2026-04-02 14:22 UTC
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@nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2026-04-02 14:28
> wide spread
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@Kalothar@lemmy.ca 2026-04-02 15:05
I had an ex who worked in this field, she went to mortuary school and worked in mortuaries, before that she worked in organ transplant. She went into the field because of a combination of personal tragedy (a close one passing away at an early age) and seeing how delicately the mortuary handled the event. Anyhow, she and I would talk about it often. One of the things she would note on, wasn’t that it was sexual based things men would do (besides general office sexism coming from men on occasion), but more about the level of respect they showed the deceased. Crude Comments they’d make about their weight, features etc… So I think it just depends and it would be difficult to verify these other claims because the “victims” are deceased and most things related to it seem to be anecdotal. I’m also not going to google necro in anyway (Also yes, she was kinda emo/metal an had some pretty sick tattoos)
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@lath@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 14:35
Shitty pay, crappy hours, being surrounded by the dead all the time... You either gotta love the job or end up loving the dead... Some jobs need to be done, but who's to do them? Can one be completely sane and handle this kind of life without issue for years on end? Most of the people employed tell themselves it's just a job and spend their time dodging the reality of handling the dead all the time, but a few.. well.. they go all in. Normal is a state of mind that has us come to grips with that which is beyond our control.
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@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 14:41
I'm guessing it's hard to come by reliable stats. It's on the same level as priests abusing children, the cover-up would be extensive. But, it's even harder, because the corpse can't testify in court, or make a YouTube video.
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@DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2026-04-02 15:48
You know that Dr. Who meme? The one where the blonde woman asks "Is it a lot?" Just think of it that way.
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@Vitaly_Chernobyl@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-02 21:56
Herodotus mentions it in The Histories written around 430 BCE.