It's great to see a FD/embalmer who repeatedly takes the time at informing the general public on the everchanging & fascinating death industry. Good job! I don't know how you manage to juggle your professional & personal life along with a YT channel, but it's working!!
You mentioning all your doing and future videos. How do you balance work/life/UA-cam. I’m exhausted just from hearing how busy you are and you have such a welcoming personality in all your videos. Love from your Michigan interviewee
Hi Kari, I missed your live, I just want to say I am so happy you and Josh are a couple, you both look so happy 😊. This might sound morbid but it's like two caskets passing in the night. 🤗
Hi Kari, the queen will be sealed in a vault at St. George's chapel. Which means the coffin won't be covered with soil. When there is no contact with sand , I wonder how long the body and coffin will take to decompose and just go in to nothing?
They have just put some burial vaults in the cemetery near me and a friend of mine is in a double vault with his father so they do use them but not often and my god it's expensive £2000 just to reopen
Hey Karl!👋 You mentioned a in person meeting with," beer with the boys". My brain created a image, of all of you sitting around a makeshift table, that was a actual funeral bier. You know. The fancy central column style! 🤣 Oh and don't forget the coasters! No setting your beers directly on the bier! Yeah, I'm just a goofball. 😏 Take care luv! 💐
My friends mom died August 9th and they waited until her 90th birthday to do a grave side service on September 7th in her home state. She had to be embalmed. So there was no viewing due to she was skin and bone. How fast would the decomposing take place? Would she be kept in cold storage if there was no viewing being held, It was just direct graveside service and burial? She had to be transported by plane to her home state.
@@KaritheMortician I was unable to see her as I was in the state she left. No photos were taken. I did visit soon before death and skin and bone. Very little weight on her. She was not eating much and had no food or drink three days before death.
There was a funeral sign across the street from the VA hospital where my daddy was. I thought it was depressing to the folks in the hospital to see that.
Karl. .lovely to hear from you again. So glad you've fallen in love again. I have moved and am building my dream studio at last. Take care dear Lady Of Michigan. I prayed for you and it seems God answered for you. BE happy always...TJ the DJ 😎🙂🙂🙂🙂
So many things to comment on. In my family it was considered disrespectful to photograph the body. In some families the name is not to be spoken again for a long time. It's to let them go wherever it is they need to go instead of trying to keep them here. There's more but I don'tcwant to share publically.
I had to go to my former Aunt’s funeral this past Wednesday. We are very close to her kids, and her grandkids, etc. she remarried a very nice man 30 years ago, and has been very happy. ANYWAY, she passed away, and Mom and I both felt that we should attend the funeral. As we were walking into the viewing, (held at an LDS CHURCH, so the viewing was in the R.S. Room, if you’re familiar,) we are in the crowded hallway, with her great grand kids and other people milling about, here are FIVE gentlemen, clearly from the funeral home, TALKING NOT QUIETLY, about having “worked on Nancy, the Night before, at the funeral home, and how much of a “difficult time they were having with her FACE,and Forehead!” I STOPPED! Made sure I made eye contact with the two gentleman in question, and made sure they knew, without me saying a word, that I had heard the entire conversation! Kari, my question is this, should I have VERBALLY called them out on their unprofessionalism, idk if perhaps ANY OF THE OTHER FAMILY Members had caught ANY OF THIS CONVERSATION! It was not discreet, nor were they being quiet about it! I thought it to be NOT THE TIME NOR THE PLACE, for the discussion! Do I call theFuneral Home and complain?! I’m just glad my Male cousins weren’t within earshot. (My first cousins). This was their mother, and I could easily see a physical altercation taking place. 🤔😱☹️ I’m glad it’s not one I would be considering for when my mom goes! She will be 94 next month! When I told her what they had said, she had said, “well maybe it’s a good thing I couldn’t hear in all that noise!” 😂
Oh no! That's definitely not professional or respectful at all. It really would be dependent on your comfort level, but you could have taken them aside and told them how you felt. However a call to the manager of the funeral home after the service could also be warranted. That's just plan rude and I'm sorry it happened to you.
Hi Kari,I have a question.When a body is prepared for showing do you leave the formaldehyde in the body to preserve it or is it flushed out?You look so happy an content,I love you an your infectious smile.Best wishes.
Kari ... can't you find out if the Queen was embalmed at her home in Scotland? Curious. I know in the past most royals were born at home (until William I think)... but embalming at home has to be a pretty intense "undertaking". I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thx in advance!
Yes the queen is in the lead lined coffin and she isn't embalmed that's why it's lead lined to keep smells and fluids inside and this is olso why it has to be kept closed
I saw a question about fingerprint jewelry on one of your other videos. I wanted to share my experience. @Kari the Mortician Who ever asked about the fingerprint for jewelry be careful. Apparently the funeral home and I had a "misunderstanding". They said Pendant with the fingerprint on it. I paid $300.00 for a pendant with my brother's fingerprint on it. The funeral home ordered it. But the funeral home considered the chain as the pendant. I wound up with a tiny charm with the chain. I can't even see my brother's fingerprint. Just be careful and make sure what you are getting what you really want.
