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  • @Momcat_maggiefelinefan
    @Momcat_maggiefelinefan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1310

    Retired ER nurse. Even very fresh corpses, as in seconds or minutes, look dead. Saw far to many in my 30+ years of nursing, but once the lights go out, it’s very obvious that nobody’s home. I hold morticians in very high esteem. You do such important work, seldom deal with the better side of humanity, but you’ve got the greatest sense of humour and are a talented orator. Thanks for your channel!

    • @InterestsMayVary2234
      @InterestsMayVary2234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      I wish I had known this when my dad died. He was removed from the respirator and, once he passed, they allowed us to come back and see him again. We were there when he died but needless to say, had to step out and take a minute after his last breath. They sat him up which made his head sag and his mouth sag open. It upset me more than actually watching him die.

    • @sabrecrafted7409
      @sabrecrafted7409 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Can confirm. Not a nurse, but have medical training (in both human and veterinary fields) and was a caretaker for my grandmother a few years back. Called in my mom (who IS an RN) to confirm Cheyne Stokes/VT and get everyone who wanted to be there in the room.
      Did the same a few days ago with my aunt.
      Passing occurred moments later in both cases.
      It's pretty obvious, and it's not something I expected to happen with any regularity in my life but here we are.

    • @mimiadams247
      @mimiadams247 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Interesting. The nurses took out my Mom's respirator (she was already dead) out and cleaned her mouth and face, closed her eyes and mouth, and she was still the beautiful woman I will always remember and DID look like she was sleeping. So much so that when my son came in to see his Grandma, not knowing she'd passed while he was on his way 😞 I had to hold him and tell her she was gone.
      Those nurses must have done an awesome job while we were outside the room waiting while they prepared her body. They were just all around amazing, letting us stay with her body several hours, checking on us every so often to see if we needed anything... Oh crud. I'm crying my darned eyes out now.

    • @Momcat_maggiefelinefan
      @Momcat_maggiefelinefan ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@mimiadams247 The nurses who cared for your mother were dedicated workers and knew the impact of a family seeing their deceased loved one. That was a true act of kindness. Unfortunately, in an ER death, it’s automatically a coroner’s case according to Canadian law. Can’t remove any of the equipment or tubes or whatever until the coroner says so. All that strange, scary medical stuff stays where it is until the coroner clears it. Shocking dose of realism to the family, frequently upsetting, but all we could do was explain why, reassure them that everything would be gone when they saw the body again. Sometimes I wonder how the family feel about the law.

    • @mimiadams247
      @mimiadams247 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Momcat_maggiefelinefan Yeah my mom was in the ICU, not ER. In the ER they might not have let us stay so long, I don't know though.

  • @des5592
    @des5592 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4127

    Turns out, the difference between “Let’s eat, Grandma”, and “Let’s eat Grandma” was some molasses. 😂

    • @Hollylivengood
      @Hollylivengood 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Right? That lady just reched right over and stuck her finger in granny and ate some granny. Holy questionable holy shit. I'm totally cool, by the way with getting eaten by animals.

    • @jersey282
      @jersey282 3 ปีที่แล้ว +149

      @@Hollylivengood Did you miss the flashing text that stated she ate the substance before they put the ashes in?

    • @Hollylivengood
      @Hollylivengood 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      @@jersey282 Why yes I did, I was knitting. Sorry. Still funny though.

    • @elihinze3161
      @elihinze3161 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I am absolutely SCREAMING

    • @beautybyfro6624
      @beautybyfro6624 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I almost vomit 🤮 when see taste it 🤯

  • @sedunker5485
    @sedunker5485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2344

    Regarding how bad of a corpse "Bernie" is: I remember years ago reading a comment by the actor that he at first tried to be more inert and corpse-y, but it wasn't FUNNY, and it was ruining the movie. So he made the decision to play Bernie as if he were alive. Basically, since the premise was so cartoonishly unrealistic, the corpse had to be cartoonishly unrealistic as well for the humor to work.

    • @PeachPlastic
      @PeachPlastic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      This is exactly what I thought, thank you for the confirmation!

    • @todessehnsucht
      @todessehnsucht 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Weekend at Bernie's is such a fun movie.

    • @rhayat10
      @rhayat10 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Also, he would have gotten whiplash if he'd let his head flop around. Who wants to do that?

    • @Gamble661
      @Gamble661 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Katherine Mary Stewart was in Weekend at Bernie's....nuff said.

    • @allenbooth5193
      @allenbooth5193 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      How about Joe Diffie's video "Prop Me Up By the Jukebox"?

  • @D_01I
    @D_01I ปีที่แล้ว +273

    I have Thanatophobia, which is a severe death phobia, and this channel has helped immensely to think death positive, and about the green death industry. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

    • @mangojules5736
      @mangojules5736 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I think the entire world is at least a little scared of death, including myself, or at least avoidant of it, I’m so grateful for her content for me and for everyone else because she handles it so fantastically and spreads such amazing awareness:)

    • @D_01I
      @D_01I 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mangojules5736 Absolutely!

    • @tysonw81
      @tysonw81 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I got over fear of death by worrying more about the death of other loved ones. Not necessarily a great trade-off. From a philosophical standpoint, though, I try to understand it as a necessary result of living itself. If life is worthwhile, which I believe it is, then death is one of the necessary prices that must be paid in return. It is, indeed, unpleasant--those who do not feel so are better off and maybe know something I don't--but acknowledging that it is, to the rest of us, is healthy, too. The trick is, I think, being able to acknowledge the unhappy truths of life while being able to face them and still live as fully as possible.

  • @themintgreenspaceship5787
    @themintgreenspaceship5787 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16041

    Who wants more of "Caitlyn is doing whatever the heck she feels like" content 🙋‍♀️💕

    • @morganstiefvater2019
      @morganstiefvater2019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +222

      Content that the creator is invested in is inherently more captivating in my opinion. The passion comes through.

    • @Angie_Onaleta
      @Angie_Onaleta 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      🙋🏿‍♀️🙋🏿‍♀️🙋🏿‍♀️🙋🏿‍♀️

    • @shell2835
      @shell2835 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@morganstiefvater2019 💯💯💯

    • @edgarbucksnortesq.5106
      @edgarbucksnortesq.5106 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      It has six hundred and sixty-six likes.
      ANALYSIS PARALYSIS

    • @rachelthebob
      @rachelthebob 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Meeeee!

  • @Mrs_Ella
    @Mrs_Ella 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2015

    Caitlin: "The drying out of the body has a very smoothing effect on the skin."
    Me: **throws away the expensive moisturizing cream**

    • @pawprints1986
      @pawprints1986 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Just keep with the covid sanitizer, youre golden!! :D

    • @yaphi999
      @yaphi999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lmao

    • @estherpelele9956
      @estherpelele9956 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🤣😂🤣😂

    • @br1mst0ne54
      @br1mst0ne54 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      “They call it, the Egyptian cleanse!” - sam’Onella

    • @happyfacefries
      @happyfacefries 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LOL

  • @xxlulabyexx629
    @xxlulabyexx629 3 ปีที่แล้ว +836

    Narrator: "The kid wasn't sleeping. The kid was dead."
    Kaitlyn: G O O D

    • @Swerv0.
      @Swerv0. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Was looking for this comment lmaoo

    • @joniwood4925
      @joniwood4925 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lmao

  • @geofreak75
    @geofreak75 3 ปีที่แล้ว +524

    I spread some of my uncle's ashes in the foundation of my house when placing the concrete. I thought it would be a great way to honor him, he being a home builder and construction worker. And he would always be below holding us up!

    • @leeriches8841
      @leeriches8841 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      That's really nice. Just wondering what you would do when you move home.

    • @centraltime3680
      @centraltime3680 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@leeriches8841 they never replied but im assuming if theyre going to those lengths then that is their forever home :), unless a tragedy were to happen god forbid

    • @ciom9065
      @ciom9065 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I think that’s super comforting and very thoughtful and honoring.

    • @VEttariPEPC
      @VEttariPEPC 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Do you disclose this fact to future buyers???

    • @geofreak75
      @geofreak75 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@VEttariPEPC Lol, this is my permanent home. I'm not going anywhere from here for a while! Not like he died in the house.

  • @n.y.gemini4432
    @n.y.gemini4432 3 ปีที่แล้ว +867

    “The kid wasn’t sleeping. The kid was dead.”
    Caitlin: *GOOD!!!*

    • @lauramaue
      @lauramaue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That one made me choke on my cereal.

    • @justingans679
      @justingans679 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm the 666th person to hit the like button

    • @chellymurphy
      @chellymurphy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me: Caitlin *NOOO* 😅😭

  • @brentstantonfun
    @brentstantonfun 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2539

    Lol. My buddy Kent was that dead guy in Stand By Me. He got this job while we were both studying Film in College at the University of Oregon. Today he still works in Film as a Stuntman and Stunt Coord.

    • @saable8860
      @saable8860 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      Whoah, that's awesome!

    • @maryc327
      @maryc327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      How interesting!

    • @abbymarie9714
      @abbymarie9714 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      thats really cool! also, I live in Eugene pretty near campus so I got really excited when you mentioned UO lol

    • @tananario
      @tananario 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@abbymarie9714 I loved living in Eugene. Go Ducks!

    • @abbymarie9714
      @abbymarie9714 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@tananario haha go ducks!

  • @zoesaverage
    @zoesaverage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +784

    Only Caitlin saying "it's a tombstone for you mum!" would ever sound like a compliment and not a threat.

