I work in a funeral home – here is the weirdest thing we have to do to bodies

MORTICIANS use many products and procedures when dealing with dead bodies at funeral homes — and some might surprise you.

One funeral director and embalmer took to TikTok to share some funeral secrets that she uses to prepare people for burial.


Evie Rodriguez, known on the app as retseleve, has created a 43-part series where she showcases items used in funeral homes.

Among the strangest items that the funeral director mentions are rubber bands to position the hands of the deceased, super glue, glass vials for preserving locks of hair, and adult diapers to catch fluids that might leak from the body.

In her latest addition to the series, the TikToker demonstrates on a mannequin how plastic dental simulators are placed under a deceased person's lips to reshape the mouth in a video with over 150,000 views.

Rodriguez details many products applied for showing the body post-mortem, such as super glue to close the lips, flesh-colored eye caps, arm positioning blocks, pigmented cosmetics, and fake eyebrows.

The embalming process is explained through products like an embalming machine, powders and gels, skin seal, and soap to bathe the body before, during, and after the embalming.

She also mentions items used to protect the people that spend time with the bodies, like respirators, PPE, and smelling salts in case someone faints.

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Rodriguez, who works as a funeral director in Illinois and freelances as an embalmer on the side, has accumulated around 4.4million likes on her informative videos about topics that might usually be considered taboo.

Rodriguez is also known for explaining common mortuary practices like embalming, cremation, and applying makeup on a corpse, and she's advised her viewers on how to start a career in the death-care industry.

She breaks down post-mortem care in terms that are easy to understand for people who have not been through mortuary school or even for those who haven't experienced a funeral before.

In one video, Rodriguez shows how she uses makeup specifically created for the deceased called Kalon Pigment.

"Mortuary cosmetics are NON-THERMOGENIC which means they easily blend on cold skin," she explained.

"Regular cosmetics are THERMOGENIC which means it relies on the heat of the skin to blend and apply properly.

"I know someone is going to ask if this can be used on the living and actually stage actors use NON-THERMOGENIC cosmetics — it does not easily melt under stage lighting."

If you're interested in the death-care industry, read about this funeral director's tale of her time in the business.


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