Dealing With Maggots In The Funeral Industry | Little Miss Funeral

[@lindsaesimmons3913]

I am a simple goth. I hear a woman talk about bugs and death and I melt.

[@garycurry4600]

Very professionally handled, and I was today years old when I learned about using hairspray to get the wings sticky! Thank you for, respectfully, sharing your experiences.

[@megaladonrockband4855]

You are so honest it’s refreshing. I can’t imagine the things funeral directors see. May God Bless you for the work you do.Good tip for killing flies! I will try that in the summer !

[@mswitter1]

You did a great job explaining a disgusting but necessary subject. Well Done!

[@tacoqueen121]

Omg the hairspray is such a good idea! I’ll have to keep that in mind the next time I see a fly in the chapel 🤍🤍

[@shaunmaclean3735]

You are always very respectful. God Bless

[@kristinreynolds577]

It’s so great to see you! I could only imagine what a nightmare this topic must be!! 🤢

[@jkmorrison1013]

I had to help on three disinterments in my brief cemetery career. All happened to be female corpses. There were maggots on all of the bodes. One was buried for just a few months, one was years and I don't remember how long the other one was in the ground. I was told to expect it and I did but it was unplesant to say the least. I'll skip the other stuff for now.

[@greg-ml7fp]

Interesting video, I always thought plugging all orifices with cotton/gauze was pretty much standard to prevent possible leakage.

[@riler19]

Can you do a video about from the time you go to pick up the person where they have passed away at all the way through till burial?

[@ANNtique]

You are always so respectful. Your content is so interesting!

[@abbilikesyou]

said very respectfully and was very informative!! would love to work in the Funeral industry but i live in the UK and there is no such thing as Mortuary school here :-(

[@DarkbutNotsinister]

But she’s still funny!

[@jameswootton3941]

YAY SHE'S BACK I'VE BEEN WATCHING YOU ALL OVER LOCKDOWN. I'VE GOT A QUESTION FOR YOU.... ITS MY GRANDFATHERS FUNERAL ON THE 18TH JANUARY AND ONLY 20 OF US CAN GO IN THE UK LONDON BUT I'VE BEEN MADE AWARE THAT IT IS GOING TO BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE TO WATCH DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS OR DO YOU FEEL LIKE ME ANGRY AND CONFUSED X

[@guardiansanimalrescuestate7289]

U could get a few bearded dragons because maggots are their favorite food. lol I know this is very difficult to deal with and talk about. I try to think of it in a different way. The stage of a maggot helps determine exact time of death. In criminal cases, it can be the evidence that’s needed to arrest the killer.

[@melaniecurtin6402]

Come summer everyone will have hairspray on hand looking for flies. 😃

[@mariealainawalukas3048]

Girl....you are a gem! It’s a scary situation that no one can control except Mother Nature herself! It happens in the best and worst of cases, right? Where there is death.....they are present. But I am certain that you do everything possible to protect your clients and your families from anything that would cause them pain. You presented this topic professionally and respectfully when it is a very delicate situation that would make ANYONE a little queasy. BTW Happy New Year!

[@rebeccatamblyn5199]

You're looking so well. Keep up the good work.

[@bchandler81]

Thank you for addressing a very real topic that we are genuinely curious about. On that note, have you ever had a body purge after they were embalmed & set out for the family/friends to view?

[@Valerie-Love]

This happened to my best friends dad 😔Everyone came to the viewing, then all of the sudden they shut the casket. She said my dad was leaking.....I'm like huh? I've never heard of that happening during a funeral. Sad and disturbing but things happen I suppose

[@jimbelter2]

My question is when you do encounter maggots, do you rinse the body off to get rid of them? I would think that would be one of the most efficient ways to remove them quickly plus reducing exposure time to them and their smell as well.

[@marciadichiara5688]

Glad to see you back. Happy belated New Year to you and family

[@catherine8579]

Is there a reason you use hairspray instead of bug spray? I have used hair spray when i have run out of bug spray but bug spray is so much easier, quicker & deadlier.