I have a question. When you are in mortuary school do you wear scrubs in the lab or even when you are embalming? I am a future mortuary student and I love to wear scrubs, so I wonder if wearing scrubs is a part of preparation attire.
I kind of I guess off topic question on the Queen she’s travelling around and laying in state for several days how is her body staying fresh lack of a better word through all these ceremonies until her funeral on Monday
Just saw your class picture at CCMS and have to say you look even better now then you did twenty years ago. Do you attribute this to anything like vitamins, exercise, skin creams, etc? I'm dying to know. lol 😎
Where did you see the class pic at? lol I exercise everyday at least a bit. I am big fan of collagen and i drink a ton of water. No secret but maybe good genes.
Hi,, thease kind of things are based on trust, and you would expect the funeral home to do the Wright things by your loved ones! But you don't see what happens behind closed doors! I worked in care for 15years on a mental health unit, with people who have no mental capacity ! I always say if you can't do the job properly and do Wright by the service users it's time to walk away and do the Wright thing! Family members trust you to do the Wright thing by their loved ones,
What would you think of a funeral home advertising like a used car lot with flashing synchronized & Neon lights this week only $999.00 Palper special Quality pine construction 1 pillow 6 pallbearers // mourners Hearse Coffee Tea Danish / cookies simple flower arrangement
I what you be trufull to the people I read all your vedio some are very good. I’am going in the near future plan my funeral and from what heard they not honest people. I can’t not trust no one.
Sure. The Queen's funeral looks great, but the Queen's family is one of the richest in the world. Perhaps funeral homes think every family has that much to spend. Judging by the bills they send to the families of their clients, you might think they do. For many families a death in their family is just too much of a budget buster, and they desperately need to know about what the prices are in all the funeral homes who may do the job. Speaking of British morticians, I remember seeing something on TV with a British undertaker advising a man about 3 different options he had of how they could take care of his mother. " We can bury her, burn her, or dump her in the Thames"
The whole damn industry is tacky. It’s all about money. Nothing else matters but money. The more money the better, no matter how you have to get it. It’s disgusting.
@@KaritheMortician to listen to you, you would have us believe that the industry is “angelic.” Maybe you can tell us why the FTC has to regulate your industry. I also recall you advocating for funeral directors getting paid on a commission basis in one of your videos. Ugh.
NEVER have I said that. I have said Commission is a HORRIBLE thing in our business. I have videos on NAUGHTY funeral directors. So you have NO CLUE what you are talking about quite clearly.
@@KaritheMortician Quite clearly you have a very convenient lapse of memory. I know exactly what you said. You said it, and you should own it. Stop evading the issue and explain why the FTC found necessary to regulate your corrupt industry. Tell us. Inquiring minds want to know.
Enjoy each other’s company and let that chemistry develop. Important to take time to reconnect with who you are!!💕
Thank you!!
It's great to see a FD/embalmer who repeatedly takes the time at informing the general public on the everchanging & fascinating death industry. Good job! I don't know how you manage to juggle your professional & personal life along with a YT channel, but it's working!!
Thanks so much!!
Good morning from Kentucky. Love your videos. I've learned so much.
Thank you so much!!
You mentioning all your doing and future videos. How do you balance work/life/UA-cam. I’m exhausted just from hearing how busy you are and you have such a welcoming personality in all your videos. Love from your Michigan interviewee
Thank you! I am exhausted all the time lol
The UA-cam channel are you dying to know is a good insight on how they do preparations in Australia. Trish and Tracy are awesome.
Thank you!
So glad to hear you again
Thank you!
The collaboration with you and Josh brings such dynamic and fascinating topic choices. Love it!!
Yay! Thank you!
The art from creamated remains is amazing! I've seen a video of his work and it's stunning! I'd prefer that over an urn on a mantle any day!
I totally agree!
Hi Kari, I missed your live, I just want to say I am so happy you and Josh are a couple, you both look so happy 😊. This might sound morbid but it's like two caskets passing in the night. 🤗
Gn kari I am from barbados like your show.
Thank you!
Thank you so much!!
Hi Kari, the queen will be sealed in a vault at St. George's chapel. Which means the coffin won't be covered with soil. When there is no contact with sand , I wonder how long the body and coffin will take to decompose and just go in to nothing?
She will be placed into a crypt down in the ground.
They have just put some burial vaults in the cemetery near me and a friend of mine is in a double vault with his father so they do use them but not often and my god it's expensive £2000 just to reopen
Yes it is!
