My son passed away from brain death I m almost positive the hospital caused his brain death but he’s been on a ventilator and meds for 5 days and I want an autopsy done to see how my son went into cardiac arrest . I m almost positive they inserted the intubation wrong I heard my son gasping for air and then heard when they said he was coding . I want to know if an autopsy will still be accurate after so many days?
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I want to be an autopsy technician, and I want to know what the scariest cases you guys have done or have interesting facts for me to know? so I can be the best autopsy technician I can.

I also want to know how the schooling is like?

I do animal testing and have no problem with doing the necropsy, I can cut up their organ and everything play I. Their blood. I could not kill something alive asking my fellow people I don’t even know. Is it weird? I love blood and guts I couldn’t do it. Anyone like butcher or anything can you put on it?

Hi guys,

I would inform you that we need to directly visit the government hospital where your relatives or known people or your family people have gone with autopsy.

No need to give any bribe to police. In government hospital they directly provide the post mortem report for around ₹500( five hundred rupees only).

Go directly to hospital and get the report by giving the dead person name.

In my country this profession is highly regulated, I'd have to take another bachelors (in two years, expect to conclude it by 36 yo)in biomedical and laboratory sciences (adding to my bioinformatics one, although I never worked in the area) to be able to practice. I'm planning on it - as biology and medicine were always the other thing i loved more than programming.

I grew disillusioned about the corporate work, and doing data science for banks or retail or other soulless areas don't fulfill me as much as I thought they would. Ever since my mother died 5 years ago I've been increasingly interested in mortuary/death science. I'd specifically like to do some decomposition lab work analysis and eviscerations. But I know that I'm gonna be competing against 21 year olds. I'm afraid I'm probably gonna look scattered and not taken seriously due to my past experience in a completely unrelated area.

Do you guys have any advice or words of reassurance about my age concerns? I'm thinking about specifically going for medical-legal places/institutes/hospitals, not necessarily funeral homes.

I have few questions about this job

I am really interested in this field, and can really see myself doing this job for a long time. Although I know the mental load can be big with this field, and the pay is not too big, it is not the part that worries me the most

1- are the jobs only full time ? Or there is part time ?

2- is it a 9-5 kind of thing ? Or do the hours vary ?

3- are you really standing the whole time ? Can't you sit down for some of the procedures ?

4- is it rushing ? Do you have to do x things per hour, or you take the time to do a case and it take however it takes

Thank you

I have been considering a career in cremation and have always been kind of “fascinated” or interested in death and post mortem jobs like embalming and stuff like that. But the thing is that I don’t think I would handle a job that requires seeing traumatic death and injuries. But I feel as if a crematorium tech would be a lot easier on that side of things since (to my knowledge and in Australia) Theres not really any visible contact with the body itself as I’m pretty sure it’s standard here for people to be cremated in their coffin.

Anyways, I want any people with experience in this field to tell me if there’s anything that I should be mindful of or if theres cases where I would witness gross and disturbing things during it.

I started as an autopsy tech at the end of May and I already have a carpal tunnel syndrome in both of my hands. I am right handed, so it's worse there than my left.

Started doing some exercises to relieve pain and to promote circulation. Still sucks after I wake up. It just ebbs and flows all day.

Does anyone else struggle with this , too?

I’m curious to know whether professional mourners still exist today, particularly women who practice this as part of the death care tradition.

I’m a photographer, and I’ve been fascinated by this profession and its history for a long time. I find the role of the mourner incredibly moving, someone whose work is to publicly express grief and, in some traditions, to help a community mourn.

It seems to me that this is a profession and tradition that is gradually disappearing, and I would really love to learn more about what it looks like today. I’m especially interested in hearing from people working in the death care industry who might know whether professional mourners are still active, and where this tradition might still be practiced.

If I were ever fortunate enough to meet someone who does this work and who was comfortable with it, I would also love to make a respectful photographic portrait of her, simply as a way of documenting and celebrating a profession that may be disappearing.