    • @joyboricua3721
      @joyboricua3721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Indeed, an honour... That's love

    • @the4tierbridge
      @the4tierbridge 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That still sounds like a threat.

    • @suet.r.4815
      @suet.r.4815 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol!

    • @suet.r.4815
      @suet.r.4815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@the4tierbridge Not in the way that she says it... But inflection is definately important in such a statement.
      It doesn't translate well to text at all!

    • @1MegArbo
      @1MegArbo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ha! I was thinking that, too!

  • @jen1748
    @jen1748 2 ปีที่แล้ว +403

    So I was looking at a possible terminal diagnosis, and I wound up watching hours of these videos. It sounds crazy but it was really comforting while waiting for test results. I'm fine, but my lifelong terror of death changed to an acceptance and respect that has made my life better. The passage of time towards an inevitable end that i feared used to make life miserable. I think it desensitized me a bit. Being able to laugh about something scary is the best way to conquer any fear. Thank you so much.

    • @Daelyah
      @Daelyah ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I hope that your journey has been enriching and gave you plenty of beautiful moments, and that if the end has already found you, that your passing was either peaceful or glorious.

    • @PurpleNoir
      @PurpleNoir 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’m sorry for whatever fear and pain you are going through pal. ❤
      My heart goes to you

    • @GrlyPrincess
      @GrlyPrincess 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Just now seeing this. Wherever you are, I hope you’re in peace.

  • @katiesdumbvideos5418
    @katiesdumbvideos5418 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2242

    The inventor of the Pringles can was so proud of his invention he wanted his ashes stored in one. Can we get a video about iconic ashes?

    • @danielleking262
      @danielleking262 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      What about the rumor of Walt Disney being cryogenically frozen? 😁

    • @angeltomlinson2635
      @angeltomlinson2635 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@danielleking262 she already did a video on that

    • @danielleking262
      @danielleking262 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@angeltomlinson2635 Ah, okay. I am new to the watching her channel and have only seen a handful so far.

    • @cindepianist9986
      @cindepianist9986 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@angeltomlinson2635 I gotta check that out! Thanks 😊

    • @NannupTiger
      @NannupTiger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      off topic but the new Pringle containers are so narrow l can no longer fit my slim, lady hand into the tube... I'm hoping it it so there is less packaging for trash/dump sites or to recycle 🤔

  • @Thinking-OutLoud
    @Thinking-OutLoud 3 ปีที่แล้ว +746

    “No ones asking” is my absolute favourite section on this channel

    • @LeoTheHero
      @LeoTheHero 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/jUfPTTt8eh0/w-d-xo.html

    • @CatrionaCharles
      @CatrionaCharles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No one's asking and we're here for it.

    • @Mrsjam96
      @Mrsjam96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Mine too! I think she should stick with it for many years! I find it soiooo intriguing!

  • @karateinvalids
    @karateinvalids 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3980

    Your “no one’s asking” topics are always, like, the DEFINITION of “I didn’t know I needed this”

    • @wavi_DXM
      @wavi_DXM 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Indeed!

    • @katherinemorelle7115
      @katherinemorelle7115 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Exactly. I didn’t ask... but I would have if I’d thought of it!

    • @izawarszawska
      @izawarszawska 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So true!

    • @auroradlg154
      @auroradlg154 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Same! I started watching the video finding myself more excited for the part no one asked for. And boy, it delivered!

    • @alliepaisley9130
      @alliepaisley9130 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      666th like. feeling like a true deathling.

  • @michaelpogue2032
    @michaelpogue2032 2 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    AS someone trained as a hospital / hospice chaplain, I want to thank you for the content of this video, and for promoting the idea of green death, natural decomposition, and conservation. Very well done indeed.

    • @Daelyah
      @Daelyah ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Being a cliché sucker for roses, I want to become fertilizer for a rose garden. Perhaps a few goth-themed flora riddled throughout, as well. No need for my name on any structures, although it would be nice to have a few concrete angels or mythological statues (would love to have fairies, goblins, a unicorn, maybe even have a concrete demon/vampire [perhaps back-to-back with the angel, their hands intertwined]). And maybe have some pleasant benches/picnic tables, or a gazebo, to give people a place to come and relax, perhaps even muse and write.
      I want a fantastical garden for my final rest, to represent how much I daydreamed of myriad fantasy worlds in life.

  • @toothless7849
    @toothless7849 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2976

    My great uncle was cremated and had his remains incorporated into fish food. It was spread in the lake he grew up fishing in. The lake that gave him over 60 years of food was given back the nutrients and matter it provided. Giving ourselves back to nature is a really interesting idea that isn’t really explored much (other than spreading ashes in nature). I’m really glad you included this segment!

  • @TSKseattle
    @TSKseattle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1860

    I would think that "being eaten by animals" would be more like "throw me out in the deep woods and let nature do its thing", as opposed to cremating and mixing the ashes in to food.

    • @wyvernquill2796
      @wyvernquill2796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +169

      Search Sky burial a practice in parts of India, Mongolia and especially the Tibetan Plateau where the ground is hard and rocky and fuel trees are scarce. The body is "opened" and place on a remote hill or mountain that has spiritual or religious reputation. Then they are consumed by animals mainly birds

    • @tantejohan
      @tantejohan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      Well its not legal, so she's just tryin to find a way around it

    • @NepheleButler
      @NepheleButler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      That is generally the desire, and the goal,, but it's not legal yet. So we have to add a couple steps to make "eaten by animals" work with current laws.

    • @StrangeSweetDreamer
      @StrangeSweetDreamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That's what I was thinking when she said that!

    • @SuperMaudina
      @SuperMaudina 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I would worry that eating ashes is not great for the animals' health. That conflicts with my love of nature and this love is what prompted my desire to be eaten by animals after my passing. Another problem there is the pollution from my cremation. So no, that doesn't work. Hopefully laws will change before I pass!

  • @napatora
    @napatora 3 ปีที่แล้ว +748

    i love how caitlin's "i've been on youtube for 10 years" collage looks like it could've been taken within the span of a week. she truly is immortal.

    • @CheshireCad
      @CheshireCad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +149

      The year is 2092. Caitlin stands in front of a mirror, raven-haired and radiant, frantically looking for grey hairs. "C'mon, you stupid meatsack flesh-prison, start decaying already. I wanna get eaten by a Pomeranian."

    • @harveyabel1354
      @harveyabel1354 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@CheshireCad "In a costume".

    • @nofunmercury7611
      @nofunmercury7611 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      maybe she has a hidden portrait of herself thats getting older as time goes on, a la dorian gray

    • @Insertusernamehere2248
      @Insertusernamehere2248 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Well someone has to stay alive to take care of all the dead people

    • @BlackKoshka23
      @BlackKoshka23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Maybe she is a reaper, sent to earth to teach us humans not to fear Death.

  • @thefangirlfromhell9627
    @thefangirlfromhell9627 2 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    I found my first in the wild corpse last week. It was my neighbour and I can confirm from seeing one embalmed and coffin presented corpse and one unprepared -found in the place where they died- corpse there is absolutely no energy feedback and it’s very eerie. Like you know there’s nothing inside. No soul. They’ve departed. It’s like that little hum or vibration of life that follows you around wherever you go has gone. Dissipated. That’s the only uncomfortable part. Once you get past that… It’s just a body.

    • @carlwilliams6977
      @carlwilliams6977 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I worked on an aviation case in which a helicopter's rotor sliced and diced the occupants. It really drove home the fact that despite our notion of exceptionalism as humans, when it comes down to it, we really are just beef!
      The funny thing is that when I first started working on the case, I could only look at the pictures for about 5 minutes before needing to take a break. Within a week I had them sprawled on my desk while I was eating lunch!

    • @Harmoniewheeler
      @Harmoniewheeler 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      There is a silence. Somehow the air is quiet.

    • @karma-ns4hb
      @karma-ns4hb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Harmoniewheeler I absolutely agree. It's like even the air stops moving. Like everything is grieving with you.

    • @Chuck_EL
      @Chuck_EL ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ​​​@@carlwilliams6977 I was ten and it was a woman in a forest that was laying by a tree...she had an overdose I found out later from hearing adults , the way her neck and head looked never left my sight
      And the scary part it was almost similar to stand by me except me and my kids I was with was playing around and accidentally saw her laying on a tree

  • @ElleCee62978
    @ElleCee62978 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2191

    My sister died in 2019. I found her; she had passed suddenly from a bad heart. As I was waiting for the paramedics to come to declare her, I stayed with her and brushed her hair and painted her nails. I wear a locket with her ashes today.

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 3 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      The carbon can be pressed into diamonds now.

    • @Sakkeru96
      @Sakkeru96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +342

      That's really lovely that you were able to do her hair and nails, and that you wear that locket. I think that's a really positive way to approach such a close death.
      It's not quite the same but I wear a ring and necklace set that my grandmother gave to me, I wear them in her memory. At New Year (when we used to visit her) I drink gin and bitter lemon, which was her drink of choice.
      Maybe TMI but I've typed it all out now. Memories are personal and important. Even though I'm a stranger to you, I'm glad you have good ones.

    • @simplyme8009
      @simplyme8009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      My deepest condolences.

    • @amyball3342
      @amyball3342 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      I'm so sorry about your sister. I'm always afraid I will find my sister no longer alive, she's my best friend and she hates me right now bc of her addiction.

