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    Morticians use spikey contacts to keep the eyelids of the dead closed at funeral viewing


    Morticians use spikey contacts to keep the eyelids of the dead closed at funeral viewing

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    3. WebFantastic9076 on

      I really don’t like people touching my eyeballs, could we do spiky glasses instead

    4. tapeforpacking on

      I hope when I die im immediately thrown into the incinerator. Maybe others feel differently but I dont want anyone touching my dead body 

    8. Cmundz1 on

      Imagine if someone is wrongly thought to be dead by everyone, only to realize at the funeral that they are now awake in the casket alive and in agonizing pain screaming cause of these things.. and nobody able to take the things off either

    11. PocomanSkunk on

      What’s wrong with glue? These contacts seem unnecessarily gruesome (the spikes dig into the flesh to keep them in place) and wasteful of whatever material is used in making the contacts.

    14. franky07890 on

      I have heard about people being declared ‘dead’ but weren’t. Nice to wake up and find your eyelids nailed to your eyeball 😂

    15. Peakomegaflare on

      I know someone who’s mom was a mortician. I heard some wild stories, but the wildest was the “human soup” incident. There was a trailer in a mobile home park that some REALLY obese old guy lived in. Died from a heart attack in his recliner at the start of May in Central Florida. Nobody found him until the end of June when someone heard a loud slam and a wretched odor began to seep through the area. It turned out he literally exploded in his living room during a record heat wave. When she got the body… or what was left of it, she apparently documented that preparing it was akin to “working with silly putty that’s been put in a microwave and pissed in.”

    18. painful_butterflies on

      My dumb brain immediately thought “Christ that’d hurt”… Then I realised…

    21. Desnomie on

      I knew about this fact for the last 10 plus how ever years. But at my aunties funeral a month ago, there was so little room for these thoughts to appear.

    24. GeneticPurebredJunk on

      I have really bad dry eyes, which makes my eyelids itchy. I don’t blink properly and can’t close my eyes properly when I sleep.

      Part of my brain is whispering that these are the solution.

    25. TehOccifer on

      i have a core memory from when i was 3 of trying to open my father’s eyes at his wake and not being able to

    26. Serana_Dragon on

      Spikey eye caps aren’t the only option! We also use non spikey ones that we coat in a cream that’s sticky so that holds the eyelid shut. It’s called stay-cream!

    29. DIOsNotDead on

      ever since i learned this fact a long time ago, whenever i’d visit the wake of a late relative or friend, i was able to notice the vaguely spikey texture of the contacts under some of their eyes, especially older relatives since of course their skin is thinner

    31. DerpyMillenial on

      They also have to sew the mouth shut, otherwise we would all be in the casket like 😵

    32. Whooptidooh on

      And I’m glad they do; I do not want to look at the glassy droopy eyes of someone that has died when I go to their funeral.

    35. Creepy_Accident_1577 on

      A lot of the times they sew the eyelids together on the inside of the waterlines. These contacts definitely seem like a better option though because eyes lose a lot of water so they’ll get sunken in, at least these contacts will stop that from happening.

    37. LoreOfBore on

      The spikes help the eyelids stay shut. There’s also a mouth former that does the same trick to keep the mouth closed. Same principle with the spikes on the inner lip.
      Sometimes the eyes essentially “deflate”. The eye caps help maintain a more natural shape for viewings of the deceased.

    45. Desi_Rosethorne on

      Yeah this is one of the reasons why I don’t want to be embalmed. Just let me decompose naturally. I wanna feed the trees and the plants. I don’t wanna be pumped full of chemicals and tampered with, I just wanna return to the earth.

    46. removedI on

      Hey, my father is a mortician. I’ve helped out many times. Never heard of these. We’ve always used skin glue. Also ama

    47. riff_rat on

      I worked as a surgical specialist in organ and tissue recovery ages ago. We would also insert these after recovering corneas from consented donors.

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