Were Elvis' Embalming Instrument Auctioned Off? Just Give Me 2 Minutes
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Did you know that the instruments used during Elvis' autopsy and embalming were found and went to auction...here is the story!
@KaritheMortician
kari@Karithemortician.com
We have Elvis's music, or have access to it. That is enough for me!
I would never have faith in a funeral home that would do that. That is disrespectful.
Certifying authenticity would be a problem. I believe collecting anything used on any decedent & placing it on auction is bizarre & immoral.
I would not buy tools used in anybody’s embalming. If I had that kind of disposable income, I’d donate it to a child centered charity!
I would open a retirement village for old dogs…💖
@@evakiss2562 I love that idea❣️
How does one prove the instruments were used on Elvis Presley?
@@sandramillss4855 great point!
Robert Holton, Funeral Director at Memphis Funeral Home in 1977, wrote a book some years back. "The King Is Dead, the Story of the Funeral of Rock & Roll Legend Elvis Presley." There was a promotional announcement on the front cover, stating "This Book Soon to be a Major Television Event!" Never did see that show, though.
Elvis' body presented a challenge to the embalmers, as he apparently lay on the floor for several hours with blood pooled in his face. There was a public viewing at Graceland, on a terribly hot and humid day. Elvis was laid out in the foyer of his home. Mr. Holton and his staff needed to periodically touch up the body, because of the heat.
Two of his close friends dyed his hair black, as they had many times before.
When Elvis was an inpatient at Memphis' Baptist Hospital, staffers were caught attempting to sell his blood and urine. When he stayed in hotels on the road, his bed linens were cut into strips and sold. So, it's no surprise that these embalming items came to light.
@@jaygordon1033 I saw an interview awhile back with a man who said he had taken care of Mr. Presley's hairstyles for years, and that he did final hair care for him.
I don’t care who it was used on. There’s a line in collecting items from your favorite Star. This is a big step over it.
Grisly sales would also include ANYTHING involved in the embalming and/or makeup use on JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Sharon Tate, or George Reeves.
Even as recent as Kurt Cobain, Tupac, River Phoenix, Chester Bennington, Michael Hutchens, and Robin Williams would be far too grisly and so very disrespectful.
It's almost akin to selling their full autopsy reports, complete with photos. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
When I took the special Mortuary makeup course as part of my Cosmetology courses (extra credit and extra certification), it didn't have anything to do with embalming. It was strictly makeup and repair work.
My class WAS shown photos of JFK, Marilyn, Jayne Mansfield, and a few other celebrities (I THINK Judy Garland was in the mix), along with every day folks to show us all kinds of wounds, postmortem swelling from blunt force trauma, bruising and lividity,to give us all an idea of what we students could/would come across in our workplaces.
I never approved of my instructor using the celebrity autopsy photos.
I felt he did it as pure sensationalism and shock value. 🤬🤬🤬
There's nothing worse than to come to class expecting to start learning how to putty bullet holes and stitch/fill gashes, and then be treated to the utter carnage that was Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski's house. Crime scene photos, victim photos, autopsy photos THEN the damn reports and funeral homes' info.
Man, I hated that guy.
I never broke though. I graduated the top of his class out of rage and spite.
Too bad my mom's no longer alive to tell you about the raging (Scottish term for losing my shizz,😂😂.) and ranting that I did once I got home after having one of his classes. 🙄🤦♀️ Ugh.
Thanks for listening. I needed that. Not a lot of people would understand.
Much Love to you and your family!😘💖🫂🫂🐾🐾
No way, I absolutely would not!🤮
No: it’s disrespectful
There is a guy here on RUclips that tracked down and purchased the ambulance that took Elvis from Graceland.
I think personally auctioning these items is just plain gnarly and kinda overwhelming morbid.... I kinda enjoy the macabre but this a little bit over the freekin 🎩 creepy jeez Louise give me a break
Kari funeral directors in England Hull got raided by feds. any comment on that story?
There is not enough information yet
I can understand the hype but to me it would be morbid to handle those tools knowing what they have been used for. No thank you! Even though they were sterilized, ugh, just to think about body fluids, and embalming fluids, and other yucky stuff, no thank you! I wouldn't want them if they were free! Gross! 😮
Why in the world would the family want them ?? Are embalming instruments sterilized and used again ? I don't see why not.
Question: how long does it take to embalming the king body, any pictures of. I heard so many things about.
Nope. Super gross and makes me question why people would keep them. I would never disrepect someone that way. Care for them and don't plan to profit off of it later.
No too morbid I think some people are just rediculous
thank you
Would these things hot belong to the funeral home that the embalmer worked for? Technically these are stolen from the owners of that funeral home?
Hopefully the family said destroy! Guess if they displayed them in a curio cabinet, it would make a great conversation starter!!🤔😂
Can't the man just rest in peace with his family, please? 🙏
:)
I’m a funeral director
What is used in the prep room either is sterilized disinfected and stays in the prep room for the next use , or thrown away in a biohazard box and bins to be collected by biohazard collector company for proper disposing .
Another words what goes in the prep room and used doesn’t come out of the prep room . Unless it’s a prepped disinfected body for view or biohazard collected material .
No. I don't recall what year it was the white Cadillac hearse that was used was located in a salvage yard. Sometime after the Elvis funeral the hearse caught on fire and burned. The salvage yard photos showed a rusted haul of a hearse. I don't recall if it was for sale or not.
