When my grandmother fell and bruised her entire face, we decided on a closed casket. We gave the funeral director the picture we were going to put on top. Omg he made her look just like the picture! When the family went an hour early to view her, we decided to keep her casket open! What an artist he was!!! It really made us all feel so much better!!!
My mother died of cancer, so we opted for a closed casket. The funeral director who cared for her did an amazing job- She litteraly looked like her healthy self, and like she was just sleeping. Had it only been close family gathering to say goodbye we may have left the casket open.
What’s so amazing about you is your enthusiasm and true interest in your profession! I think that’s what kept me watching for so long. I just realized I would be able to promote cremations but that’s were it ends. Rest best left unsaid! God Bless You!
I remember taking RA labs in the '70's & I sucked at it. I remember practicing with clay, wax, & cotton with collodion which had an ether base. Getting contours were a challenge, especially against photos. It takes time & practice in order to get any good at this art....& it is art. Some embalmers who work in low volume areas are hardly ever exposed to cases with extreme challenges & easily forget what they've learned. This class brought back old memories.
Are they generic heads where the students can choose whether they're working on a male or female skull/face? Because male skulls have that ridge brow. Also, do they get anthropologically different races of heads?
@@KaritheMortician that's still pretty cool. The students themselves can decide on the sex and possibly race, since when they get to the mortuary makeup section, they're going to have to learn how to tend to different colors of people. Thank you for your answer!😘💖👍
My cousin went to mortuary school and she said she could never get the ears right. She passed away before finishing school, but, yeah, ears were her nightmare.
THIS IS INCREDIBLY FUN ! THANK YOU FOR TAKING TIME TO FILM THIS KARI THANK YOU KARI ! THIS IS VERY INTERESTING LOVE IT KARI QUESTION TO DO THE SAME CLASS IN MICHIGAN
I think it is amazing that one can try to restore what was and I wonder for what end, I think just for the reason to say goodbye or for peace of mind for a guilty person...it is all seems gruesome.
I assume that when this is actually being done on a real deceased person that has had a traumatic damage done to the face/head..they have a picture of the person to go by to get it as perfect as possible.
Ps That nice, clean cut, smartly attired, young man who's a member of the faculty of the Pittsburgh School of Mortuary Science, reminds me of *"Robert Hoover",* President of my Pledge Class at the "Delta Fraternity House" at Faber College. I believe if you check, he's really from Pittsburgh too in William Penn's nape of the woods. Small World... hayna?? You have to get used to the local Pittsburgh dialectic too. For instance, "Yinz" is a second-person plural pronoun used mainly in Western Pennsylvania English, most prominently in Pittsburgh, but it is also found throughout the cultural region known as Appalachia, located within the geographical region of the Appalachians. *(Ex. " I'll follow yinz in the hearse to St. Adlelbert's Cemetery. Make sure Yinz have your headlights on and the amber strobe light on the roof on. Last time, yinz forgot to turn them on and we almost got sideswiped by a semi at the intersection before the tunnel. )*
Kari, sorry I missed your live stream. This is so interesting. You have. Really opened my eyes for me. Seeing this video raises a question for me. Does crime scene investigators have go through these classes? I think they should. Being a CSI has been my dream job.
It's rather nice to see that face diapers are optional in that Mortuary School. A real breath of fresh air. Anyhoo, I predict this type of facial reconstruction will soon be a thing of the past with the Crisp-R Cas-9 gene editing tool and the 3-D Printing Technology. The 2 technologies will merge and make this type of artwork a thing of the past with perfect restorations of the deceased head, face, neck, lips, ears, hair, eye brows, even the buttocks and genitalia etc. All will be derived from the *exact genetic code instructions and rendered with a Lifelike 3-D printer* No more Leonardo DaVinci style guesswork or rough estimations. *But you'll need a course to learn how to operate the new machine(s) at the CareCenter... and a Federal or State Certification.*
Why would a state not require licensing for an embalmer. To me with handling those chemicals etc it would require it. And at least taking the test would find out if " they knew their stuff".
Kari, how often have you used this skill in your career. Obviously it’s an important skill to know but aren’t there people who do just this for a living?
