Category: Embalming

• I Want to Watch

  An essential component of our role as funeral directors is to maintain the sanctity of our work and protect the privacy of those in our care. Something that continues to trouble me is the prurient interest some have in the most private part of funeral service. “I want to watch? Can I?” It is an […]

  themortegirls

  July 31, 2020

  Alexandra Mosca, Care of the Dead, Embalming, Female Funeral Directors, Sacred Rituals, The Morte Girls, Uncategorized

  Care of the Dead, Embalmer, Embalming, Female Funeral Directors, Mortuary School, The Morte Girls, Viewing the Dead

• Extreme Embalming

  

  By Melissa Johnson Williams There was a picture that circulated on the internet recently showing a young man posed at his wake in a laid back style.  Many commentators used the phrase “extreme embalming” to describe this supposedly new phenomenon. Most of those commentators know nothing about embalming or its history. If they did they […]

  themortegirls

  July 26, 2018

  Care of the Dead, Death, Embalming, Funerals

• Women In Funeral Service, Circa 1900

  By Melissa Johnson Williams These pages are from the funeral service publications of the early 1900’s called The Casket and The Sunnyside.  As can be seen in these photos women are prominent in the care of the dead, specifically teaching embalming.  More than 100 years ago these women lead the way for every woman practitioner […]

  themortegirls

  July 15, 2018

  Antidote to Misinformation, Care of the Dead, Embalming, Female Funeral Directors

• Embalming Facts & Myths

  

  The Value of Viewing the Deceased           By Melissa Johnson Williams Every family that experiences the death of a loved one will have a very important decision to make. That decision is whether or not to see their loved one prior to either burial or cremation. This decision should not be taken […]

  themortegirls

  March 27, 2018

  Embalming