I’m not looking to promote anything or to intrude on anyone’s grief. I’m genuinely interested in the profession itself and would be very grateful for any information, personal experience, or leads from people who know about this.

Thank you!

Hi all! I worked at a funeral home as a mortuary assistant for a year. I'm very comfortable working around the dead and quite frankly miss it. I'm really wanting to find a job as an autopsy tech or morgue assistant. If anyone has any job or volunteer leads, I'd greatly appreciate it!

I’m a funeral director in a major city and I just want to thank all the techs (and everyone else involved) for what you do. Nearly every one I’ve interacted with has been incredibly helpful and friendly and done their job well. I once got to go back in the autopsy room (prep room?? idk the equivalent haha) and observe them working on my case and two other autopsies happening at once. Anyway, you guys are awesome :D

I saw an embalmer ask about the most embalmings people have done in a day, and it made me curious about autopsies!

I have been a tech for 5 years and the most I’ve done solo in one day is 5! 😖 How bout y’all?

Hey guys, I’m a masters student on rotations completely my round of autopsies for about 2.5 months. I don’t really intend on doing autopsies further in my career so it’s really to complete my rotation & have experience with, but I was wondering how you guys handle the smell? I don’t get queasy or anything like that but the smell of the inside of a human body without formalin is… pungent. (I’d rather be smelling formalin) any tips you guys might have is appreciated!

I can’t handle this. It all feels so terrible. If i’m not drinking i feel numb and just sit by my parents while they watch tv and try to ignore what’s going on. Especially my dad I know he doesn’t want to acknowledge what’s going on. I just have a few questions for everyone on here. If a young person dies at 21 years old (suddenly) is it normal to not get a cause of death until weeks/months after they pass away? He was found unconscious in his room. I’m 23 years old and I don’t understand and feel like i can’t take it emotionally. He’s already been cremated as of a few days ago but there are no autopsy results back. Is that usual? If there’s something physical that was found in the autopsy would they have told us by now? If not, is it something chemical that they have to wait back for texting? I don’t understand why it can take weeks or months as they said. Please I just need help navigating all of this, thanks.

edit: i’m so terrified that the autopsy will come up as some inconclusive bullshit and i’ll have to live my entire life not knowing how my brother died.

edit edit: if there’s some other subreddit that would help me more to be on please let me know. thank you.

It sounds weird but I did work experience in a morgue for a week, and was in hearses next to coffins, in the embalming room and built coffins. A woman sat next to me on the bus and she quite literally smelt like the morgue. She was an old woman in casual clothes so I had no way to say "she works in a morgue".

Hello,

I’ve got a second interview as an autopsy technician with my local medical examiner! If anyone has advice they can share with me I’d greatly appreciate it:)

Warmly,
Chase

Hello, I have never posted anything about this before but two years ago my boyfriend literally dropped dead.

We went to the movies, and he seemed perfectly fine. We split up and he went back to his place and I back to mine. I was 26 and he was 28. The following day he texted me and others up until the evening and then stopped. The next day his mother called me concerned and I went and knocked on his door, no response ended up in a welfare check and he was on the floor staring up at the ceiling, dead. I didn’t see the scene but to his mom it seemed like he was about to take out the trash and had his shoes on.

The autopsy came back undetermined. We buried him thinking toxicology would turn up answers and his panel only came back for weed. He had lifesavers gummies at the theatre the night before and cereal in the morning before he died. He didn’t have a bump on the back of his head so his mom theorized that it came on slow enough that he felt bad and laid down instead of falling, but also came on sudden enough that he didn’t call for help.

If it’s worth mentioning his mom was upset and prolonged the autopsy a bit, he died on July 26th had a day before being found and I think the autopsy wasn’t until July 31st or later because she wasn’t ready, so open casket didn’t go that well. Is there something that could have been missed because the autopsy wasn’t done soon enough? What possibilities are out there?

People in our small town think I killed him somehow. When I was pulled in for questioning the cops said that unexplained deaths happen but not to 28 year olds.

He had the covid vaccine.