Have you ever been to a funeral, and noticed that the body is looking young as if nothing had happened? According to Jessica Milford’s essay, it may be because the funerals are being over done by, dressing up in nice clothes and make up. In Jessica Milford’s essay she gives her opinion on what she thinks of it in America. With her opinion we will compare how the traditions relate and differ from funeral rituals in India. According to Jessica Mitford’s “Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain” she questions if embalming was legal. Embalming main purpose is “to make the corpse presentable for viewing in a suitably costly container.” The two main keywords that were used in there were presentable and suitably. When it came to presentable the bodies
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When she explains she gives it a negative sensation with the details of the tools and equipment that are used. She then explains that the person who prepares is just an ordinary person with very little experience doing it. That all they have is an 9-12-month high school course to get certified to embalm. She continues with her essay explaining the procedure of the embalming process. The first thing they do is bring the body in as soon as possible before cellular damage happens. The blood is drained out of the veins and then is replaced with the embalming fluid. The author explains that the type of fluid that is injected can vary with the preference that you choose. Each type of fluid has a different affect to the skin color and the texture. Secondly, the mouth is sewn and the body is then filled with six gallons of dye and perfume type solution. With this process, it keeps the body fluid circulating, gives the sewn mouth a smiling face. Thirdly, a long tube is jabbed in the stomach of the corpse in which more chemicals are placed into the chest cavity. She makes the reader have a negative sensation again when she explains how fluids are removed and chemicals are replaced in them, and that they are creamed with special paste to protect from burns and chemical …show more content…
The body is washed and then well decorated for the placing in the casket. With many different requirements on how the casket is supposed to be, Mitford expresses that the requirements could be a little overwhelming. Such as, the body is supposed to be placed as high as it can be, but at same time at a level where the nose is not impacted with the closing of the lid. Finally, she ends her essay explaining that the religious service makes it an open casket viewing by themselves without asking. According to her, 90 percent of American funerals are open casket, which surprises a lot of
When she explains she gives it a negative sensation with the details of the tools and equipment that are used. She then explains that the person who prepares is just an ordinary person with very little experience doing it. That all they have is an 9-12-month high school course to get certified to embalm. She continues with her essay explaining the procedure of the embalming process. The first thing they do is bring the body in as soon as possible before cellular damage happens. The blood is drained out of the veins and then is replaced with the embalming fluid. The author explains that the type of fluid that is injected can vary with the preference that you choose. Each type of fluid has a different affect to the skin color and the texture. Secondly, the mouth is sewn and the body is then filled with six gallons of dye and perfume type solution. With this process, it keeps the body fluid circulating, gives the sewn mouth a smiling face. Thirdly, a long tube is jabbed in the stomach of the corpse in which more chemicals are placed into the chest cavity. She makes the reader have a negative sensation again when she explains how fluids are removed and chemicals are replaced in them, and that they are creamed with special paste to protect from burns and chemical …show more content…
The body is washed and then well decorated for the placing in the casket. With many different requirements on how the casket is supposed to be, Mitford expresses that the requirements could be a little overwhelming. Such as, the body is supposed to be placed as high as it can be, but at same time at a level where the nose is not impacted with the closing of the lid. Finally, she ends her essay explaining that the religious service makes it an open casket viewing by themselves without asking. According to her, 90 percent of American funerals are open casket, which surprises a lot of