That’s just way too morbid for me. I would rather have an article of clothing or a piece of sheet music.
I could.
Watch you 4 hours. SUCH an incredible woman. So intelligent sweet and beautiful!!!!
wow thanks
Is there nothing sacred. I'm surprised they didn't try to sell the fluid used to clean out the body. 😞
It is a weirdest thing I heard…😬😬😬you guys guess my answer: no!
Oh, no, gross!
Ewwww no that's nasty😅
Sorry but I liked Johnny Cash better!!😢😮😅😅
Just why? Why??? What are you going to do with it? Use it as a promotion?
No I wouldn't buy used in almighty equipment or anything used in a funeral home! I think that is not a respectful thing to do! Love to you KARI ❤❤❤from AKRON, OHIO 😊😊😊
All that stuff is worthless for the simple fact . That Elvis is alive and well he is working in a Burger King in Michigan. That was a wax dummy in the casket..
I dunno know,anywho where would anyone display these instruments like this especially being just a fan 💚
No absolutely not that’s so wrong let the family have peace
No. I would not. Why? To me this is just as weird as pieces of a saint's bones on display at a church. For that much money I'd go on several trips. But these are my values.
Although I have always wanted to own a Hearse (I could put a wild stereo system in one) and it would make for some fun on Halloween, and buying a casket for sleeping in at home (my son spooks at both), I would not have any interest in new or used embalming tools regardless of if they had been used on a celebrity. Just never had that kind of interest in those things. I have read on the internet that someone kept a few things of Marilyn Monroes embalming.
NO something like that should never have been offered . And considering that it was offered maybe there should be a federal law against it with stiff penalties including prison time
NO! That is idol worship. A human is a human is a human.......
Elvis fan here. Nope I would not buy it.
Not what I would want to remember Elvis for.
It would be interesting to see IN A MUSEUM... But no, while I would have no interest in 'owning' any of these items, there clearly are people who would... The original casket Oswald was buried in, along with the O'Neil's hearse used to transport JFK's casket to Love Field were also auctioned off, & I'd have to check, but I think the ambulance used to transport him to Bethesda once back to DC, was also auctioned off recently 🤔🤷♀🤦♀ Ok, not 'exactly' related, but selling these items, well, it is just as nasty & the exact reason why the original casket that JFK was brought back to Washington in was 'buried at sea' the next year.
O'Neil wanted it back to 'put it on display', which is exactly what the family didn't want. So they loaded it with sandbags, put it in a crate, shot it full of holes so it'd sink, & dropped it off an Air Force plane into the Atlantic ocean to spare the family any more grief.
Yes, BOTH vehicles that transported JFK's casket were actioned off. The hearse in Dallas & the Ambulance in DC. Also, Oswald's original casket was wrongly sold by the funeral home.
-PHOENIX (Reuters) - A car collector who wanted a "piece of history" paid $120,000 at an auction in Arizona for a 1963 ambulance that purportedly carried the body of President John F. Kennedy after he was assassinated, auction officials said.Jan 24, 2011
-Dec 16, 2011 - The 1964 Cadillac Hearse that carried the body of President John F. Kennedy will be auctioned off on January 21, 2012 at the 41st Annual ..
-A judge says the original casket in which Lee Harvey Oswald was buried belongs to Oswald's brother, not the funeral home that auctioned it off for more than $87,000. Oswald's brother, Robert, had sued Baumgardner Funeral Home after it sold the pine coffin for $87,468 in 2010.Jan 30, 2015
I live in southeast Michigan. At the Henry Ford museum, they not only have the limousine, that President Kennedy was shot in on display, but the theater chair, that President Lincoln sat in when he was shot.
@@barbatloosenutproductions2027 Isn't that an awesome museum... We went a few years ago & loved it :) The Lincoln chair, apparently the stains are from water from how/where it was stored.
Well, that's just gross!
No way for what reason.
Blessings and ❤ for your utubes
You don't know what you don't know ???
😮 whoa 😳
That is simply too tacky.
I would have to pass.
Um nope.
Yes, yes I would.
Interesting
They would go under glass in a museum
No!
Just why?
Crippy
The one that would make an interesting video, it never sold bur lee Harvey Oswald's original coffin was put up for auction. The one he was buried in before exhumation in early 80s
I wouldn't buy something like this. But people collect all sorts of things, some weird and some not. I do think someone would buy the instruments used on Elvis if offered for auction...
I would be excited and sad at the same time thanks for the Video kari❤
Nope..
Can you settle a YT disagreement? 😊 Does hair and fingernails still grow after a person has passed away? Thank you, great channel 😉👏🏼
No, the skin shrinks giving the appearance of growth.
@@debbiel7736 thank you 👏🏼👍🏻
Does not grow … when your dead everything is ceased .
Therefore nothing can grown . You are “
shut down “ it’s a myth
Your skin recedes after a while so it may “ look” like a longer nail . But it is not .
In olden days, people didn't know that. They actually believed the illusion of long nails and hair, was because the deceased was a vampire! Not quite dead, not quite alive. Rising out of the grave, to attack the living, feeding on their blood! 🧛♂️🧛♀️
When old folks would have the viewing at home, they said it looked like a clean shaved Man's beard had grown enough to not look freshly shaved anymore but that was probably from what the earlier commenter said. Skin shrinking.
Cool.. I would have loved to have them.