• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    There was some (mildly) famous case, I think a book was written about it, of a woman who was a necrophiliac and worked at a morgue. There was a big reddit thread about it years ago.

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      Bit chauvinistic to assume women can’t be necrophiles if they put their minds to it, innit?

      Unlike the FBI I don’t make crass assumptions about my perverts.

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    so i guess it was a massive red flag when i asked them how many cameras were in the room during my interview

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      It’s not even true, classic internet misinformation. I’m shocked Lemmy isn’t calling it out, it’s slowly becoming reddit

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        just your run of the mill misandry.

        personally I’m all for it. I’m an equal opportunist and believe that all sexes and orientations are pieces of shit.

        people are fucking disgusting.

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      I had an ex who worked in this field, she went to mortuary school and worked in mortuaries, before that she worked in organ transplant. She went into the field because of a combination of personal tragedy (a close one passing away at an early age) and seeing how delicately the mortuary handled the event.

      Anyhow, she and I would talk about it often. One of the things she would note on, wasn’t that it was sexual based things men would do (besides general office sexism coming from men on occasion), but more about the level of respect they showed the deceased. Crude Comments they’d make about their weight, features etc…

      So I think it just depends and it would be difficult to verify these other claims because the “victims” are deceased and most things related to it seem to be anecdotal.

      I’m also not going to google necro in anyway

      (Also yes, she was kinda emo/metal an had some pretty sick tattoos)

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        seeing how delicately the mortuary handled the event

        I sure wish I’d had this experience with the funeral home I picked out when my dad died. I called them to arrange to pick up his body, and the answering service was AI and obviously so. I gave them his name and the voice read it back to me to confirm it as “Robert common name R-O-B-E-R-T, Smith common name S-M-I-T-H”. Then the owner ghosted me for more than a week and only delivered the urn with the ashes in the night before the internment at 8:00, left it outside and split before I could talk to him. 8 grand well spent.

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        True. Humans only become valuable once they are dead.

        They only say you were a good person once you are dead, say you were too young, they go “if only we knew, they seemed fine” if you kill yourself, then go to imvestigate, once you are already dead.

        How many writers were ridiculed and rejected, before becoming famous AFTER their death?

        Once you are more like an object, once you have no more feelings, is when they start actually valuing you for what you were.

        Same as how people will value their cars, or precious things more than people.

        Same as how people romanticise native americans, years after they were almost exterminated completelly (while mostly treating those still alive like shit).

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        I just meant in modern times is it a wide spread problem that morticians are fucking the dead. You think that shit would hit the news if it was is all.

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      Shitty pay, crappy hours, being surrounded by the dead all the time… You either gotta love the job or end up loving the dead…

      Some jobs need to be done, but who’s to do them? Can one be completely sane and handle this kind of life without issue for years on end? Most of the people employed tell themselves it’s just a job and spend their time dodging the reality of handling the dead all the time, but a few… well… they go all in.

      Normal is a state of mind that has us come to grips with that which is beyond our control.

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        My wife was in the funeral industry for a while and studying mortuary sciences. She says she left because it was too depressing being pressured to upsell grieving families all the time.

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      I’m guessing it’s hard to come by reliable stats. It’s on the same level as priests abusing children, the cover-up would be extensive. But, it’s even harder, because the corpse can’t testify in court, or make a YouTube video.

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      You know that Dr. Who meme? The one where the blonde woman asks “Is it a lot?”

      Just think of it that way.

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        Clara is a brunette, I just want to clarify that in case people get confused about which meme. :) (It took me a sec)

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    Reminds me of the old Tom Lehrer joke:

    "…a story about a young necrophiliac who finally achieves his boyhood ambition by becoming coroner.

    … The rest of you can look it up when you get home."