    • @lunaballuna
      @lunaballuna 3 ปีที่แล้ว +142

      When my best friend committed suicide in December, I went to his wake and cussed him out for not telling me he was so depressed and then took a piece of his hair and one of his gauges out of his left ear (luckily I was one of only 7 who was allowed to go, so no one noticed and let me go in alone). I was so angry with him for so long and every time I would think about him, I only felt fury. But then I wrote a 12 min song to express my emotions, posted that shit to TH-cam, and finally felt at peace with his decision. I'm still extremely upset about loosing him, but now I don't feel that pent up anger that I use to feel.

  • @prettyevil6662000
    @prettyevil6662000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +421

    I love the idea that Norman Bates just royally fucked up preserving his mother. It fits so well with the themes.

    • @ulalaFrugilega
      @ulalaFrugilega 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lol!

    • @thomasfolio4357
      @thomasfolio4357 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      It did look more like the dolls made out of dried apples.

  • @chriss6356
    @chriss6356 3 ปีที่แล้ว +894

    "the kid wasn't sleeping...the kid was dead" Caitlin: "GOOD!!!!"

  • @thegoldencrystal9677
    @thegoldencrystal9677 2 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    I love all of the odd ways that you can have your remains treated after death. The animal feed, the mushroom casket, and my personal favourite, tree burials. I've seen caskets that grow into trees, and there are the remains from hundreds of years ago that are found in tree trunks themselves. That would be a way to rest. Someone is trying to cut down your tree and they see your skull peeking through a gap in the bark.

    • @MalissiaCreates
      @MalissiaCreates 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tree burial is my first choice if available. I’d like to be the nutrients for a thriving fruit tree that people and animals can enjoy. 2nd choice is recompose which is available in my state (yay 😃) and now this option as feed!! Love it

    • @mizushirokanon9174
      @mizushirokanon9174 ปีที่แล้ว

      And now you found yourself in the new Law and order or Bones episode😂

  • @marianissa2438
    @marianissa2438 3 ปีที่แล้ว +695

    narrator: "the kid was dead..."
    catilin: "good!" 😃

  • @AHam-lq9fq
    @AHam-lq9fq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +687

    I love how she’s like “Screw you, I make whatever content I want. Deal with it.”

    • @beep8704
      @beep8704 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      goth jenna marbles

    • @k.m.223
      @k.m.223 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@beep8704 next thing you know Caitlin will be making a chair out of mourning clothes. 😆

    • @nerdyninjatemptress
      @nerdyninjatemptress 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Its super refreshing. I love it.

    • @marialindell9874
      @marialindell9874 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      333 & r3

    • @wonderwend1
      @wonderwend1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And we will watch it with relish like the good little Deathlings that we are

  • @Margar02
    @Margar02 3 ปีที่แล้ว +453

    "Why give us something we didnt ask for?"
    Because we didnt know we wanted it until our death mother told us!

  • @ihatedavidbowie
    @ihatedavidbowie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I don't completely understand why, but when I saw the animals eating the food blocks, I started crying, and felt so happy, and peaceful. It's just so beautiful.

  • @user-pt1cz4ot1e
    @user-pt1cz4ot1e 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1719

    Well, my grandma passed away right before Christmas. I decided to take Caitlin’s advice and got involved with her preparation. I did her nails before burial and just spent some time with her. It was awkward, because I don’t think that funeral home ever has people wanting to be involved, and someone was pretty much staring at me the whole time, but I’m very glad I did it. It made it easier to accept that she was no longer “in there”, and helped me stop crying as much.
    Thanks Caitlin. I think every funeral home should make that the normal.
    I love the idea of participating when they make those feed blocks. That’s a cool idea for cremated remains.

    • @wonderwend1
      @wonderwend1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

    • @mikki3961
      @mikki3961 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      What a beautiful way to honor your grandma, Sending you love and light.

    • @HistoryRogue95
      @HistoryRogue95 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      That's amazing. I lost my dad around the same time and I wish I could have been more involved in the cremation and stuff, but I wasn't able to. It's so fantastic you got to be with your grandma.

    • @bettycrowe797
      @bettycrowe797 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      I worked in a rest home and we had lots of requests for the dead family members, from please put her dentures back in to the family having a like wake for a few hours with the body which we encouraged and provided food and drinks.

    • @caseybowers6711
      @caseybowers6711 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Sorry for your loss my dear. How absolutely beautiful to read you found comfort in her preparation. My father has been sick (cancer sucks!!!) for the past 5 years... He is an amazing fighter and hope he will be with us for another 30+ years but know the odds are against. Watching Kaitlins videos and now being educated on different ways to be involved with loved ones after death is comforting. When my MIL passed away my husband did not want to go see her, I do feel it made it more difficult to morn her death. She had called everyone over the day before saying she felt she was not getting better after having pneumonia for a couple months, she smoked and had COPD, the next morning she went into cardiac arrest at home. She was declared at the hospital and brought to the morgue by the time we drove the 45 mins to her home. I had asked him several times if he wanted to go see her to say goodbye/closure etc., he refused. She was cremated and to this day (11 years later), I know he regrets not going.

  • @Dyan713
    @Dyan713 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1010

    Only Caitlin can say "Tombstone for you, Mom!" and it's a sweet gesture rather than a threat.

    • @heliotoro
      @heliotoro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      But also the most weird thing to say to a mom

    • @danielleking262
      @danielleking262 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      OMG I didn't even think about it in that context, hahahaha!!!

    • @Omnywrench
      @Omnywrench 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Unless you're talking about frozen pizza

    • @angelemeana3741
      @angelemeana3741 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Please don't make evil normalized please! GOD IS COMING REPENT! BEFORE IT'S LATE!!!! Be baptized with Holy Spirit and water. Deuteronomy 30:19 "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live."
      God isn't an monster God loves you and so do I. Give your life to Jesus Christ and repent of all your sins, even the ones you've committed in the past.

    • @MySerpentine
      @MySerpentine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@angelemeana3741 What evil? The pizza?

  • @laurasullivan9263
    @laurasullivan9263 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6708

    Caitlin,
    My husband and I lost our son at 20 weeks pregnant in August. Because of what we learned from you, we were able to successfully advocate for our son and were able to find a funeral home that encouraged us to spend time with him and dress him. It was painful...excruciatingly so. But healing and gave us more time that we badly needed. Thank you Death Mother. It's so hard to be death positive when its your child. But the ability to advocate for our loved ones is priceless. Thank you.

    • @zoeald
      @zoeald 3 ปีที่แล้ว +338

      Sorry for your sad loss, Laura. I'm glad you were able to find some healing through the process. Xx

    • @spiritmatter1553
      @spiritmatter1553 3 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      I’m very sorry for your loss; what a blow. I hope you’ll be able to try again....though of course that won’t ever erase or replace your little boy.

    • @gerileemakes
      @gerileemakes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      I'm so sorry for your loss. My sister died at 24 years old in 2011, before I even knew about any of this, but the funeral home allowed us to dress her and do her make up. It was such a wonderful experience. I will feature those memories forever, as I'm sure you will too.

    • @CherryRedBanshee
      @CherryRedBanshee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      I am so sorry for your loss. It is so hard to stay cool and advocate one the behalf of a loved one while dealing with the worst things possible. I hope you and yours are well and taking care of yourselves.

    • @annacatherineandrews
      @annacatherineandrews 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      I’m so so sorry for you and your husband’s loss, Laura, but I’m so happy you were able to begin the healing process in a healthy place. Bless you and your family, sending positive energy y’alls way💕

  • @una6013
    @una6013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    I’ve been super afraid of anything to do with death for all my life (to the point where I’d refuse to go anywhere near an open casket at a funeral) but I think your videos are actually starting to help me get over my fear.

  • @trixiemcfly8584
    @trixiemcfly8584 3 ปีที่แล้ว +747

    The Goonies probably wouldn't be Caitlin's favorite, because Goonies never say "die". 😏

    • @sixoffcenter80
      @sixoffcenter80 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      I'm surprised we saw a goonies corpse and it wasn't One Eye'd Willie

    • @trixiemcfly8584
      @trixiemcfly8584 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@sixoffcenter80right! Although, now that I think about it... perhaps that is because he was technically skeletal remains vs a corpse? Say, that would have been a great analysis... Do one on cinematic portrayal of skeletal remains next Caitlin! Would One Eyed Willy's skeleton maintained such great posture?

    • @burrowism
      @burrowism 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hell yeah they never say die x

    • @ksmith7402
      @ksmith7402 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Goonies never say die!!

    • @nini626
      @nini626 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This corpse blinks when he falls on the kids.

  • @sheriffpablo
    @sheriffpablo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +588

    10 years, 1 Haircut.

    • @robertforrest7956
      @robertforrest7956 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      A style that Works!!! ☺️

    • @rccook3269
      @rccook3269 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      And it still looks great!

    • @Arismas
      @Arismas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Don't mess with perfection.

    • @RenzXVI
      @RenzXVI 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Technically, she has had MANY haircuts. It's the bangs that are forever.

    • @AbiGodinha
      @AbiGodinha 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Somehow it’s timeless enough that it has looked amazing this whole time!

  • @gentaadjie3587
    @gentaadjie3587 3 ปีที่แล้ว +217

    I love how when people see a freakishly realistic corpse in movies they would just shriek in horror, whereas Caitlin is like "GOOD! THAT'S A GOOD CORPSE!"

