What's In An Embalming Kit?

[@lockettodd6639]

"You're pulling it to shove it, pulling it to shove it!" In reference to a drain tube. Kari, you are helping so many of us to accept death and its aftermath, without so much dread. The more we know, the less we will fear the whole process. Thanks!

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you!!

[@marytempleton335]

Very interesting. It is amazing how much work goes into embalming and preparing a loved one. Thank you Kari!

[@KaritheMortician]

You are welcome!

[@michaelm5601]

Another kindred fellow not afraid but curious. This was the occupation I missed. Now retired glad for the one I chose brought the same sort of comfort to many. peace

[@KaritheMortician]

:)

[@robertganley313]

You are a natural teacher, Kari!

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you!

[@yummymummy63]

Such an interesting video again Kari. I was wondering in training do you have access to anatomical mannequins (dummies) to learn from or do you train purely on the decesed who have donated their bodies? If such models existed, it would be great for you to demonstrate more? All the best and looking forward to your next video.

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you!!

[@suzf5045]

Hi, Kari! Thank you so much for the informative video as always. It always brings a smile on my face when I get a notification that you have uploaded.💛 Also, you must have filmed this as a live on a recent Wednesday morning, hence the greeting at the beginning of your video, but it’s late/early enough that tired as I am, I totally freaked, jumped up and ran for my shower thinking that I was late for work haha (I work at a bakery and start at 3:45 am) lol. Luckily I double checked before I actually hit the water. Anyway, sorry for blabbing. Thanks for being amazing🤗

[@KaritheMortician]

This was a while ago actually in a student group I run :)

[@Sssssssslf]

hahaha that's hilarious! Bless you lol ..also 3.45 😵 that's killer! i used to do Nightshift many years ago and oh man I do not miss those days!

[@THICCpikachu]

I've been binging your 2 min videos, love them!

[@KaritheMortician]

Aww thank you!!

[@pwillieb]

This was a fascinating video. Many of the devices displayed are not self explanatory, and listening to how they are used (and the circumstances under which a particular device would be used) was really interesting. Thanks!

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you!

[@stevew3196]

Interesting instruments and fascinating to watch your facial expressions as you rolled through the procedure in your mind to work out which instruments to pull out of the kit and the order you'd use them! Loved the sound effects too 😁

[@KaritheMortician]

Thanks!!

[@joemelvyn2588]

Why do I like ,Kari? because you are a perfectionist!!!!!!!!!! Love the lesson. Video

[@KaritheMortician]

Aww thanks!

[@joemelvyn2588]

Let freedom ring....... Have a happy&restful Memorial Day!!!! Kari

[@KaritheMortician]

Thanks

[@candiceyoung8244]

I think its absolutely fascinating to learn what each of these tools are used for. So thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Thanks for the video 😊

[@KaritheMortician]

You are welcome!

[@cleverusername6233]

Thanks for another great video Kari!

[@KaritheMortician]

Thanks for watching!

[@pattipowell7788]

So interesting! Thank you for making it real and making it all manageable!

[@gabrielle.sholes]

I had lunch with Bob Mayer back before I graduated, such a sweet guy!!

[@KaritheMortician]

Nice!

[@yvonnelam6633]

Wow. Embalming is really professional job! Thank you for the video!

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you!

[@nova264]

Very interesting kit and the explanation of each tool.Thanks!.

[@KaritheMortician]

Glad you liked it!

[@jwmarlowe4456]

Great Video Sunshine!!! very informative!!! 💚💛❤

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you!

[@countrydawn418]

Great video. Tell me: how many embalming can you perform in a average week.