[@HG-ok5jh]

I’m so glad you’re back! I love your content and I’m looking forward to weekly videos. I’m a single mom who is going to start mortuary school this year and some of my loved ones are expressing concerns..telling me that it’s really hard and that they know a lot of people who weren’t able to find jobs after graduating mortuary school, that it doesn’t pay well, and that it’s a dying career. It’s discouraging because I’m so passionate about this field. Do you have any advice? Also, I love when you do “a day in the life” vlogs!

[@londonkyguy]

Welcome back. I was wandering what had happened to you. Glad you are going to be back with us.

[@bobbyspain7082]

What do you do if a person is been in a bad accident and the family wants to see the body open in the casket I'm bobby from nashville tn

[@themjns1951]

So glad you’re back. Missed your videos.

[@MyBelgianAzzy]

Not in the funeral industry (unfortunately... I'd like to work with stillborn babes and their mamas/families), but I do have two ponies in my front yard... I adore them, but livestock bring flies. When they come in the house, I go CRAZY, I make all the rooms as dark as possible, I use a flashlight to lure them to a spot on the wall in front of me, then SPLAT! Your hairspray method sounds less time consuming. Will you *PLEASE SHARE THE BRAND OF HAIRSPRAY* that you use to hunt the flying annoyances?? Thank you :)!

[@spiritmatter1553]

I’d guess that the cheapest hairspray is probably the most effective. I don’t like the smell of hairspray personally. I have one of those battery-powered fly swatters from the hardware store. I know I’ll sound like a sick b@stard but gotta admit how satisfying it is to electrocute those damned things.

[@MyBelgianAzzy]

@@spiritmatter1553 A sick- err- person? No way. Flies can be so annoying. I literally have a double door lockout procedure for getting in my room in the summer 😂, because the worst is a fly that makes it's way in, the lights go out, the phone or tablet goes on for Netflix, and BAM! the fly starts divebombing my head to get to the light of my electronic. I've been looking into getting an insect salt gun, so I can help the $uck3r$ go towards the light more quickly... 🙃😁

[@someonesomewhere1100]

I just found your channel, and my night is gone to binge watching 🤣 Can we have a storytime about some of the bodies that have been most shocking or stuck out to you most? 🙏🏻

[@j.whiteoak6408]

Yes please. Some of us may seem like morbid folks, but are really just interested in the truth!

[@crystalkayrickard9225]

Flies are so damn nasty! How sad and thank you for sharing, because I had no idea this was a thing. Yikes. You’re a hero for sure and so are all funeral people :)

[@nichmon3221]

I know the embalming fluid goes in. I want to know how the blood comes out. Do yall just slice open the other artery and the embalming fluid PUSHES the bodily fluid out? Or what makes it come out?

[@bernadetteherpakglisan7498]

Great seeing your sweet face again glad that all is well thank you for this video

[@Debdiencal]

Very interesting. I remember my dad telling me of a time when he worked with my Uncle at their Family funeral home of maggots coming out of a mans nose. I did not realize how common it was. I was just a kid then and figured it was due to no air conditioner up north and windows open for flys.

[@jerrybaker433]

Can i ask what. Do i need to do to plan my funeral.

[@meganpittman7633]

I am an aspiring funeral director/mortician, and I have a quick question: How does one go about attempting to witness an embalming before attending mortuary school? I am currently a university student, but plan to attend a mortuary sciences program as soon as I graduate. Another funeral director on KZbin said that witnessing an embalming was really beneficial to her, but she never saw my comment asking about the logistics of that. What is the legality of doing that? How could I possibly go about scheduling something like that? Luckily, I already have funeral directors who have given me a tour of their funeral home, so I *do* have contacts, but I was wondering if you could shed some more light on the subject! Thank you for a great video, as always!

[@davidmckinney6577]

Wow I didn't know that flies pose a threat to a embalmbed body I will watch out for the flies next time I hate flies and maggots they are super duper nasty... thanks for the video god bless you my friend 🙏

[@Q-Man-9137.]

Have you got a video on a tour of the funeral home

[@michaelskidmore5086]

Next video should be: “describe a typical day for a funeral pallbearer. What do they do prior to the service to after the service and any other task such as giving an eulogy”? I’ll be a pallbearer for my grandfather when he does pass away and I’ll be giving the eulogy as well. And maybe after that video: “how do you normally seat people for a service at a funeral home or church? I have a best friend named Acadia whom I know for 10 years now and she understands my feelings. If she does come to the service to grief me and to provide me with peace, where would she be seated for the service”? Hope you are doing good Lauren.