    • @squalli1297
      @squalli1297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You would need to be in the business to know what looks realistic & what doesn't. I react the same whenever I see a dead body in a movie. They're getting better at it.

    • @Luka-tq2jn
      @Luka-tq2jn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I don't think anyone would really scream in horror, I don't think I would at least. People would just be really uncomfortable.

    • @altruisticpie9727
      @altruisticpie9727 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dude. This is literally me. And everyone thinks I'm so weird 😂😂 I love these comments.

  • @Jilliberation
    @Jilliberation ปีที่แล้ว +63

    My beloved was an avid fisherman, adventurer, and all around unforgettable 'character'. He pretty much spent his whole life attempting to simultaneously be in as many places at once, as he possibly could. We were pursuing a fisheries degree together, when he died in a drowning accident near our home in 2009, his parents gave me the majority of his cremains. They incorporated their share into a concrete anchor for the swimming dock, out Infront of his childhood home.
    For me (because we'd already promised each other), I painstakingly seeded many hundreds of oysters on the beach in front of our cabin/home, with his cremains. I also put some in a small satchel that was beaded by Alaskan Native Tlingit royalty, along with a few small things that had held dear (so he could watch over and always be a part of his/our beloved cabin) OF COURSE, I donated some of him to a local Marijuana growing operation (I thought that would particularly give him a giggle). THEN I took him along on an Alaskan cruise trip with my family. During that time, I convinced a nice native fellow that I met, to shoot him out of a cannon during a Tlingit 4th of July celebration. Then, I met up with a couple of our friends at his favorite fishing hole (popular with local 'poachers') and left a bit of him there, along with a tribute of his favorite drink, platinum and Pepsi, as well as some of his favorite green grizzly chewing tobacco.
    Back in the day, whenever I got squeamish about baiting a hook with a living creature, because he was such an outdoorsman, he often chided me that "IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FOOD CHAIN"! So, as a final farewell, I thought it most fitting and proper to scatter his remaining cremains at the very head of Glacier Bay, the LITERAL BEGINNING of the food chain, where there is only phytoplankton, diatoms, bacteria and other microplankton feasting in the mineral rich water flowing from the glacier. Further on, they're joined by herbivorous zooplankton, copepods, and krill. Then small fish and crustations, soon, larger fish and on up until you find the full range of marine life all the way to the top of the food chain, as you reach the mouth of the Bay. I think he'd find that EPIC.

    • @genericredcircle8027
      @genericredcircle8027 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Your story is so special. I would love nothing more than to have a partner who would make sure I’m having so much fun and impact regardless of whether I’m alive or not! It’s really incredible for you to honour him like that!

    • @EnderPanReigns
      @EnderPanReigns 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      this is so amazing.

  • @PaulMcElligott
    @PaulMcElligott 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2682

    “Fans of historical embalming.” Talk about a niche audience…

    • @left4twenty
      @left4twenty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +172

      All things considered, it's a very lively fanbase

    • @ebidy
      @ebidy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@left4twenty ha ha

    • @nikolai1326
      @nikolai1326 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      "There are dozens of us! DOZENS!" - super niche audience

    • @HarryStikers
      @HarryStikers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      It's me, she's talking to me.

    • @rroes7319
      @rroes7319 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      History in general is my jam

  • @ruiduarte6620
    @ruiduarte6620 3 ปีที่แล้ว +713

    Actually the “No one’s asking” section was by far the most interesting!!! Thank you so much.

    • @lionessoftor4139
      @lionessoftor4139 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I love the "No one's asking" bits because you don't know what you don't know. This is much better/sanitary option for feeding yourself to animals than just throwing the body in the woods.

    • @Platypi007
      @Platypi007 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It always is.

    • @walterl322
      @walterl322 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same, she always knows the best topics

    • @walterl322
      @walterl322 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lionessoftor4139 umm, throwing your body in the woods would be practically the same as when an animal dies, it’s not really unsanitary, most pathogens can’t survive for long when the person dies... and the body would be gone quite quickly, that’s why you don’t see too many decaying animals in the woods, at least in normal circumstances...

    • @lionessoftor4139
      @lionessoftor4139 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@walterl322 True, but to many large bodies, like humans, might upset that balance. I like people having more options. Also, this might help others find it more, (if you'll forgive the pun) palatable.

  • @SqualorOpera
    @SqualorOpera 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1473

    Caitlyn: **describes a real-life corpse**
    Me, a writer: **chugs information like it’s alcohol**

    • @angelemeana3741
      @angelemeana3741 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Please don't make evil normalized please! GOD IS COMING REPENT! BEFORE IT'S LATE!!!! Be baptized with Holy Spirit and water. Deuteronomy 30:19 "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live."
      God isn't an monster God loves you and so do I. Give your life to Jesus Christ and repent of all your sins, even the ones you've committed in the past.

    • @graysopa
      @graysopa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      @@angelemeana3741 You seem like a hypocrite. You tell them to not normalize evil by pushing it in books and writing, yet you shove your religious beliefs down our throats. I don't want to argue with you just wanted to point something out.
      So if you are going to spread your message don't shove it down people's throat. ok
      God bless your soul 😗

    • @SqualorOpera
      @SqualorOpera 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Bestie, what

    • @JewelWildmoon
      @JewelWildmoon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *Yes* 🤣

    • @izzyjones7108
      @izzyjones7108 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      caitlin is amazing..and I def recommend Mary Roach's book STIFF

  • @aimiemccarley8640
    @aimiemccarley8640 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I loved the “everybody’s asking” content…but I’m so pleasantly surprised at just how much I enjoyed the “nobody’s asking” content!!! I’d never even thought of that as an option and it’s a wonderful concept!! Thank you for sharing!! 🥰

  • @wittsullivan8130
    @wittsullivan8130 3 ปีที่แล้ว +298

    My least favorite thing to see is a movie is when the actors pretend to close a dead person's eyelids, especially when all they're doing is waving their hand over the person's face and their eyelids magically close. Every. Damned. Time.

    • @dontbefatuousjeffrey2494
      @dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Funny how they never seem to show them closing the jaw though. The two bodies I have been present with were both people who died with their mouths open (in hospital) - I gather this is quite common. On the second occasion, I was present when the nurse tried to close the jaw not long post-mortem but it just wouldn't easily, and she didn't want to force it. However she indicated to me that oftentimes they can.

    • @okaminess
      @okaminess 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hahahaha!!!! 👁 👄 👁 Having identified a deceased person and been at bedside for a friend, I think eyelid closing is pretty stupid! It just doesn’t happen. And the thought of doing so is squeamish, honestly.

    • @Tsukuyomi28
      @Tsukuyomi28 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I had a friend that said that's how military medics killed people

    • @williamsstephens
      @williamsstephens 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Tsukuyomi28 - What?

    • @Tsukuyomi28
      @Tsukuyomi28 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@williamsstephens he saw movies and thought that them closing their eyes was what killed them. His ex marine dad agreed and he believed that well into adulthood.

  • @biochemlady
    @biochemlady 3 ปีที่แล้ว +267

    They rarely show the bugs!! In an entomology class I took we got to see a dead deer on a field day and my professor just stared at it and goes “it’s like a whole little world :)” hahaha

    • @Pehmokettu
      @Pehmokettu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      If the corpse is played by a living human then I understand why the bugs are not usually added to the 'corpse'. It is difficult to stay motionless if there are insects crawling on you. :D But nowadays bugs can be easily added as a special effect. :)

    • @gracehaven5459
      @gracehaven5459 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Pehmokettu particularly when one is a child actor haha. But was the body played by a real person or a fake corpse?

    • @ucitymetalhead
      @ucitymetalhead 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Also i imagine that bugs fall under the same rules as other animals when it comes to the humane society watching the treatment of them.

    • @starscreamofvos
      @starscreamofvos 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fact: Animal agriculture in order to keep people blind and buying products that kill us spray carbon monoxide (yes, the poison people use to commit suicide) on flesh which turns it bright red. No flesh is bright red. This is how they hide the green color of the flesh (as all flesh sold in store is older than a week) and keep the decomposition of the bacteria hidden.
      Also, fact, you're a frugivore and eating that flesh is killing you. www.watchdominion.com

    • @mokko759
      @mokko759 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@starscreamofvos Go away, fool. Stop parroting PETA-esque propaganda in a completely unrelated topic.

  • @wilsonli5642
    @wilsonli5642 3 ปีที่แล้ว +571

    "Tombstone for you, Mom!" would sound like a threat in a different context.

    • @andrewalderman9489
      @andrewalderman9489 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So who do you want in your Tombstone !

    • @scotcarr3390
      @scotcarr3390 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "No tombstones for you!"...😁

  • @riyuilee295
    @riyuilee295 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Finally returning to your videos after a long year of battling cancer . I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma , a treatable form of blood cancer , in September of 2020 , and was declared cancer-free and officially completed treatment in July of 2021 . Related as well , my girlfriend lost her best friend to suicide shortly after my diagnosis in October of 2020 . I am only 20 years old , and having to face a serious disease like cancer and watching and supporting my girlfriend through horrific guilt and grief , in the midst of the pandemic , gave me a severe fear of death , worrying that even discussing the topic would “ open the door “ for death and make my condition take a turn for the worst , which was irrational to think , at best . I ended up not touching your videos for awhile . This was very unlike me - I have been subbed to you for around 7 years , and have always embraced the subject of death and mortality , even had a fascination and passion for it .
    So now , after beating cancer and currently being in the slow process of from the toll it’s taken on my body , I have decided it is high time to re-evaluate my relationship with death , and today I have taken to watching some of your videos again , remembering to be gentle and kind with myself in reintroducing the topic to my life . And , by chance , I happened to stumble upon this particular video , and it feels like your Mortal course has come at just the right time . I feel like I could benefit so much from it , and I’m really , really interested to looking more into it .
    That being said , I just want to say thank you on a personal level . I don’t know why I didn’t start watching you again sooner . Your videos are always from such a tactful , understanding , and compassionate angle . You and your channel feel like truly a safe space to face this fear , without worrying I am letting in some kind of bad luck just by exploring the topic - and that maybe opening the door for death is not a bad thing , if only to reach an understanding with it , and in turn be grateful for my survival and the life I have been blessed to keep living .