[@KaritheMortician]

You could do 5 a day if necessary or more

[@charlotte_stevens]

I have a morbid curiosity about all things funeral director related 😬

[@KaritheMortician]

It is common

[@charlotte_stevens]

@@KaritheMortician thanks, Kari! You're the best! Thank you for all you do! 💕

[@sharondalessandro173]

I did to and took a job as a removal tech with a bad funeral home the guy was a creeper it was horrible they had no respect for. The bodies I had nightmares for weeks it broke my heatt

[@charlotte_stevens]

@@sharondalessandro173 OMG, Sharon, I'm so sorry to hear about your horrible experience! 💕🤗 that's one thing I admire most about Kari - I'm sure she treats the deceased with the care and respect they deserve 💜

[@TheDarkOne_Rumplestiltskin]

Same

[@annking8633]

Thank you for sharing this information. Fascinating.

[@KaritheMortician]

You are welcome!

[@ModernMuse713]

I lovedvthis video. I am a medical technologist and I wonder about the state of the blood.. in my mind it would all be clotted...but I know from experience blood can hemolize...and also have clots. You are a great teacher

[@squalli1297]

That was a great review for me. I've retained a lot since graduating from mortuary college, but then I've lost a lot of terminology throughout 40 years. I can identify things as Doo-hickeys but forgot their names-Lol. I remember my supervisor telling me after graduation that I would be learning "his" way of embalming methods & running a FH & to forget what I've learned in school. I've actually learned from many others. It's ironic how theories taught in schools are so different of what we've learned in most professions.

[@KaritheMortician]

Yes so true!

[@wrathofmohawkindiansbloodi5859]

Also the fact that kari so cute makes even the most morbid things explained by her more tolerable. And I hate autopsy s I understand they have there place but I had extremily bad experience with a medical examiner and a autopsy that should not have been done many years ago. I don't go for dead bodies at all but the way she explains it makes it just a little but better.

[@KaritheMortician]

Thanks

[@danlindberg4849]

This was a great "class"! A those 'tools', who would have thought! I did call my dentist's office after this video and cancel. Kari, you do remind me of my dentist and I know she must have one of those kits hidden in her office!

[@KaritheMortician]

lol :)

[@danlindberg4849]

@@KaritheMortician You do that for me!

[@thaimays6933]

The C curve needle reminds me of the needle that you use to sew in weave

[@KaritheMortician]

Interesting!

[@karenbrunette6314]

How many times are your c or s needles used before you replace them ?

[@KaritheMortician]

Many years

[@ms.martiegallego8834]

That item looks like a popsicle stick !! LOL !! LUV YA !! OMG !! I go blank very often, when I'm talking to someone I will go blank with a word that I would use very often , and it drives me nuts !! As I get older it happens more often . I enjoy learning from You, It is so interesting, and You should be teaching in a college !!bayou would be a excellent professor !!

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you!!

[@klk1900]

I had an attending that use to remind everyone. Always Cut down the street, NOT across the street! On a CABG parachuting grafts etc.

[@sparky0803]

Thank you, interesting! Hope you’re doing well!

[@KaritheMortician]

Thanks, you too!

[@smonroeh]

Cool. Though the camera was reversing everything 🤨

[@KaritheMortician]

Yes it was

[@doccarson63]

Pull open drawers in the prep room and show them all the curved needles syringes Trocars and body putty.

[@KaritheMortician]

:)

[@antoineinniss5586]

hi Kari. commenting from the Caribbean where i reside. can you share, how much should a trade embalmer charge per embalming? thank you

[@peggykhune6420]

I like how you explain the things that you use

[@peggykhune6420]

Thank you

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you!

[@bruceliggett8036]

Me too, love seeing all her “crappy” instruments lol

[@petertropp7676]

The sign behind you is backwards???

[@KaritheMortician]

It is because the camera inverts the image

[@anitanewman9529]

I really enjoy your videos. This is off topic but I gotta know, what color is your nail polish? Love it!

[@KaritheMortician]

I am not sure the brand even :) Sorry this was recorded a while ago.

[@scarlettnelms2006]

On a tissue donor or autopsy why can they not glue and staple instead of suture on the legs etc? Is the skin just to fragile?

