S1 Ep7: The Mortician (part 2)

Our Dads Died

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This week Victor Mortician Sweeney returns and things get graphic, sad and hilarious. Subscribe to always get the latest episode and PLEASE TELL A FRIEND ABOUT THE PODCAST!

Episode Notes:

• Introduction: 0:00
  • This episode has Victor M. Sweeney again!
  • Skip to 47:00 to get to our chat at the end
• Some gruesome stuff: 2:45
  • How do you remove organs from a body?
  • Three types of, uh, ‘purges’
  • This is the hardest podcast to listen to ever
• Blood, guts, and decomposing bodies: 7:54
  • Putting a tarp on someone who had no clothes
  • The things that are missing
  • How to deal with blood-guts
• The importance of respect for the body in the industry: 14:21
  • Liver size vs face size
  • Hierarchy of grief, slipperiness and aggressive attitudes
  • The death of Rich’s dad
• Rich’s wallet story: 19:06
  • Keeping his dad's wallet
  • Lonely on his own
  • Tom’s dad had cancer, a classic cancer story
• When you see someone when they’re just about to die: 22:41
  • Seeing someone about to die
  • Long and drawn-out death weirdly has benefits
  • Victor’s best friend.
• Victor’s friend died in 2018: 26:42
  • The day before his birthday, Victor’s friend was found hanged
  • The funeral
  • How his job affects how he deals with death
• Who is the funeral for? 31:17
  • Depression, anxiety and hyperventilation during the funeral
  • Funeral for the person who died and for everyone else too
• Dreams of death: 35:38
  • Victor’s dreams of his friend and a hug
  • Side-hustling as a headstone engraver - making things look good in 100 years
  • Cremated remains vs non-cremated remains
• Rich’s dad’s gravestone is made of granite: 42:43
  • Not big on scattering, divvying or cremation jewellery
  • The impending zombie apocalypse
  • Will Victor be spared?
• It is illegal in the United Kingdom to scatter someone’s ashes on private property: 47:19
  • Two years on from the episode recording, where’s Tom’s dad?
  • It's illegal in the United Kingdom to scatter ashes on private property without the land owner’s permission.
  • Rich's dad's ashes in a tip.
  • Tell a friend and spread the gift!