Gerrard Kaonga
It's a rather macabre subject, but people are nonetheless fascinated with what happens at a mortuary.
When it comes to death, there are loads of questions regarding what, if anything, comes next, but it seems people are also unaware of another crucial stage of death.
I'm not talking metaphysically or spiritually; I mean what literally happens to a person's body when it arrives at a morgue.
Well, morgue technician Hayleigh, who goes by @themortuarytech on TikTok, regularly breaks down some of the facts of her job.
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She certainly managed to cause a stir while appearing on a podcast recently. Hayleigh explained what technicians do with a person’s organs, and many social media users admitted they had never considered the procedures that take place.
Speaking on the Four Nine podcast, the mortuary worker explained just how things work.
She said: “During a postmortem examination, people seem to think that your organs are put back where nature intended, they are not.
“No. They’re all put in a clinical bag, put back inside your torso and chest cavity, and you're sutured back up.
“So, your brain’s not in your head.”
This obviously stunned the show's hosts, with one remarking that ‘your brain is in your belly’.
They continued to ask whether your head would be concave a little bit, to which the mortician explained that your skull would be sewn back up, but your brain wouldn’t be in there.
Then the obvious question came up: why.
Hayleigh answered: “Because once you start cutting and taking things out, it is not going to go back.
“You are just going to start to wobble and if things are starting to purge out... best to keep it all contained.
One stunned person commented: “What so when you go see someone in a funeral home before the funeral and they are just laying there and look asleep they have all their organs in a bag in their stomach and no brain in their heads.”
Another said: “I knew everything was put in a bag and put inside, but i never thought about the brain being in there as well. Just goes to show that we’re all just a bunch of skin and bones in the end.”
With a third writing: “This was information I did not need or want to know, interesting but now questioning every funeral I've been to and if they had a postmortem or not.”
And another said: “First time I saw an autopsy in medical school this was one of the most shocking experiences.”