BEHIND THE MORTUARY DOOR An inside guide to post-mortem procedures with Carla Valentine At Brompton Cemetery Chapel on Sunday 21st October 2018 from 5:00 pm Sooner or later we are all going to end up on a mortuary slab. Carla Valentine prepares us for this final indignity of life with her illustrated talk focusing on the various post-mortem procedures, drawn from the ten years she spent working in morgues as an anatomical pathology technologist. She takes you through a typical day in the death of the average cadaver, starting from its arrival in the mortuary in a body bag and including dissection, removal of organs for donation, with a full account of the “multisensory experience” of each of the five stages of decomposition and how after the autopsy the body is reconstructed, groomed and spruced up to be reunited with its loved ones at its funeral.
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