• Ep 107: This Mortician Prepped 4,000 Dead Bodies

  • Apr 1 2024
  • Length: 59 mins
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Ep 107: This Mortician Prepped 4,000 Dead Bodies

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  • Juan Cias has been a Mortician for 18 years and seen 4,000 dead bodies. We talk about embalming bodies, sewing limbs back together, sickening crime scenes, smell of decomposing bodies, beauty of death, "hot" corpses, Mike's grandma passing, & more.

    Time Stamps:
    0:56 - we live and we die
    1:51 - how many dead bodies has Juan seen?
    2:49 - the emotional story behind the people passing stays with you
    5:42 - stories of seeing violently mangled bodies
    6:59 - Juan got into funeral directing to see crazy things
    8:21 - some police are scared to move dead bodies
    9:36 - the most horrible crime scene with a homeless person
    11:52 - what decomposing bodies smell like
    13:02 - decomposing body vs farts
    14:31 - the embalming process is tough
    15:32 - sewing up process of the corpse
    19:32 - the difference between coroners, embalmers, and morticians
    21:20 - death gets people turned on
    23:33 - how Juan got started in standup comedy
    25:26 - Juan goes to therapy for seeing so many dead bodies
    27:01 - death changes your outlook on life to not take things personally
    28:32 - mike shares a moment he had when is grandma passed
    30:19 - respecting the corpse & middle age isn’t accurate
    34:48 - old people are scared of morticians
    37:11 - seeing “hot” corpses
    39:48 - rise in fentanyl = rise in death rate in younger population
    41:32 - dating is hard as a mortician
    46:58 - don’t end your life- you’re hurting those around you
    50:27 - mike wrote down all the ways he could end himself & got lazy
    52:28 - Juan believes he’ll be alone forever- but he has his friends
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