[@InfiniteText]

I hear you, we got bookworms at the library ....pests.

[@vKingLouie]

Kerosene in the pouch was an old method my grandpa and father did. The medical examiner in NJ uses dry shampoo which works great. Vinegar and water (1:3 ratio) works aswell then wash the body like normal sanitary care. Bleach and water, there are many methods that work well. But I just find kerosene (which is totally not allowed anymore) a funny solution. Legit from the gas station 😂

[@bryanconstantino9810]

awesome well done

[@skigirl1689]

What are cremains in when the outer container is just cardboard? Some of these boxes have lovely patterns, but I always wondered if there's like a sealed bag inside or something else?

[@cynthiathomas6690]

Cremains are put in a "plastic bag" before they are placed in the container-my dad and my mom's father were cremated.

[@skigirl1689]

@@cynthiathomas6690 Thanks. My brother-in-law's aunt and mom passed last month, and due to timing and such, my parents are "keeping" them for now. I know some people would have issues with it, but for me, it doesn't bother me. But I also grew up taking bike rides with my parents through the cemetery a couple blocks from our house...and then my parents moved across from it when I began high school.

[@miasingh6343]

Broooo I missed your videos omg heyyyyyy ❤

[@j.whiteoak6408]

In my family, if you aren't WITH our loved ones when they pass away the day they die, then you simply do not get to have a 'visitation' with them in death. That's that. We don't believe in embalming, only in natural burials and /or direct cremations.. We think that instead of expensive funeral home services, the money should be spent on a decent memorial memorial in the family plot, the rest on education for children of the living.

[@JamesT-g3l]

Cremating is bad for the environment.

[@bethboho9633]

Wouldn’t the embalm chemicals kill maggots?

[@frednugent2310]

You are a gem

[@snapmac5547]

Have you ever had a funeral where the family gets into a fight?

[@johnhoma4304]

Is it against the law for a licensed embalmer to allow a regular person to watch the embalming being done?

[@davidgillies5342]

I have read about a certain pathologist, who dealt with a maggot infested murder victims body. By putting it into a bath of lysol. That took care of the maggot problem so i understand.Two young boys made the horrific discovery of the victim. Poor lads!!

[@robertwunner5523]

Interesting s

[@bethboho9633]

I hate spiders and I do the same thing....get hairspray and bees too. I know bees will like the hairspray cause they use to chase me whenever I wore hairspray, keep up the good videos I enjoy them very much!

[@alixhice]

Yeah. Not a fun topic, but you handled it beautifully and with Grace. Very informative.

[@peggykhune6420]

if a person died outside how long does it take for maggets show up

[@HandsomeBoyGarion]

Days but you shouldn’t care what happeneds to your body you gonna be dead

[@GunsHarleysUSA]

I have a question about this videos subject matter..Can maggots still be present inside a body that has been embalmed with those chemicals?

[@breck6520]

Flies are not typically drawn to a recently embalmed body, however at any point even a split second during the time between a persons’s death & their embalming it’s possible a fly will lay eggs and those eggs may later hatch within the orifices of the now embalmed decedent.

[@egordon9482]

Has your job changed the part faith plays in your life? Or vice versa? Thanks for sharing with honesty and compassion.

[@brittanyvictoria8712]

But wait so what do u do as far as embalming them ?? I need to know more lol

[@erikkah2127]

Why the hell did I choose to eat a bowl of spaghetti now of all times?

[@waynejamrock6225]

😂😂😂

[@NathanThurberMusic]

Maggots gotta eat too.

[@HandsomeBoyGarion]

Yessir they do but they clean stuff.

[@emmadalrymple4102]

A great video on a rather sensitive topic. In describing your first encounter, it was well done. I van picture you chasing down a fly with hairspray, lol. The next time I am inside of a funeral home, I shall become an anonymous silent alarm, if I spot a fly. Maggots, like death, are a part of life. Well handled situation. 👍🏻😉🥀

[@chriskilbourne388]

I am looking for a video of reconstruction. I am a met and I am interested in the funeral industry. I am just waiting to get financing g for school I am amazed with the advanced that’s out now. On reconstruction of the body

[@kaydee4296]

About how much do you encounter an infestation? Once a month? Every 6 months? Just wondering because it sounds like a nightmare for a funeral director...Also, what chemicals DO kill them, as far as what you can use in and on a deceased body?