[@KaritheMortician]

It is not fragile but the tighter the closure the better

[@jasondavis7613]

Where can we purchase embalming kit? Mortuary student

[@joncampos5551]

12:57. I’m not an embalmer so this is all hella interesting. So that device your holding won’t tear the artery, I guess. Just by looking I would think so but I guess the wall is much stronger than it looks.

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you

[@leonardstark4806]

Kari, don't you ever use plain dental floss for suturing and white twine for the tying-off of arteries and lg veins?

[@KaritheMortician]

You can use dental floss for cosmetic stuff

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Very interesting thnx.

[@KaritheMortician]

Thanks!

[@joemelvyn2588]

Like your nail polish today. Different color.

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you

[@1976moy]

Can I ask please do you have to use multiple drains in an autopsied/unautopsied body?

[@KaritheMortician]

THe vessels are all cut so they drain out in many places.

[@1976moy]

Thank you. x

[@lisacomic6766]

Kari, it’s hard to tell perspective via video, but how big are arteries? Some of this instruments looked rather large! This was a fantastic idea. Makes me want to embalm someone. 😀

[@KaritheMortician]

Good question!

[@KaritheMortician]

Depends on the body but a pencil or sightly smalled in diameter

[@pig5267]

The words on the book title, on your shirt, and on the “Home tablet” behind you are all inverted. Is it the camera?

[@KaritheMortician]

Yes must be

[@Rgb414]

Great videos ☺️

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you

[@JamesZubah]

Where to buy an embalming kit for a friend of mine in the field?

[@KaritheMortician]

Dodge company

[@ignatiusletwaba2816]

Hi Kari where i need that embalming kit My name is Ignatius from south africa. Please i need your help

[@KaritheMortician]

You need to order it through a funeral home from an instrument company like Dodge

[@josephvargas2992]

That instrument is called separator as per text book.

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you

[@danielburks]

Where could i find an embalming book at kari

[@KaritheMortician]

You can order them online like amazon

[@danielburks]

@@KaritheMortician thank you so much

[@ghosty426]

Interesting subliminals here...the camera and the EMOH sign and the wedding ring on the right ring finger??? Happy Memorial Day. Lest we forget.

[@KaritheMortician]

This was a long time ago :)

[@ghosty426]

@@KaritheMortician Yeah but those embalming tools aren't antiques. Embalming Engineers haven't come out with anything better yet.

[@Rgb414]

Why is all the text on the books etc that you are holding up backwards. Look at the sign behind you.

[@sparky0803]

Camera

[@KaritheMortician]

It was a facebook live video so i think that is why

[@joegarcia4157]

This video made me wanna go to mortuary school !

[@KaritheMortician]

Yeah!

[@snowbunny1066]

I always thought all my life I want to be embalmed. The more I've thought about it I think I just want to be put in the casket and do a graveside. I know I'm dead and I wont feel anything yet in the back of my mind I keep thinking, I dont want to be a spirit and see that happening to my body. It takes a special kind of person to do what you do. I admire your strength to do so. Do you always have to go in the neck?

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you!

[@brendaharrington2201]

She tries to be funny,but I prefer prof

[@JBSDIVERSIFIED]

That crooked tube is connected to a canular. It's an injection tube.

[@KaritheMortician]

:)

[@nicoleperron3315]

Your curved needle reminds me of an upholstery needle. I'd like to know if the tips of the needles are triangular like a fur needle, on a fur needle it's so you don't tear the skin.

[@KaritheMortician]

INteresting

[@frankwhite7607]

Very strong woman I couldn't do your job and then go home and eat dinner with my family,just seeing blood and touching a Dead body will have me bothered mentally...

[@KaritheMortician]

It is hard to imagine

[@FoundElement]

Thank u 🙏🏾

[@KaritheMortician]

You are so welcome

[@ericdale4641]

Later this week, Kari maybe called to the one occasion where she needed her embalming kit only to remember to her horror on scene she left it on her coffee table.

[@KaritheMortician]

Exactly lol

[@francisjohnson665]

Interesting.