Hey Kari, never miss your videos
:)
In our cemetery there are some graves that have a slab covering the entire grave. Is that the top of the actual vault or something extra?
Extra. Its called a ledger
Good morning Kari from Atlanta GA
Good morning!
We're in North Pole, Alaska. Maybe you'll come up here. Hope so!!
That would be fun!
Hey Kari, never miss you UA-cam videos
Thank you!
NDF yes !
Yeah!
Hey Karl!👋 You mentioned a in person meeting with," beer with the boys". My brain created a image, of all of you sitting around a makeshift table, that was a actual funeral bier. You know. The fancy central column style! 🤣 Oh and don't forget the coasters! No setting your beers directly on the bier! Yeah, I'm just a goofball. 😏 Take care luv! 💐
Fun!!
My friends mom died August 9th and they waited until her 90th birthday to do a grave side service on September 7th in her home state. She had to be embalmed. So there was no viewing due to she was skin and bone. How fast would the decomposing take place? Would she be kept in cold storage if there was no viewing being held, It was just direct graveside service and burial? She had to be transported by plane to her home state.
She could still look the same right now. No way to know unless we look at her
@@KaritheMortician I was unable to see her as I was in the state she left. No photos were taken. I did visit soon before death and skin and bone. Very little weight on her. She was not eating much and had no food or drink three days before death.
There was a funeral sign across the street from the VA hospital where my daddy was. I thought it was depressing to the folks in the hospital to see that.
Product placement I guess...weird though
🤔
Karl. .lovely to hear from you again. So glad you've fallen in love again. I have moved and am building my dream studio at last. Take care dear Lady Of Michigan. I prayed for you and it seems God answered for you. BE happy always...TJ the DJ 😎🙂🙂🙂🙂
That is wonderful!!
So many things to comment on. In my family it was considered disrespectful to photograph the body. In some families the name is not to be spoken again for a long time. It's to let them go wherever it is they need to go instead of trying to keep them here. There's more but I don'tcwant to share publically.
Thank you!
I had to go to my former Aunt’s funeral this past Wednesday. We are very close to her kids, and her grandkids, etc. she remarried a very nice man 30 years ago, and has been very happy.
ANYWAY, she passed away, and Mom and I both felt that we should attend the funeral. As we were walking into the viewing, (held at an LDS CHURCH, so the viewing was in the R.S. Room, if you’re familiar,) we are in the crowded hallway, with her great grand kids and other people milling about, here are FIVE gentlemen, clearly from the funeral home, TALKING NOT QUIETLY, about having “worked on Nancy, the Night before, at the funeral home, and how much of a “difficult time they were having with her FACE,and Forehead!” I STOPPED! Made sure I made eye contact with the two gentleman in question, and made sure they knew, without me saying a word, that I had heard the entire conversation!
Kari, my question is this, should I have VERBALLY called them out on their unprofessionalism, idk if perhaps ANY OF THE OTHER FAMILY Members had caught ANY OF THIS CONVERSATION! It was not discreet, nor were they being quiet about it! I thought it to be NOT THE TIME NOR THE PLACE, for the discussion!
Do I call theFuneral Home and complain?! I’m just glad my Male cousins weren’t within earshot. (My first cousins). This was their mother, and I could easily see a physical altercation taking place. 🤔😱☹️
I’m glad it’s not one I would be considering for when my mom goes! She will be 94 next month! When I told her what they had said, she had said, “well maybe it’s a good thing I couldn’t hear in all that noise!” 😂
Oh no! That's definitely not professional or respectful at all. It really would be dependent on your comfort level, but you could have taken them aside and told them how you felt. However a call to the manager of the funeral home after the service could also be warranted. That's just plan rude and I'm sorry it happened to you.
You do coffee with Kari, and I always have a Coke when I watch, (ha! Usually in the middle of the night..”Coke with Kathy!” 🥳🙄
Well I appreciate you watching, lol.
Hi Kari,I have a question.When a body is prepared for showing do you leave the formaldehyde in the body to preserve it or is it flushed out?You look so happy an content,I love you an your infectious smile.Best wishes.
It is left in to go into the tissue to preserve temporarily
Kari ... can't you find out if the Queen was embalmed at her home in Scotland? Curious. I know in the past most royals were born at home (until William I think)... but embalming at home has to be a pretty intense "undertaking". I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thx in advance!
Yes that is very interesting
Video coming soon
@@KaritheMortician awesome! Thank you! I look forward to seeing it.
Queen Victoria had an open casket but that was 1901
Thank you
What is the date of the Convention in Baltimore?
It starts this Friday through next Wednesday or THursday I believe
Good morning keri
Good morning!
Yes the queen is in the lead lined coffin and she isn't embalmed that's why it's lead lined to keep smells and fluids inside and this is olso why it has to be kept closed
thank you
I saw a question about fingerprint jewelry on one of your other videos. I wanted to share my experience.
