I’m a mortuary technician – here’s what we do with your organs
You won’t be able to un-hear this.
A mortuary technician has managed to make a whole lot of people shudder with her explanation of what happens to your organs after you die.
“During a postmortem examination, people seem to think that your organs are put back where nature intended,” a technician named Hayleigh, who goes by @themortuarytech on TikTok, revealed online. “They’re not.”
Hayleigh, a mortuary technician, revealed what happens to your organs after you die. TikTok / @themortuarytech
The mortuary technician unveiled details that many people wish they didn’t know about the process. TikTok / @themortuarytech
Hayleigh’s job as a mortuary involves working at a funeral home to prepare body parts and entire bodies for embalming, burial, or cremation.
In a clip of her appearance on a recent podcast interview, the parts pro described in depth what morticians do with your insides.
“They’re all put in a clinical bag back inside your torso, and your chest cavity and your stomach/abdomen, and you’re sutured back up. So your brain’s not in your head,” she added.
Hayleigh explained the organs are not put back into the original location because once a part is cut out, you can’t just shove it back.
The mortuary worker’s explanation left the podcast hosts shocked.
“Oh my god. [That] really freaked me out a bit,” unveiled Billy. “Just thrown in like a goody bag.”
Many people online were spooked out by the revelation, wishing they didn’t know.
“I absolutely wish I didn’t know that,” confessed one person.
“Seems I’ve taken a terribly wrong turn somewhere along my TikTok journey,” commented a watcher.
“Whoever digs us up in 3,000 years are gonna question everything,” joked another.
What exactly goes on with bodies after we die has been in the news lately, with one prominent NYC funeral home chain facing fines and potential license revocation after a New York State Department of Health investigation, The Post reported earlier.
The Bronx-based R.G. Ortiz Funeral Homes is additionally accused of improperly caring for a body that allegedly languished for eight days inside a viewing room, according to an attorney suing the company on behalf of a devastated family.
“Eight days in the viewing room — unrefrigerated and unembalmed,” lawyer Phil Rizzuto told The Post. “I can’t imagine how. The body must have smelled, no?”
And just this week, the owners of a Colorado funeral home pleaded guilty to corpse abuse after being accused of piling 190 bodies inside a room temperature building and passing off dry concrete as the ashes of loved ones, the Associated Press reported.
