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Seeing your loved ones after they die can be extremely difficult, but it can provide crucial closure for people in mourning.
Funeral directors go through great lengths to alleviate the trauma of the experience by developing special techniques to make the dead look as close to they did when they were alive as possible
A Reddit user discovered the creative way some morticians ensure that the eyes remain shut after death, and it turned into a fascinating conversation about the practice of embalming.
Eyes naturally remain partially open after death due to muscle relaxation. For many years, cotton was placed under the eyelids to help keep them shut and maintain the proper shape for open casket services. Now spiky "contacts" called eye caps hold the eyelids in place Read more...
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