Every day, people facing death share the strangest and most horrible career stories.

Editors on Reddit asked funeral home staff, from embalmers to funeral directors, and others facing death face-to-face to share the strangest career stories. The application results certainly exceeded expectations. Some stories are not explained with common sense, others are very sad, but they all teach very simple truths: dear ones, protect yourself and others, when you drive, shower or just … stop by the church.

Those nursing homes should be closed

He says PastelPastries: “The guy was laying on the autopsy table, and his whole back was rotten to the bone. It turned out that he had recently lived in a nursing home, he was paralyzed. The negligence of the staff simply took away the promise: no one washed it for so long that the living man began to rot. One can only hope that he himself did not feel it … The real situation became clear only when he found himself at that table. “

The woman was killed … by a chimera

He says Back2Bach: “At the funeral home, a woman had to be prepared for the funeral, who was killed by a chimera sculpture that fell directly on her head from the tower of the old church. The blow was so strong that the reconstruction of the deceased’s head took several days. “

Another proof is that the clamp must be handled with care.

He says Ed98208: “The strangest and most puzzling case of my career was that of a man in his sixties who died of a pulmonary embolism, a condition so deadly that it struck him with a clamp on his penis. I tried to find at least some explanation as to why it could have happened by accident (maybe bare on metal or wood), but I failed. Hard to imagine what it did … “.

Smoking kills. For real

He says TooMuchPretzels: “Once we had an affair with a dead man who seemed to have died in war. Burns, broken wounds – in my imagination this is exactly what a soldier who landed in a mine or became the target of a grenade looks like … It later turned out that the lady was discharged from the hospital just the day after of the hip replacement operation. Doctors gave him an oxygen balloon and strictly ordered him not to smoke. At home, the lady relaxed, forgot all the warnings and, sitting comfortably on the sofa on the terrace of the house, standing next to the oxygen (the oxygen supply tubes were in her nose), lit the last cigarette of her lifetime … “.

Dangers of cake frosting

He says TheModernMortician: “The lady mortally ate the icing on the cake … Two days before her death, the neighbors saw her sitting in her favorite chair. Until someone got used to approaching. The woman was dead, placing a jar of frosting on her knees. The chair threw four empty jars on the floor. She also had a glow on her chin … The mother of the deceased said that she had had a stomach reduction operation five months ago. The irony of destiny “.

Deadly relaxation in the bathroom.

He says Ephialtis: “One of those cases. In a large apartment complex, it started to smell terribly – steam was spreading from a specific apartment. The host found a dead woman living in the bathroom …

He appears to have suffered a heart attack while getting into the bathtub. The water ran and ran, hot water. Dropping with his foot, he pulled the plug out of the tub so the flood wouldn’t start. So what happened in the next two weeks? The woman slowly simmered under a stream of hot water. Do you think the water should have cooled when the water heater was drained? Unfortunately, but no, the entire huge house uses a common system.

When special services arrived, removing the carcass from the bathroom was equated with the experience of long-fried marinated chicken – the meat just fell off the bone. “

Masturbation can end in a morgue

to write Princessolympia: “We once had a corpse that, being alive, loved to masturbate. For the last time in my life, he amused himself so intensely and for so long that he cut off the blood flow to his penis. The infection entered the male genitalia and gangrene began. Eventually the infection entered the bloodstream and the man died. “

Very sad vacation

He says BenicioDelPollo: “My dad worked for a time in the morgue and was in charge of the autopsies. From all the experience of that time, he distinguishes a girl who suffered fatal burns while lying in an embryonic pose. It seems that when there was a fire in the house, he decided to hide under a Christmas tree, which soon became a real torch. “

And where is your head?

He says UlicBelouve: “There was a terrible motorcycle accident. The motorcyclist traveled without a helmet. And being left without a head, the agents searched for a long time for a part of the victim’s body that was missing in the dark, but found nothing. In the end, it turned out that the head was nowhere to be found, it was just a blow to the body. “

There was a fatal electric shock, just not close to electricity

He says Azryhael: “I had to work as a paramedic and as a morgue, so believe me, I have dealt with the strangest and most horrible things. One of the most interesting specimens was that of a man who was named to cause of death after an autopsy, even though the abandoned farm where he died had no electricity for decades. All details showed that the man died in the place where his remains were later found, so no one left his body there. There was no idea how he could be killed electricity in such a place …

It was in a wooden building with a healthy roof. It was right in the middle of the room, so it is unlikely that it touched anything that could become a conductor and transmit an electrical current, such as that of lightning, and thus kill. There was nothing like it. And it’s very strange. “

How a pillow gets more dangerous than heroin

He says EilrahcNotneb: “Maybe nothing special, but I was most remembered by a boy addicted to heroin. The coroner decided it wasn’t the drugs that killed him, but his … pillow.

The man took such a large dose that he lost control of his body: he fell face down on the bed. He was paralyzed and eventually just suffocated. If, for example, he had not yet decided that there would be no drugs in my life, the faces of his family would have forced him to swear forever that he would not approach such nonsense. “

The curse of the tree sprout

He says TheCrispiestofBacon: “My brother told me a really horrible story about a man who had an accident. After the collision, it flew through the windshield. When police and other services showed up at the crash site, he was sitting nearby in a car in shock, but in excellent condition, considering what had just happened: just a broken arm and a few scratches. The man seemed truly miraculously lucky. As soon as the ambulance medics arrived, picked him up and examined him more closely, the young man collapsed and stopped breathing. He was rushed to hospital, where he died soon, but doctors could not identify the cause of his sudden death.

My brother performed an autopsy on the deceased and discovered that the guy, escaping through the windshield of the car, descended through the anus directly on a small tree shoot. As he sat he was in shock and probably didn’t realize what happened, but when the doctors built it, the tree probably pierced his intestines and irreversibly damaged his internal organs … ”.

A very macabre way to earn money

He says constantterror: “I am not professionally related to death, but a very strange story happened in the apartment building where I live: a real monster lived on the second floor. He used to be half naked standing on the balcony and blowing people, cursing the scariest words. They killed me once by throwing a vial at my head when I was at the bottom. A few inches were missing and now I would not write to you here. And yet he had seventy lovers living together (only one God knew how this could have happened).

Be that as it may, one day he disappeared like in the water, and after a while the neighbors began to feel the unbearable stench that emanated from his apartment. The police were called and the arriving officers slammed the door. The image they saw shocked me terribly. The hostess and her lover lay on the bed. She had died about two weeks ago, but her life partner was at least THREE months ago.

He probably kept the news of his partner’s death a secret so that he could continue to receive his pension using his documents. Why he slept in the same bed with the corpse all that time is incomprehensible to the mind. And the apartment itself … It is not an apartment, but a real dump. Only mountains are garbage. “