  • @J.8_909
    @J.8_909 3 ปีที่แล้ว +655

    It would've been awesome if she reacted to "Bones" corpses. There's one every episode.

    • @ailema.4548
      @ailema.4548 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      That's what I was thinking! I also wish she reacted to The Body of Jane Doe, which I was surprised wasn't in the "iconic" corpes.

    • @MangaManiac16
      @MangaManiac16 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@ailema.4548 I was JUST coming here to say this, the actress did a phenomenal job, and the makeup department should have gotten an award

    • @easonbrown7255
      @easonbrown7255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Also NCIS

    • @Heathenharlot666
      @Heathenharlot666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They really did come up with some cool N interesting corpse ideas!!❤💀

    • @heliotoro
      @heliotoro 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What about regular old CSI

  • @pollyflores418
    @pollyflores418 3 ปีที่แล้ว +449

    “No one’s asking” but everyone wants it

    • @titanuranus3095
      @titanuranus3095 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I kind of want to want what ever she tells me to want.

    • @KristenK78
      @KristenK78 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Isn’t that how we ended up here in the first place? Caitlin was the content we wanted but didn’t know to ask for!

    • @karentucker2161
      @karentucker2161 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ikr!

  • @abbydewsnap5070
    @abbydewsnap5070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +722

    Using cremains in feed blocks brings a whole different meaning to "making cookies with grandma."

    • @jessicaclakley3691
      @jessicaclakley3691 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Omg that’s brilliant 😂

    • @earsmusic2229
      @earsmusic2229 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      🤣

    • @ainspains3485
      @ainspains3485 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      like the difference grammar example "let's eat, grandma!" and "let's eat grandma!" every English teacher gives lol

    • @gabrielfernandez7375
      @gabrielfernandez7375 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol

    • @drTERRRORRR
      @drTERRRORRR ปีที่แล้ว

      Ugh...it's actually pure sanitized minerals and micronutrients ;)

  • @paulaward3976
    @paulaward3976 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    In "The Crown" the embalmers tried to keep Princess Margaret out and warned her it would not be pleasant, but she went in anyway.

    • @MarieAnne.
      @MarieAnne. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      OK, I'm not disputing that it happened in "The Crown", but like Kaitlin I'd like to know if this happened in real life.

    • @mysmirandam.6618
      @mysmirandam.6618 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was looking for this but I wanted the answe to Kaitlyns question lol

    • @mysmirandam.6618
      @mysmirandam.6618 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MarieAnne. yup

    • @DevonBennett-h9e
      @DevonBennett-h9e 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MarieAnne. No, she didn't see her father while he was being embalmed.

  • @SpaceDuckQuack
    @SpaceDuckQuack 3 ปีที่แล้ว +430

    I'm not sure if you've ever heard of this, but I've had the opportunity to do it and it is quite sobering and almost honorable tbh. But I am a glassblower and my mentor was asked to make a paper weight that had a family friend's ashes in it. It was so beautiful when it was done, it seemed to sparkle and glisten almost when we added it to the glass. We didn't use all the ashes, just enough to add a trail wrap swirl around the round paper weight. It was a beautiful experience, and as a glassblower, I would love to be honored with doing it again.

    • @jamie22cleveland
      @jamie22cleveland 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Space Duck I would love to be inside someone’s Bong 😂420 for life and death 💀

    • @pattifeit4354
      @pattifeit4354 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That sounds beautiful.

    • @msjkramey
      @msjkramey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@jamie22cleveland I don't know if i could smoke out of a person bong, even if it's just ashes. It seems like it could be meaningful to other people though, so i won't knock it

    • @ladyrepunsel4567
      @ladyrepunsel4567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That would be beautiful! Could other objects be made with ashes? Like for instance a flower vase or something?

    • @grim4669
      @grim4669 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wow what a beautiful concept. You’re awesome :)

  • @theblackbaron4119
    @theblackbaron4119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3115

    The secret ingredient of today's cooking show is grandma.

  • @christinafidance340
    @christinafidance340 3 ปีที่แล้ว +399

    You know, I am always shocked by the whole “will my cats eat me when I die?” question since I actually would want them to rather than starve to death without me able to feed them.

    • @taritangeo4948
      @taritangeo4948 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Exactly. As if i want my pets to starve😥

    • @MaggieTheCat01
      @MaggieTheCat01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Me too! Having said that, they have a cat flap so they could just leave.

    • @caprisun6910
      @caprisun6910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      I knew of a man that passed and his dogs ate him because they were starving. It was so sad because his dogs loved him and im sure it was traumatizing for them to eat their caretaker that they loved so much.

    • @MaggieTheCat01
      @MaggieTheCat01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@caprisun6910
      Poor man, and poor doggos. 😞

    • @margod51
      @margod51 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@caprisun6910 I think they understood that what they ate wasn't him anymore,just what was left behind. The different smell,for one,would tell them of death.

  • @reginamachamer821
    @reginamachamer821 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    I found this channel this morning and have been bingeing ALL day.. I love those rare times where I randomly stumble upon a TH-camr that I instantly and immediately love. Especially ones like this who have been here for YEARS and have TONS of videos for me to watch lol this is great!!! 😆

    • @spankynater4242
      @spankynater4242 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same here. I found this channel this morning. And am enthralled by her voice.

  • @Coyoteari
    @Coyoteari 3 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    “This year I’m doing content for me!”
    Bold of you to assume that’s not exactly what I signed up for

  • @cjsgon2bed
    @cjsgon2bed 3 ปีที่แล้ว +392

    From what I've read ref. King George VI, this was true. Princess Margaret came in to her father's room after he died to see the embalmers getting her father ready to be moved.

    • @nicitha
      @nicitha 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Thank you! Been browsing the comments for way to long, to find someone who knew about this.

    • @fleetadmiralperry5739
      @fleetadmiralperry5739 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I Totally Thought That Was Creative Licensing Margaret Actually Watched An Undertaker Prep George VI’s Body?

    • @charlottelemmers5804
      @charlottelemmers5804 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So the embalmers were actually done with embalming?

    • @charlottelemmers5804
      @charlottelemmers5804 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I don’t think so. Maybe she was let in after the embalmers were done and were just preparing him to be moved. Who knows really. From what I’ve read Margaret was indeed present when her father died, but it’s different from the crown.

  • @gilmourmcleod9133
    @gilmourmcleod9133 3 ปีที่แล้ว +398

    I found a friend's body last year and what Caitlyn was saying about how absent they are is almost inconceivable until you see it in person. I knew she was dead from across the room. She fully wasn't in there anymore.

    • @susanwallace3465
      @susanwallace3465 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Blessings to you!! So sad you experienced this. Peace to your friend!!💞

    • @DavidWilliams-so2dy
      @DavidWilliams-so2dy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Bless you. I’ve been through this also. One of the first responders asked me if I had considered CPR and I responded absolutely not. My friend had been deceased only for a few hours but he was so totally gone. Like a shell.

    • @Hummingbirds2023
      @Hummingbirds2023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Oh yeah you can see the soul is gone.

    • @patriciacarter1007
      @patriciacarter1007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      My condolences & sympathies 💐

    • @karma-ns4hb
      @karma-ns4hb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I absolutely agree. My brother died in April and when I walked into his room I could see that he was no longer there. His body was there, but what made him him...nope completely gone. 911 asked if I was going to attempt cpr and I was like...um he's really gone. Like not just now. She was like oh okay. I was like you don't understand.

  • @TRUECRIMESPTV
    @TRUECRIMESPTV 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    When my mother died, I witnessed the notion of the light going out of someone's eye, and it is a very real thing. It took maybe 5 seconds to her to completely transform into something that simply was not at all my mom.
    Also I love Weekend at Bernie's, and I don't care if he's a terrible corpse.

    • @dominator8245
      @dominator8245 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was anticipating a moment like that but when my mom died, unfortunately cancer apparently provides you with a horrible death, I was confused how the doctors said she was dead when she looked just like before. Of course when someone is not moving, you know they're dead but I felt she was still the same. That was, what was so scary about it. You're so close yet endlessly far away.

  • @JLocke573
    @JLocke573 3 ปีที่แล้ว +308

    "For those of you interested in historical embalming"
    That one guy: "Finally!"

    • @wolfcat1998
      @wolfcat1998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      It's me. I'm that one guy.

    • @JLocke573
      @JLocke573 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@wolfcat1998 I'm really glad that Caitlin caters to your interests. lol

    • @___LC___
      @___LC___ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And me, who suddenly wondered where I could find antique embalming equipment.

