That level of preservation comes at the cost of the body becoming as stiff as a peice of furniture and the skin having a greyish tone.

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      I’m a mortician and all we have been talking about is how shit of a job they did. We call those pancake hands because they’re flat. They’re also hovering, which is why they look so unnatural. They didn’t use any dye, which is why he’s that horrible color. It’s called formaldehyde gray. I guess maybe dye is left out for some religious reason? But there is absolutely no excuse for those hands.

      We all assume it was done by some old guy who only does embalmings once every 10 years, or however often a Pope is dying.

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      3 days ago

      and his face doesn’t look right

      It’s like they just left him there.