[@KaritheMortician]

Very!

[@bruceliggett8036]

I’m pretty sure I know what “cot-in” is. 🤗

[@KaritheMortician]

:)

[@michaelm5601]

Well I must be in the club. I am watching this video while eating a bowl of pasta…..

[@conorwinston6205]

Same here. Knew I had crossed an invisible line when I could enjoy dinner while watching a new segment.

[@KaritheMortician]

Yes!!

[@wrathofmohawkindiansbloodi5859]

I don't go for dead bodies at all but I will say this is I ever died and somehow came back to life in a funeral home and saw kari standing over me id think I'm in heaven with in the presence of such a cute women in her natural habitat.

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you

[@joncampos5551]

This was the bomb. So I guess the arterial wall won’t get ripped by that large cannula. Interesting.

[@KaritheMortician]

Thanks!! No you choose one that fits in it

[@joemelvyn2588]

what Zodiac sign are you,Kari?

[@KaritheMortician]

Cancer

[@nicolerodanhisler3899]

Hi Kari how are you

[@nicolerodanhisler3899]

Happy belated mother's day

[@KaritheMortician]

Great!!

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you

[@alanritchie9781]

Got to warn you now? I plan to scream in pain? While your doing this to me.

[@KaritheMortician]

:)

[@alanritchie9781]

@@KaritheMortician love you girl.

[@joncampos5551]

I’m terrible at chemistry , that’s why I was afraid to go to embalming school.

[@KaritheMortician]

:) So was I!

[@alanritchie9781]

First thing is to make sure they are not dead? To begin with?

[@alanritchie9781]

Hey? George Washington was purple to black when Matha Washington finally buried him?

[@KaritheMortician]

Yes its pretty obvious

[@jamesweingart852]

Kari I am shocked,. You keep saying draining from artery instead of the veins. embalmers always inject in the arteries and drain from the veins unless.you do a heart tap with a trocar.

[@KaritheMortician]

I will have to watch this back to see. Yes we inject the artery and drain from the vein. I may have been misspeaking.

[@biarritz84]

Have a blessed weekend 🤗 Hugs

[@KaritheMortician]

Thank you!

[@ComandoesOutdoors]

😎🤟

[@KaritheMortician]

:)

[@alleycat1117]

Pinchees???

[@KaritheMortician]

?

[@alleycat1117]

@@KaritheMortician LOL You called the Homostats "pinchees".

[@randyfritz2094]

Be be curious about something dosen't make you morbid, morbid is when iy is the ONLY thing you think about....

[@KaritheMortician]

So true

[@walterfink9782]

Bodies not included. Please do not try this at home. If you have been trained and have experience in this field, remember all bodies are extra. All bodies are dead, unless proven alive, by a mortician. If you've worked in a circumcision ward in a hospital, you know the pay is bad, but the tips are great. Much better money can be made, as a mortician and even an embalmer. Humans only.

[@KaritheMortician]

Yes they are

[@Decgyrrl]

All I to say is: mommy🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️😱😱😱😱

[@thaimays6933]

You're not scared looking somebody's head

[@KaritheMortician]

Nope

[@thaimays6933]

That looks like a tongue depressor or popsicle sticks

[@KaritheMortician]

:)

[@saul_tea9989]

A vacuum..

[@KaritheMortician]

?

[@marilynjohnson8583]

Tissue forceps

[@KaritheMortician]

Yes

[@casketbier151]

Can you not afford a hair do? (Or) at least a brush???

[@KaritheMortician]

thanks for watching

[@joemelvyn2588]

Kari, maybe you need to hydrate.

[@KaritheMortician]

Why?

[@joemelvyn2588]

@@KaritheMortician When you seemed confused at times.

[@brendaharrington2201]

She is a terrible teacher.

[@KaritheMortician]

You seem to like to watch and learn

[@brendaharrington2201]

She is very 😴 boring

[@KaritheMortician]

Thanks for watching...yet again