  • @eerieechos01
    @eerieechos01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1368

    Caitlin had a Jenna Marbles moment there at the beginning "i'm making content for ME"

    • @ploopydiper
      @ploopydiper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      I miss me time :(

    • @twinkletwinklelittlebat
      @twinkletwinklelittlebat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Am I the only one who doesn't know who jenna marbles is .......¿?

    • @AllTheCloudsArePink
      @AllTheCloudsArePink 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@twinkletwinklelittlebat absolutely you are

    • @MissLilyputt
      @MissLilyputt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ploopydiper I miss it too.

    • @n.y.gemini4432
      @n.y.gemini4432 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      God I miss her

  • @Whookieee
    @Whookieee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +446

    The corpse from Stand By Me frightened me very badly as a kid. Glad to hear it's pretty authentic.

    • @glitterbitesback
      @glitterbitesback 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Same but now as an adult, I just find it so so sad. Like no one found him until those kids. And they just went because they heard a rumour. So like was no one looking for him? Would he have been found if it wasn’t for them going on a very twisted adventure? The silent walk back to town also gets me. The sudden change of emotion in the kids after actually seeing the body hits hard. An equivalent would be people watching true crime and then actually dealing with death in their real lives. It’s very different. There’s a protection that gets completely wiped away when a tv or computer screen isn’t there and you’re just in a room with a body. Wide story: a teenage girl was killed in my town and everyone was looking for her body. Websleuths were going nuts on forums and the whole “I think she’s here, let’s go look for her corpse!” mentality was getting gross. When her body was found, she suddenly was treated like a person and all the talking stopped. They realized she was a human, a child who was murdered, a child who has parents, friends, grandparents, a whole community….sadly it took finding her body for them to realize that.

    • @xTheGoddessOfChaosx
      @xTheGoddessOfChaosx ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same!

    • @mdlanor5414
      @mdlanor5414 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When my son just turned 2 years old in 1984. He watched Goonies on a VCR cassette tape. Every day all day until the tape finally broke. It was hilarious how a 2 year old. Knew how to turn on the TV our VCR and loading a VCR Cassette Tape. My wife and I would have purchased a new VCR Cassette Tape of Goonies. But our 2 year old son was okay with the VCR cassette tape breaking

  • @carolinedarlene8184
    @carolinedarlene8184 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    That Stand by Me corpse TRAUMATIZED me as a kid!!! I always thought he’d be under my bed 😂 but now as an adult I absolutely love this movie!!

    • @spankynater4242
      @spankynater4242 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He was under your bed. But because he was dead, he couldn't do anything.

    • @carolinedarlene8184
      @carolinedarlene8184 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@spankynater4242 HAHAHAHA true!! What I didn’t know didn’t hurt me 😂😂

  • @NEUKSilverSurfer
    @NEUKSilverSurfer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +643

    On TH-cam for 70 YEARS?!?!..and you haven't aged a day!! Wow..I'm in the wrong line of work.

    • @elenaderoet4926
      @elenaderoet4926 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I think there is something Supernatural about her agelessness 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @isobellabrett
      @isobellabrett 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      She's got friends who are embalmers. 😉

    • @faeriesmak
      @faeriesmak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s filters! 😆

    • @demogorgonzola
      @demogorgonzola 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It's like in "Death Becomes Her", someone got their hands on a potion. :)

    • @Culturedropout
      @Culturedropout 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      "Well preserved", you might say...

  • @izziemercury
    @izziemercury 3 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    Having trained as a makeup artist for film and tv, a lot of the time when it comes to doing a corpse you have to make it look less corpselike for the age rating, more family friendly; or alternatively, completely overdo it for shock value and to look good on screen. Rarely are corpses ever done realistically.

    • @MaryWimpey
      @MaryWimpey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      this was what i came to say about the corpse in The Goonies. the "corpse cosplay" aspect (what a great way to describe it) is pretty common in live-action films that are trying to stay in line with standards & practices to achieve a sub-R rating

    • @darlalathan6143
      @darlalathan6143 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MaryWimpey Perhaps they should only show corpses in R-rated movies, as a better compromise.

  • @TheTrycehyman
    @TheTrycehyman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1143

    My mother passed days before this video went up, and it sort of ended up in my suggested as I was grief scrolling. I reached out to Jim, and he has been wonderful to work with. Thank you very much for what you do, I would never have found him otherwise.

    • @CallUNexTuesday
      @CallUNexTuesday 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      I'm sorry for your loss. If you choose this method, it would be sweet. She gave a lot to you so why not let her give back as a final lovely act? 😊

    • @mariannalban7444
      @mariannalban7444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Sorry for your loss. It had to be a blessing that you found this option for your mom.

    • @danielleking262
      @danielleking262 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      That's a beautiful story!! ❤️

    • @Figgatella
      @Figgatella 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      To each their own, but I just lost my beloved dog and wouldn’t want his ashes eaten by otter animals let alone those dearest to me being eaten by animals.

    • @GentleGoosie
      @GentleGoosie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      @@Figgatella I think the one thing to remember is that it probably was or is something the deceased would have loved to choose for themselves. That or the family is working through their grief in a healthy process via Jim’s work/mission. I would also bring up that comments like these could be hurtful to those grieving. Sharing our opinions isn’t bad, but in some instances it’s not necessary and possibly hurtful. Just something to think about is all.

  • @sildragonqueen
    @sildragonqueen 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Honestly, I'd love to see her critique the bodies on bones, probably a bit too on the desiccated side but would still be interesting.

  • @emilyhadden8558
    @emilyhadden8558 3 ปีที่แล้ว +536

    So when she said “I want to be eaten by animals” and the sound effects of the cat made me laugh so hard my ribs hurt

    • @michaelwallace8612
      @michaelwallace8612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's so wrong, it's right! 😆 🤣 😹

    • @maathathor4003
      @maathathor4003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      9999999

    • @flyingdutchman4794
      @flyingdutchman4794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I get the lip-smacking and licking sounds, but, wouldn't there also be 'crunch' occasionally? I mean, isn't a human body sorta the definition of 'chewy on the outside, crunchy on the inside'? Granted, the clip was just a couple of seconds

    • @flyingdutchman4794
      @flyingdutchman4794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I denounce myself

    • @lisetteallen7805
      @lisetteallen7805 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s a segment I didn’t even know I needed!

  • @languageresources2314
    @languageresources2314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    I can totally identify with the new "I'll do what *I* want to do and ya'll can go suck on a barrel of lemons in the meantime" attitude.

    • @jenniferhart559
      @jenniferhart559 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      "Whatever! I can do what I want!!"
      -Eric Cartman (South Park)

    • @languageresources2314
      @languageresources2314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@jenniferhart559 screw you guys, I'm going home!

  • @peepy369
    @peepy369 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    00:54 "No. I've been on TH-cam for _70_ years now, and this year, I'm making content... for *me* ." YES CAITLIN. ABSOLUTELY. PLEASE DO. WE LOVE YOU

  • @cinemaocd1752
    @cinemaocd1752 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have learned a lot watching this channel, but the most shocking thing was the actual plot to Week-end at Bernies 2.

  • @SafetySpooon
    @SafetySpooon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +882

    No, Princess Margaret did not walk in while her father was being prepared for burial.

    • @helpmyspaghettiiseatingme
      @helpmyspaghettiiseatingme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Thought so, it was for the #drama

    • @edstella
      @edstella 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      That's part of what bothers me about the show. It's not a show's responsibility to educate people on history. Their responsibility isn't even to make a good show-- it's to make money for their studio. People should take the initiative to learn themselves because if you have access to the internet, finding reading material that's true, vetted, peer-reviewed, relevant, etc isn't a huge task. BUT the people writing the show and producers knew and know most people are just going to take it as truth. If not truth, then "historical fiction" (that everyone knows is true like a public secret, but is somehow too polite to confirm). But it's not. It's like a movie going "based on true events" when all they get right is people's names and they drama and sex up the rest. In an age where misinformation has disseminated so widely to bloody, disastrous effect and it takes 100x more work to prove truth than spread one lie (and you still don't convince people), that show is a mistake. Caitlyn talked about calm discourse at the start, and that show could've done that, but they didn't. The fact they had to greatly dramatize real people's lives and the lives of their loved ones that still feel the impact of their passings tells me the writers didn't have the chops to just do their own original content.

    • @christinafidance340
      @christinafidance340 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@edstella Sadly, most people do not possess the critical thinking skills required to assess the validity of the things they see, hear, read, etc..... at least out of the people I’ve come across in my 40+ years on Earthd. Rather than doing what you did and recognizing that the sole purpose behind The Crown is to make money, many will watch it and not even think twice about what they saw. Whereas I can’t even watch the news unless I make sure that I watch the same story on at least 3 separate news outlets - one from a conservative leaning channel, one from a left-leaning channel and one or more somewhere in between!

    • @lizc6393
      @lizc6393 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@christinafidance340 @edstella
      Um, guys, it's just a TV show...

    • @privatejoker5403
      @privatejoker5403 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No that’s not Margaret that is Queen Elizabeth and she did

  • @rosethehat2073
    @rosethehat2073 3 ปีที่แล้ว +775

    That sucks that being eaten by animals is illegal considering it’s the most natural thing. I love the idea of cremated remains inside of animal feed, but I’d rather have animals straight up eat my body.