For crushed skulls with “mashed” and splattered brain materials, do you put back the brain pieces back into the skull or do you just remove it and discard it? Thanks!
*WAY TOOOO MANY STUDENTS. TOO LEARN WHAT TO DO ACCCURATELY. (1) instructor, young kid for 40-50 students. WE HEARD THE GENTLEMAN SAY "HE IS LOST ALREADY" NO INSTRUCTOR WALKING AROUND OR SEEN DOING ONE ON ONE HELP. LOOKS LIKE A WASTE FOR A STUDENT. SCHOOL MAKING MONEY. SHOULD BE LIMITED 10 STUDENTS PER CLASS*
Only if they found the correct body apparently. This happens a lot in States where Grizzly Bears are plentiful or Shark Attacks are frequent. It can be difficult when groups of Campers go missing or several Swimmers or Abalone Divers never show up back at the boat. Remember, you are more afraid of Bears and Sharks than they are of you. Also when you go into the woods or in the ocean unequipped for trouble...you become part of the food chain...not an apex preditor.
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When my grandmother fell and bruised her entire face, we decided on a closed casket. We gave the funeral director the picture we were going to put on top. Omg he made her look just like the picture! When the family went an hour early to view her, we decided to keep her casket open! What an artist he was!!! It really made us all feel so much better!!!
Awesome!!
My mother died of cancer, so we opted for a closed casket. The funeral director who cared for her did an amazing job- She litteraly looked like her healthy self, and like she was just sleeping. Had it only been close family gathering to say goodbye we may have left the casket open.
Pittsburgh!!! That’s we’re I’m from! Lives here my whole life!
Awesome
Happy Birthday to your beautiful mama.
You two are beautiful ladies
Thank you!
@@KaritheMortician awe Shucks ma'am it ain't nothing but the truth 😁
Very excited I like it that much of a science on class mortuary spontaneous
Thanks
What’s so amazing about you is your enthusiasm and true interest in your profession! I think that’s what kept me watching for so long. I just realized I would be able to promote cremations but that’s were it ends. Rest best left unsaid!
God Bless You!
Thank you!
I remember taking RA labs in the '70's & I sucked at it. I remember practicing with clay, wax, & cotton with collodion which had an ether base. Getting contours were a challenge, especially against photos. It takes time & practice in order to get any good at this art....& it is art. Some embalmers who work in low volume areas are hardly ever exposed to cases with extreme challenges & easily forget what they've learned. This class brought back old memories.
Awesome!
This sounds incredibly fun! Thank you for taking time to film this Kari.
You are welcome
I do autopsies as my job. My sister does the restoration process. We love what we do.
Very cool
Thank you Kari! This is very interesting. Love it!
You are so welcome!
Cool, I live in Pittsburgh. Always wanted to attend PIMS but life happened.😂🤷🏾♂️ Love your videos!
Awesome! Thank you!
Very interesting. Thanks Kari. 💜
Thanks!
Thanks for making this available this available! Like Ryan I would buy you dinnner tonight but you would have to get to the airport very soon!
You are welcome!
Thank you Kari, this is fascinating!
You are so welcome!
Thanks for presenting this to us Kari. I wish I was younger and not 58 cause I would attend. I find this interesting.
Your age doesn't matter. Follow your dreams! 😃💗
Thank you!
Yes!!
That's so cool Kari.
Thank you
Are they generic heads where the students can choose whether they're working on a male or female skull/face? Because male skulls have that ridge brow.
Also, do they get anthropologically different races of heads?
They are not gender specific just a neutral skull
@@KaritheMortician that's still pretty cool. The students themselves can decide on the sex and possibly race, since when they get to the mortuary makeup section, they're going to have to learn how to tend to different colors of people.
Thank you for your answer!😘💖👍
That looks like a very cool class.
It is!
So interesting! Do they use any sort of prosthetics to replace ears, nose, or other parts?
Yes you can but many use wax
Great video Kari.
Thank you!!
Love your new hair do, have a fun trip!!!!!!!!
Thank you! Will do!
