This Is What Happens To Your Body After You Die

Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - 14:50 in Health & Medicine

“It might take a little bit of force to break this up,” says mortician Holly Williams, lifting John’s arm and gently bending it at the fingers, elbow and wrist. “Usually, the fresher a body is, the easier it is for me to work on.”Williams speaks softly and has a happy-go-lucky demeanor that belies the nature of her work. Raised and now employed at a family-run funeral home in north Texas, she has seen and handled dead bodies on an almost daily basis since childhood. Now 28 years old, she estimates that she has worked on something like 1,000 bodies.Her work involves collecting recently deceased bodies from the Dallas–Fort Worth area and preparing them for their funeral. read more

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