    • @officert5147
      @officert5147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Username checks out lol

    • @Khenfu_Cake
      @Khenfu_Cake 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      It's natural, yes. But I'm worried about the risks we put on these animals due to our modern food industry making it easy for pathogens like prion diseases to become a lot more common among our livestock and then eventually ourselves. Prion diseases in nature are incredibly rare, the only times we can claim they have been an epidemic have been due to human practices (see Kuru and BSE/vCJD as examples: they were both essentially human made plagues).
      I'm not that worried about bacteria or viruses since it's rare for most of them to infect via consumption of a carcass. For the ones that do we can simply prohibit feeding bodies infected with those pathogens to other animals. It's not unusual to demand certain funeral practices due to the risk of disease transmission. For example when smallpox was still around it was mandatory in most countries to cremate anyone who died from the disease, due to the smallpox virus's propensity for persisting for quite a while in a sort of dormant state while still remaining infectious.
      The pathogens I'm worried about are the prion diseases, since not even cremation can fully break down the proteins. You can also carry a misfolded prion around without ever getting sick yourself, but it could infect someone else upon your death via consumption.
      I suppose one way to go about it is the removal of the brain and spine since they carry a much higher risk of transmission than the other parts of your body.
      I mean, don't get me wrong; I'm all for allowing people to have their bodies fed to animals upon death, if that is their wish. But I still think it's important to remember we humans don't exactly live like our ancestors in pre historic times did. Our industrialized society and food production practices have definitely changed the pathogen transmission patterns quite a bit, and I simply do not think it wise to blindly risk passing these problems on to other animals (and in the long run back to ourselves again). At the very least we could employ some safety measures 😊

    • @misseselise3864
      @misseselise3864 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      agreed

    • @misseselise3864
      @misseselise3864 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Khenfu_Cake prion disease is incredibly rare in the wild and domesticated. there’s 6 kinds of prion disease & 300 cases a year combined. family history is the main cause. very rarely, infection from contaminated tissue in a transplant or unclean surgery tools can cause it. you can also get variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease (VCJD) from eating meat infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (aka mad cow disease). we don’t give livestock prion disease, they give us prion disease

    • @Khenfu_Cake
      @Khenfu_Cake 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@misseselise3864 We could if we fed ourselves to them. Kuru spread via funeral cannibalism among the Fore people in Papua New Guinea, so that was definitely humans infecting other humans. Most people when infected likely won't ever get sick, but they probably could pass it on to someone who might get sick. This is the reason why it's prohibited here in Denmark to become a blood donor if you have lived in the UK in the 80's and 90's due to the BSE Crisis.
      The point I was making is that prion diseases are rare, yes, but our meat production practices have absolutely (the BSE Crisis as I reckon you probably know about already occured due to feeding bone meal from cattle to other cattle; effectively spreading the disease to entire herds and then eventually humans) made them more likely to occur via transmission of the misfolded prions.
      Obviously the risk is very low but considering prion diseases are always 100% deadly and you can't really get rid of them when they have first manifested in a population (and you can't sterilize remains either), there's no reason why we can't take some precautions.
      Edit: and no; I'm not a vegan preaching about dangers of eating meat or anything like that. I gladly eat meat lol. I simply care about how pathogens spill over between species and how our behaviour influences this. F.ex. deforestation forcing wild animals closer to us and our livestock; this is how the Nipah virus spilled over to pigs from fruit bats and then eventually humans. Or in the case with prion diseases; the way we feed and process our livestock.

  • @teambeining
    @teambeining 3 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    “Cosplaying a corpse” ... things you do at a mortuary convention.

    • @pigeoncat3786
      @pigeoncat3786 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      mortcon 2021 when?

    • @Gideon13397
      @Gideon13397 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Of course you can if you have a couple of bones to spare.

    • @ZachT
      @ZachT 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Gideon13397 don't you mean of corpse? ah ahh?

    • @Gideon13397
      @Gideon13397 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ZachT I knew I recognized that username somewhere 😅. It's you Zach, how you've been?

    • @VeroSCIA
      @VeroSCIA 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This comment made me laugh too hard! Thanks....

  • @erosheartache2398
    @erosheartache2398 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I know this video is older and i doubt Caitlin will see this, but the end of the video where she is talking about the spreading out of ashes via the food blocks (Deer>Poop>Tree>Bird) made me smile because it reminds me of one of my favorite episodes (# 132) of Welcome to Nightvale called Bedtime Story. Its a sad and beautiful thought exercise what could happen if our consciousness could spread out into the natural world through becoming part of many things post mortem. Thank you for this video! Wonderful as always.

  • @TheWildheartmuse
    @TheWildheartmuse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +302

    My Wasband (fomer husband) died last week and a friend and I were honored to be able to spend time with him after death, washing and dressing him. I wish more people would be ok with this form of last honor. I had never seen a dead person before and was fascinated by the process. He was not embalmed because we chose aquamation. I loved him for 40 years....and now have to live in a world without him.

    • @richardferguson6893
      @richardferguson6893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      So sorry for your loss but I have to say I LOVE the term "wasband".

    • @olaughthelightlyspotting4639
      @olaughthelightlyspotting4639 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      YOU LOVED HIM FOR 40 YEARS,WITH ALL THE GREAT MEMORIES YOU MUST HAVE YOU WILL NEVER BE WITHOUT HIM,BEST WISHES FROM THE FROZEN NORTH

    • @amyelizabethscraftcorner
      @amyelizabethscraftcorner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🙏💜

    • @KatieLHall-fy1hw
      @KatieLHall-fy1hw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sorry for your loss. And good for you for handling it so well. Lots of love from VA in the states.

    • @monty87838
      @monty87838 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I'm sorry to hear this, but I'm glad you got to maintain some post-death rituals.
      P.S. I will be stealing the term 'Wasband'. Its brought joy to my day :)

  • @Aconitum_napellus
    @Aconitum_napellus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +353

    Everything requires a tombstone based rating system.

    • @andrew_owens7680
      @andrew_owens7680 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Except tombstones.

    • @tttm99
      @tttm99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      With mixed connotations.
      "Here CD rates tonight's meal with tombstones... "

    • @yamiatemyugi
      @yamiatemyugi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Within reason of course

    • @m0L3ify
      @m0L3ify 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I give this comment 10/10 tombstones

  • @phantomvir
    @phantomvir 3 ปีที่แล้ว +651

    Can we just take a moment to appreciate just how gosh darn adorable Caitlin is?

    • @maryeckel9682
      @maryeckel9682 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I'm in awe of her bangs.

    • @scarletamazon3455
      @scarletamazon3455 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @arse stain Dank meme, bro. You're so hip with the cool kats

    • @wendychavez5348
      @wendychavez5348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Every day!

    • @instantgratification3925
      @instantgratification3925 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      simp

    • @dandilion8567
      @dandilion8567 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      She made me stop fearing death. It used to keep me up at night thinking about how much I have to do before I die, (im 22) and now, I think about her smiling and saying "hello future corpses" with a certainty that, yes I will die, but I have a long time to get used to it, and I get to choose everything I do before then, and what happens after, and I'm getting better with the anxiety of it all.

  • @l.a.gothro3999
    @l.a.gothro3999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I was raised to understand that death is a part of life. Cremation is a family tradition. I wish I'd known about the feed blocks after my mom's cremation; she would've liked that, I think. But she did want her ashes put on her roses, which I did.

  • @sammy431
    @sammy431 3 ปีที่แล้ว +272

    “But the kid wasn’t asleep - the kid was dead.”
    “Good!!”
    The timing on that one caught me off guard and I got the giggles 😂

  • @DieAlteistwiederda
    @DieAlteistwiederda 3 ปีที่แล้ว +249

    10 years and you don't look like you have aged a day. How is that even possible?
    There must be some embalming involved.

    • @macabrecitrus2127
      @macabrecitrus2127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I mean, she's not around formaldehyde all the time like other funeral directors/embalmers, so that must help lol

    • @lizzie241
      @lizzie241 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      *hides adipocere*

    • @juliasmith960
      @juliasmith960 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      She uses a SECRET recipe!

    • @lynxblackjack2785
      @lynxblackjack2785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I never relised this before but i can't unsee it now.

    • @stuartd9741
      @stuartd9741 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      " _Drinks blood of the corpses_ "
      May also explain the shiny locks?

  • @ileanarenoir9839
    @ileanarenoir9839 3 ปีที่แล้ว +253

    "tombstone for mom!"
    It's truly the only channel where that's wholesome

  • @mikefreeman5002
    @mikefreeman5002 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I loved this episode! I really appreciated the section on using ashes in a compost for animals!
    Good job, Kaitlin!

  • @katw5592
    @katw5592 3 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    "Ashes to ashes, dearly departed to the deer in your yard"
    That's the writing I am here for.

  • @alicev5496
    @alicev5496 3 ปีที่แล้ว +368

    "Pets can safely eat molasses" probably should not have been the most surprising takeaway from this video for me

    • @lilyaltomare4693
      @lilyaltomare4693 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      okay me too lol

    • @YeahNo
      @YeahNo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It’s terrible to clean up. My sister forgot to turn off the molasses at the dairy. It spilled, and spilled, and spilled.

    • @wyomingadventures
      @wyomingadventures 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Molasses is in many feeds for animals. Horse food especially.

    • @greenaum
      @greenaum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I dunno, maybe ruminants can, or herbivores. Cats and dogs, I wouldn't chance it.

    • @EclecticallyEccentric
      @EclecticallyEccentric 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@greenaum I'd definitely ask a vet, first.