@Kari the Mortician Who ever asked about the fingerprint for jewelry be careful. Apparently the funeral home and I had a "misunderstanding". They said Pendant with the fingerprint on it.
I paid $300.00 for a pendant with my brother's fingerprint on it. The funeral home ordered it. But the funeral home considered the chain as the pendant. I wound up with a tiny charm with the chain. I can't even see my brother's fingerprint. Just be careful and make sure what you are getting what you really want.
Oh goodness!!
I have a question. When you are in mortuary school do you wear scrubs in the lab or even when you are embalming? I am a future mortuary student and I love to wear scrubs, so I wonder if wearing scrubs is a part of preparation attire.
The school provided scrubs for us at my school and we changed into them and then left them there to be laundered
I kind of I guess off topic question on the Queen she’s travelling around and laying in state for several days how is her body staying fresh lack of a better word through all these ceremonies until her funeral on Monday
Video coming soon
Can you talk about transporting a deceased loved one from one state to another. What is involved with that ?
I have a video on it :) I will do another one.
You are just so beautiful and amazing. Love your Videos. 👍👍👍
Thank you for those very kind words.
Would the blankets designegrate?
We will find out!
Just saw your class picture at CCMS and have to say you look even better now then you did twenty years ago. Do you attribute this to anything like vitamins, exercise, skin creams, etc? I'm dying to know. lol 😎
Where did you see the class pic at? lol I exercise everyday at least a bit. I am big fan of collagen and i drink a ton of water. No secret but maybe good genes.
My grandfather was a mortician.
Awesome
Ask A Mortician did a video about Royal funerals 🌻
Yes she does a great job
I was a teenage wear wolf
Yes!
That's gonna be hard with Ralph!😢 Even after 3 years I don't think you can think of a loyal furry companion as a science project 🐶
We shall see how it goes!
it is like lavidady all the blood is in a certain place for awhile
yes
Hi,, thease kind of things are based on trust, and you would expect the funeral home to do the Wright things by your loved ones! But you don't see what happens behind closed doors! I worked in care for 15years on a mental health unit, with people who have no mental capacity ! I always say if you can't do the job properly and do Wright by the service users it's time to walk away and do the Wright thing! Family members trust you to do the Wright thing by their loved ones,
Very true!
Poor Ralfie
Thanks so much for watching.
What would you think of a funeral home advertising like a used car lot with flashing synchronized & Neon lights this week only $999.00 Palper special Quality pine construction 1 pillow 6 pallbearers // mourners Hearse Coffee Tea Danish / cookies simple flower arrangement
:)
I forgot to add the embalming & cosmetology & clothes and a Reverend or Priest & piped in music or instrumentals of choice
:) what is ??
An extreme, hot damn!
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@@KaritheMortician an extreme embarmer.
we do have viewing in the uk but the royals don't ever there in a lead coffin
Thank you
I was a Teenage Werewolf
Yes!
I what you be trufull to the people I read all your vedio some are very good. I’am going in the near future plan my funeral and from what heard they not honest people. I can’t not trust no one.
There are dishonest people in every profession but that is not the majority
Not saying your Dishonest. I’am just saying. You can’t trust nobody. But I do like your vedio.
Sure. The Queen's funeral looks great, but the Queen's family is one of the richest in the world. Perhaps funeral homes think every family has that much to spend. Judging by the bills they send to the families of their clients, you might think they do.
For many families a death in their family is just too much of a budget buster, and they desperately need to know about what the prices are in all the funeral homes who may do the job.
Speaking of British morticians, I remember seeing something on TV with a British undertaker advising a man about 3 different options he had of how they could take care of his mother. " We can bury her, burn her, or dump her in the Thames"
Oh that sounds like a very interesting show! Thanks for sharing.
The whole damn industry is tacky. It’s all about money. Nothing else matters but money. The more money the better, no matter how you have to get it. It’s disgusting.
Amazing that you have had contact with all 19,000 funeral homes in the U.S. and know this info
@@KaritheMortician to listen to you, you would have us believe that the industry is “angelic.” Maybe you can tell us why the FTC has to regulate your industry. I also recall you advocating for funeral directors getting paid on a commission basis in one of your videos. Ugh.
NEVER have I said that. I have said Commission is a HORRIBLE thing in our business. I have videos on NAUGHTY funeral directors. So you have NO CLUE what you are talking about quite clearly.
@@KaritheMortician Quite clearly you have a very convenient lapse of memory. I know exactly what you said. You said it, and you should own it. Stop evading the issue and explain why the FTC found necessary to regulate your corrupt industry. Tell us. Inquiring minds want to know.
FTC regulates our business like all businesses are regulated by things...not exclusive to us. Love for you to show me where I ever said that.
teen wolf
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Teen Wolf (1985)
That is the Michael J. Fox one
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