[@boeingf8084]

Was the person embalmed? cause if the person is embalmed that should not happen, not so?

[@michellepeppin1806]

This is kinda off topic but my friend and her new husband died in a car wreak the caskets were open but it looked like they both had like a net type of stuff over there face you could see them but you also seen the net stuff what is that stuff and why do they use it?

[@angelbasham6631]

Typically the netting is to discourage touching of the deceased when restorative work has been done to make viewing possible

[@cynthiathomas6690]

How about an "update" on your buddy Keith-mr."I don't wear my seatbelt"😀

[@tintosfamily4535]

I am working on my associates to get into mortuary school, but I’m worried because I’m not good at driving big cars. So the thought of driving a hearse scares me. What if I flip the corpse and I over or ram us off the road. lol

[@cynthiathomas6690]

My mom's sister had been dead for a week when she was found,so maggots were present-We couldn't have a "viewing" as she was"too badly decomposed" to be seen,so her casket was closed.

[@kathystay1078]

I’m so sorry.

[@terryl7874]

I can almost see you chasing a fly with hair spray! Sorry!

[@DarkbutNotsinister]

Death industry history is interesting. I don’t even know when coffins turned into caskets or why. If you’re in WNY (I’ve seen the Tim Horton’s coffee you drink!), Forest Lawn has so many interesting dead people...and the art! There has to be some history to all the different types of headstones (other than just $) I’d love to hear some “you can’t make this up” stories. Best and worst families? Not names, of course. Just storytime. The one in a million type stories- have you seen people pick up their loved ones to say goodbye & it all went to hell in a handbasket? How do you handle families who don’t get along, argue or fight? I come from a family of “wake fighters”. Someone dies, the family gets together and brings up fights from 20 years ago. The younger generation places bets on which old people will get tossed out. Your video was kind and respectful, but still funny & cute. Not just anyone can pull that off!!

[@glendahamilton2043]

@Erin, completely agree. As being one of the younger generations in the family, I'm part of those placing bets on who's going to say something awful or start trouble. Lol. Geez. Always seems to be some in usually every family.

[@DarkbutNotsinister]

@@glendahamilton2043 I don’t talk to a whole side of my family because my dad (who is 80) had an argument with my great uncle about a car at least 45 years ago. Of course, we were banished from the side of the family who ended up with a famous vampire. My maiden name is Boreanaz, as in my cousin David, who played Angel on Buffy, etc. I’ve never met him because it was his grandfather & my dad who argued when we were REALLY little kids. 😒

[@glendahamilton2043]

@@DarkbutNotsinister it's so sad when things like that have to play out like that. It seems when the older generations die off, they were the glue that held the families together. It's a shame too becuase so much family history is lost as a result.

[@DarkbutNotsinister]

@@glendahamilton2043 Those of us that are under 60 don’t even know one another well enough to continue the hate! We just don’t know each other at all. And yes, SO much history on that side has disappeared. We were the “black sheep” of the family, so it’s been lost on me.

[@adamtiz]

Have ever had a viewing or had the opportunity to participate in a funeral of a eastern rite clergy

[@alleycat1117]

We deal with maggots in the hospital settings occasionally. Fly landing on fresh trachiotomy is one I remember.Patient died and we were chasing maggots with a yankauer ( suction device) all over the nose and neck. First nurse to see one let out a scream in the ICU. It happens !

[@laurazebron3165]

yes .unfortunately flies find a moist environment the best for laying eggs. and decomposing is unfortunately a moist and smelly environment. even if you are as clean as possible! even In alive people with bad wounds.

[@jerrybaker433]

& take the burden off my family. Iv heard. Pre planning is a good isea

[@Etd522]

Have you ever encountered a super natural situation AKA ghost while working?

[@ecco8994]

Doom

[@nohana2003]

Years ago I went to the viewing of a 5 year old child; There were several flies attacking the body during the viewing. It was disgusting to see this happening;