  • @TheBeautifulFearsome
    @TheBeautifulFearsome 3 ปีที่แล้ว +243

    My father died 10 days ago, before he reached the age of 50. I watched your videos growing up a lot and still do when I get on youtube, and had a lot to do in my attitude towards death, as did he. I was alone in the office of the place im crashing, scrolling because I cannot sleep, and I saw a new upload. It raised my spirits immediately. I am glad you are going to talk more about what *you* want to talk about now, and Im grateful youve been on youtube these 70 years. Thank you

    • @CM-wb8by
      @CM-wb8by 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I'm so sorry to hear that...she has helped me in the past regarding to losing loved ones as well

    • @laurielyddy4890
      @laurielyddy4890 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I am very sorry to hear about the passing of your father especially at such a young age

    • @bacchaed2430
      @bacchaed2430 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I am so sorry for your loss.
      She has helped me also.

    • @tayhlorpogacsas7200
      @tayhlorpogacsas7200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My dad died on the jan 13th his birthday is March 15th he would have been 54 I'm sorry about your dad man

    • @G7422
      @G7422 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You aren't alone. My father just passed at 51 on the 17th. It's amazing how these videos have changed my perspective.

  • @jasper3042
    @jasper3042 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The “Stand By Me” corpse was kind of shocking the first time I saw the movie. They really went for it.

  • @violetackles9338
    @violetackles9338 3 ปีที่แล้ว +253

    My partner just walked in when you said ' that's a good corpse' he looked at me then left the room again 🤣

    • @adamjonkie5601
      @adamjonkie5601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Should’ve told him to pull up a chair.

    • @chariesbrightman9983
      @chariesbrightman9983 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤭😆

    • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
      @WouldntULikeToKnow. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That'll make him think twice about not doing something that you've asked him to do 🤣

  • @bethjoneswatches
    @bethjoneswatches 3 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    Elizabeth II was in Kenya when her Dad died, so she'd have had to travel pretty quickly to get back in time for his embalming...

    • @RedGyrl
      @RedGyrl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      That wasn’t Elizabeth the girl was her sister Margret

    • @Liquessen
      @Liquessen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RedGyrl ooooh

    • @bethjoneswatches
      @bethjoneswatches 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@RedGyrl Ah, that makes more sense!

    • @isobellabrett
      @isobellabrett 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@RedGyrl maybe that explains her drink and drug problems

    • @RedGyrl
      @RedGyrl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@isobellabrett maybe I never thought about that

  • @allisonfitzmaurice6948
    @allisonfitzmaurice6948 3 ปีที่แล้ว +328

    I’m surprised Caitlin didn’t look at “Swiss Army Man”

    • @brandy1185
      @brandy1185 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was thinking that

    • @torress9119
      @torress9119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Omg she should do a Part II with that movie 🥺

    • @iamzim3620
      @iamzim3620 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yes!
      I think they went a bit far with the farts, & it didn't have fluid's the way she described.
      I give it 9 tombstone's. 😘

    • @hessrachel17
      @hessrachel17 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I thought I was the only one who watched that movie lmaooo

    • @emwilson2302
      @emwilson2302 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Was hoping/expecting that one too!

  • @roscopants7964
    @roscopants7964 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I've been watching your channel a LOT these last few weeks. I love that you advocate for people's participation in the post-death experience of loved ones. Many years ago, a friend of mine lost his father at a young age (my friend was around 17, I think). He built his father's casket himself by hand and found it extremely therapeutic in a terribly difficult time. That's always stuck with me. Thanks for all you do, Caitlin and crew!

  • @nomorepikachu
    @nomorepikachu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +507

    movie: "the kid was dead."
    caitlin: "GOOD!!"

    • @swaggahninjaRob83
      @swaggahninjaRob83 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Was drinking a coke and spewed that shit everywhere when she said that. Totally lost it, lmao. But hey, at least she gave Kent luttrells performance 9 tombstones lol🤣🤣🤣

    • @blobster91
      @blobster91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Haha came across this comment as soon as she said it and was about to comment the same.

    • @annataymond9529
      @annataymond9529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How ridiculously excited she is seeing a convincing depiction of a dead child.

    • @darthdestructor927
      @darthdestructor927 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@swaggahninjaRob83 as a person who had make up effects artist/ forensic pathologist schooling the ring deaths are pretty accurate too...the looking off into the abyss and the muscle relaxing jaws and open mouth and neck cracked to the side as catilin mentioned plus the pale greenish/greyish tone to the skin...ironically from a fiction film

  • @melissa1985
    @melissa1985 3 ปีที่แล้ว +275

    10/10 Tombstones for Caitlin. Always recommend.

    • @MsFrostitute
      @MsFrostitute 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      10/10 for Caitlin; Would resurrect to prepare my bod before I die

    • @stephjovi
      @stephjovi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      20 out of 10 😍

    • @sonnyd.6777
      @sonnyd.6777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Love that Lucy Caitlin caricature!

  • @chip5892
    @chip5892 3 ปีที่แล้ว +230

    Rating corpses /10! :D
    0 being ‘your corpse sucks it’s nearly as if you’ve never seen one before’
    And 10 being ‘robbing graves is a crime you monster’

  • @jencstephens5452
    @jencstephens5452 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love the No one's Asking segments..... You are right, most every time it's a topic I had no idea existed. Thank you for educating us on so many cool topics.

  • @julietardos5044
    @julietardos5044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +272

    Like a Tibetan sky "burial" where they feed bodies to vultures. Then they take the bones, and grind them up and mix into feed for non-vulture birds.

    • @chromesthesia
      @chromesthesia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Tis metal

    • @ChiakiMotomaru
      @ChiakiMotomaru 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      this sounds perfect, honestly wish that could be done to my body, except maybe keep the skull intact to bury it.

    • @paemonyes8299
      @paemonyes8299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@ChiakiMotomaru that’s actually a zoroastrian burial as well

    • @greenaum
      @greenaum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@ChiakiMotomaru The bones are left intact, vultures aren't that strong. Afterwards workers (in Tibet at least) smash the bones and mix them with flour and butter, and bake a delicious cake! Sorry, I mean they feed the bone / flour / butter mix to crows and other birds. But if you asked one nicely they might keep your skull for you, you'd have to go to Tibet and arrange it with them. I don't know how happy they'd be to sky-bury someone who's not Tibetan or a Buddhist, you might have to bullshit them about it, and make up some mystical reason about your skull, get a relative to supervise when it happens.
      I also don't know (surprisingly ignorant on Tibetan death law, I apologise) if Tibetans allow you to be shipped in ready-dead, or you'd have to live and die there. You can find out. Or else move to some place with a desert, vultures, and poor legal oversight.

    • @red0421
      @red0421 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I want my body cremated but my skull kept, so I can judge people from the grave.

  • @KristaWaple
    @KristaWaple 3 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    My mom's becoming a death doula! She's almost done with her training, and I'm really proud of her! I introduced her to Caitlin's videos in 2017 after I first came across her channel.

    • @sarablueshoes6950
      @sarablueshoes6950 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      What exactly is a death doula?

    • @chicken2844
      @chicken2844 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@sarablueshoes6950 a woman who helps families through the process of a relative dying(basically a midwife but for the dying process)

    • @sarablueshoes6950
      @sarablueshoes6950 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@chicken2844 Oh, Thank you! What an admirable job. You're right to be proud.

    • @HarmonicEnigma
      @HarmonicEnigma 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@chicken2844 Is this similar to a hospice care worker? Just curious.

    • @chicken2844
      @chicken2844 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@HarmonicEnigma its kinda similar but im not an expert at it- i just did some research based from seeing one online- i recommend googling it to further find answers

  • @regisspeaks1497
    @regisspeaks1497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +582

    When I die, I want to be a tree. A good tree seed pod that doesn't need embalming or chemicals and I naturally decompose to feed and nourish the seedling.

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      In the south you can do that.

    • @marsofficial3798
      @marsofficial3798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same these are my plans as well

    • @marsofficial3798
      @marsofficial3798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same these are my plans as well

    • @tanteichan1
      @tanteichan1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Washington State is planning on doing that soon.

    • @lynpharr
      @lynpharr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tanteichan1 already legal here you can

  • @youdoofus
    @youdoofus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    being a 45 year old guy who has lost both his parents in the last 3 years, all of his grandparents by the age of 18 and an aunt when i was like 7 or 8, i appreciate this video. it speaks to the emptiness that has formed my psyche...

  • @tommythecat4961
    @tommythecat4961 3 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    "for fans of historical embalming..." yeah, all three of them!
    Also, Cory Feldman Finding Corpses is my new band name.

    • @koalaeucalyptus
      @koalaeucalyptus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      there NEEDS to be a band called that

  • @MunecasPoupeesDolls
    @MunecasPoupeesDolls 3 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    "I'm making content for ME!!!" Gonna be my new motto

  • @yutaat0.57inkickitmv
    @yutaat0.57inkickitmv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +163

    "great corpse! great corpse!" things you never imagine hearing😂

    • @Katie80-501
      @Katie80-501 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And when they uncovered the body and she smiles and goes "GOOD!"

    • @lorib360
      @lorib360 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is Caitlin not a spokesperson for 'The Great Corpses'?

  • @Narokkurai
    @Narokkurai ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I was really caught off guard by a particular character's corpse in the first episode of the last season of Better Call Saul. He looked like a department store mannequin, or an animatronic that had the power pulled on it. It was uncanny, but in exactly the way a corpse is supposed to be. Great attention to detail in a great show.