Ty Kari this is really interesting
There seems to be a lot more ladies in the profession than there were 50 years ago.
Definitely!!
My cousin went to mortuary school and she said she could never get the ears right. She passed away before finishing school, but, yeah, ears were her nightmare.
ears are hard!
Oh, it's so cool you were in my city on my birthday!
Happy birthday!
You're very pretty Kari... I love what you do!!
Thank you so much
Just want to respectively say that I have a crush on you!!!I have family that are mortician's also..I love the business...
Enjoying. Your in my home town. What time will you be live Saturday and Sunday? Not real tech savvy, how do you ask questions when you're live?
I don’t have set times
How interesting. I'd love to take that class.
:)
@Kari the Mortician this looks like fun. Awesome I mean sad for true patients with this trauma. But on the art side looks fun.
Its a great class
THIS IS INCREDIBLY FUN ! THANK YOU FOR TAKING TIME TO FILM THIS KARI THANK YOU KARI ! THIS IS VERY INTERESTING LOVE IT KARI QUESTION TO DO THE SAME CLASS IN MICHIGAN
THey do not do the class like this in Michigan
This is fascinating. I would be the one gluing my fingers together. I do that trying to make paper chains!
lol
I think it is amazing that one can try to restore what was and I wonder for what end, I think just for the reason to say goodbye or for peace of mind for a guilty person...it is all seems gruesome.
It gives a goodbye moment
Witch step do you prefer during the embalming process.
I assume that when this is actually being done on a real deceased person that has had a traumatic damage done to the face/head..they have a picture of the person to go by to get it as perfect as possible.
Yes they would
I'm just a professional screen printer that watches your videos and
thinks he should win a book. Have a great day.
Thank you!!
Did you take these classes aswell, Karie?
In a funeral home when you reconstruct a face would you have pictures of the person to guide you?
Yes you would hope the family would provide one
Do they get a chance to work on smaller heads incase they get a baby or small child ???
If they can do big head then they will be able do do any size head....I assume ))
Yes they do
After the programme, are funeral directors responsible for teaching interns or should they know everything by the time you are finished school?
No you do an apprenticeship
Is the two year better for going into this line of work
It depends on your life situation
Are the all point park univ students, I went there for classes
?
What if the person has no hair or part of the face is missing ? Kari, you're awesome !
You replace and recreate
How far along do they get when it's close to grauting
:)
Hello Kari. Are these students just studying restorative arts, or are they also studying embalming, and casketing as well?
Yes all of it
Ps That nice, clean cut, smartly attired, young man who's a member of the faculty of the Pittsburgh School of Mortuary Science, reminds me of *"Robert Hoover",* President of my Pledge Class at the "Delta Fraternity House" at Faber College. I believe if you check, he's really from Pittsburgh too in William Penn's nape of the woods. Small World... hayna??
You have to get used to the local Pittsburgh dialectic too.
For instance, "Yinz" is a second-person plural pronoun used mainly in Western Pennsylvania English, most prominently in Pittsburgh, but it is also found throughout the cultural region known as Appalachia, located within the geographical region of the Appalachians.
*(Ex. " I'll follow yinz in the hearse to St. Adlelbert's Cemetery. Make sure Yinz have your headlights on and the amber strobe light on the roof on. Last time, yinz forgot to turn them on and we almost got sideswiped by a semi at the intersection before the tunnel. )*
Thank you for all of this
@@KaritheMortician
I thought it would brighten your day. God Bless you!
My uncle was a mortician. He excelled at doing makeup. I find this class very interesting, but I could never ever be a mortician.
I love mortuary science but I'm way too emotional and I may not have the stomach for it, so I binge RUclips videos instead!
@@VeneficaDelirium Same!
Thank you
Kari at the end of their class do they start on real people?
No they will work on the deceased when they have opportunity in the lab
Kari, sorry I missed your live stream. This is so interesting. You have. Really opened my eyes for me. Seeing this video raises a question for me. Does crime scene investigators have go through these classes? I think they should. Being a CSI has been my dream job.
No they don’t
@Kari the Mortician is this what you kinda can do if a person is dismembered and you can't tell exactly who they are. Would you use this technique?
Not this specific technique
Interresting
thanks
It's rather nice to see that face diapers are optional in that Mortuary School. A real breath of fresh air.
Anyhoo, I predict this type of facial reconstruction will soon be a thing of the past with the Crisp-R Cas-9 gene editing tool and the 3-D Printing Technology.
The 2 technologies will merge and make this type of artwork a thing of the past with perfect restorations of the deceased head, face, neck, lips, ears, hair, eye brows, even the buttocks and genitalia etc. All will be derived from the *exact genetic code instructions and rendered with a Lifelike 3-D printer* No more Leonardo DaVinci style guesswork or rough estimations. *But you'll need a course to learn how to operate the new machine(s) at the CareCenter... and a Federal or State Certification.*
Yes they are :)
@@KaritheMortician
Sorry to hear that. It looks like the Students are not wearing any unless they're the new and improved N95 transparent ones.
Looks like this class is fun how does someone who once to do this work who don't know how do art and could do a face how can they do their person
I am not a great artist
The class
:)
That’s interesting.
Thank you!
Why would a state not require licensing for an embalmer. To me with handling those chemicals etc it would require it. And at least taking the test would find out if " they knew their stuff".
You would think it would be required but Colorado 🤦🏻♀️
@@KaritheMortician yeah Colorado does alot of strange stuff. Must be those high
altitudes!🤣😂
You might already know, but acetone should help to clean off the super glue.
I tried it and it got off some...all gone today!
Kari, how often have you used this skill in your career. Obviously it’s an important skill to know but aren’t there people who do just this for a living?
Hit or miss...will depend on how busy your funeral home is
Sucks I work all weekend or I'd take you to the Lemoyne Crematory
I wish I had some
Extra time to do it. Just said I will plan a quick trip in may to go there!
Allegheny Cemetery in Lawrenceville is where it's at.
Do you have to have this class to become an embalmer
Yes it is one of them
Can a head be reattached for viewing
Yes
Hi kari hope your ok charlie
Doing good thank you!
For crushed skulls with “mashed” and splattered brain materials, do you put back the brain pieces back into the skull or do you just remove it and discard it? Thanks!
No the brain is gathered and put with the viscera after autopsy
As re they almost done or alot more to go
Depends on if they are on the one year or two year track
Do they teach cremation
I have the biggest crush on you.
Thank you :)
Why am I feeling Easter Island in that room?
??
@@KaritheMortician the head statues....
Kari is smoking hot.
Where are men? Most of the students are female. It’s like that in so many occupations now. Is there a man shortage?
Yes, most students are female
I’ll buy you dinner tonight
HA!!
I appreciate the offer!
@@KaritheMortician you still here in Pittsburgh
@@KaritheMortician I hope you are having a good time in Pittsburgh! I live a hour north
*MAKING A FACE WITHOUT A PICTURE, NOT LEARNING*
Yes they are learning the Canon of beauty and facial dimensions. SO much good content with this project
*WAY TOOOO MANY STUDENTS. TOO LEARN WHAT TO DO ACCCURATELY. (1) instructor, young kid for 40-50 students. WE HEARD THE GENTLEMAN SAY "HE IS LOST ALREADY" NO INSTRUCTOR WALKING AROUND OR SEEN DOING ONE ON ONE HELP. LOOKS LIKE A WASTE FOR A STUDENT. SCHOOL MAKING MONEY. SHOULD BE LIMITED 10 STUDENTS PER CLASS*
There are six instructors. This is the culmination of a full course that was done. Maybe only comment when you know what is actually happening
Can a person head be reattached for viewing
Only if they found the correct body apparently. This happens a lot in States where Grizzly Bears are plentiful or Shark Attacks are frequent. It can be difficult when groups of Campers go missing or several Swimmers or Abalone Divers never show up back at the boat. Remember, you are more afraid of Bears and Sharks than they are of you. Also when you go into the woods or in the ocean unequipped for trouble...you become part of the food chain...not an apex preditor.
Of course! check out my video on can they be embalmed decapitation
@@KaritheMortician
Thanks... I remember that video.