#deathcare — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #deathcare, aggregated by home.social.
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Cremation's Rise Reveals Complex Preferences in End-of-Life Decisions
📰 Original title: Boom in cremation hides surprising truths about what Americans really want when they die
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/cremations-rise-reveals-complex-preferences-in-end-of-life-decisions/?redirpost=7f097c2f-d1be-41cb-9721-63ca84298aea
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"And we have a lot of people that will also say, 'I want to be a tree,' or, 'I want to plant this tree at my mom’s grave.' We help them get to the place of understanding what it might be to be the whole forest."
John Christian Phifer for Atmos: https://atmos.earth/science-and-nature/giving-our-bodies-back-to-the-earth-the-rise-of-conservation-burial/
#Longreads #Death #Burial #Nature #Restoration #Earth #DeathCare #GreenBurial #NaturalBurial
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Jim Parton works in the #DeathCare industry and shares his guide for the living, in our latest Staff Pick:
https://medium.com/the-wind-phone/you-are-dead-what-happens-next-729f4e661186
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Some, scared off by the complexity of picking a #HealthInsurance policy & by the #PriceTag, tumble over the edge & go without #insurance, in a #health system where the rate for an ER visit can be thousands, if not tens of thousands, of dollars.
Today, an estimated 15% of 26-year-olds go #uninsured, which, acc/to an analysis by the health research group KFF, is the highest rate among Americans of any age.
#US #healthcare #eugenics #DeathCare #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #ACA #Obamacare
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Plans sold in the online #insurance marketplaces have no stringent quality standards. #Costs keep rising, & #eligibility requirements & subsidies are a moving target.
The erosion of the #law has now created an “insurance cliff” for Americans who are turning 26 & don’t have a #job that provides #medical coverage.
#US #healthcare #eugenics #DeathCare #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #ACA #Obamacare #HealthInsurance
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Researching specific treatments & how to perform at-home procedures
Organ/body donation; donating unused medicine
Palliative care, hospice, insurance/Medicare, & hospice facility eligibility
Delirium & persuasion
Music for comfort
Books & blogs that helped me prepare for this
#eldercare #caregiving #caregiver #caregivers #EndOfLife #healthcare #medicine #PalliativeCare #hospitals #PatientAdvocacy #EstatePlanning #DeathCare #hospice
This was, at times, hard to write. Hope it helps.
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#WordyWednesday: Ptomaine 💨🤢🤮
Pronounced: toe-MAIN.
The unholy gang of nitrogenous stink compounds responsible for the indescribable stench of decomposing bodies. Found in decaying vegetable and animal matter and formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria.
Includes cadaverine and putrescine (the smell of putrefying flesh or rotting fish), indole (smells like mothballs), and skatole (smells like poop).
Other chemical compounds produce smells akin to rotting cabbage, nasty garlic, and rotten eggs. Ptomaine was originally thought to cause food poisoning but has been disproven.
Raise your hand if you've had this smell cling to your nose hairs after a long day at work! Semi-related, death workers deserve a raise.
#HisAndHearsePress #Ptomaine #Decomposition #Cadaverine #Putrescine #Indole #Skatole #Putrefaction #Funeral #MortuaryScience #DeathCare #Embalming #Vocabulary #Stinky #Decomp
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#WordyWednesday: Shrouding Women
When you think of morticians, you might conjure images of creepy old men in black suits. But did you know that they've only been "in charge" of the dead for the last century or so? Before that, men were typically responsible for building coffins and digging graves. Body preparation fell to the women!
Women were already tasked with nursing the sick, distributing herbs, and aiding in childbirth, so bathing and dressing the dead was a natural progression. Since it was a duty that demanded care, gentleness, and propriety, men were simply unsuited to the task. Enter the shrouding women.
Many neighborhood women became skilled and knowledgeable in the art of preparing the dead. They understood the weather's effect on decomposition and how to tend to bodies suffering from various conditions. They lent their expertise to those in need, not for monetary compensation but as an act of community.
Duties included preparing a cooling board (sometimes an ironing board or barn door placed over chairs), washing and dressing the corpse, closing the eyes and mouth (coins on eyes and jaws secured shut with tied rags or forked sticks propped against the breast bone), and otherwise arranging the body into a restful pose.
Commercialization of death care after the Civil War led cabinetmakers to evolve from coffin builders to embalmers. They wrested control of bodies away from women, claiming women were weak, delicate, and unable to tolerate the sight of blood. As the men rose into the ranks of professionals, women were relegated to the sidelines of death care. They became decorations. Trade journal advertisements portrayed men doing funeral work and women as objects of beauty. The foundation was laid for men to dominate the industry for the next 100 years.
Fortunately, we've come full circle and women are entering funeral service in droves. Over 70% of graduating mortuary science classes are women. Turns out we *can* handle some blood after all.
#HisAndHearsePress #InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay #WomenInSTEM #WomenSupportingWomen #DeathCare #FuneralService #MortuaryScience #MortuarySchool #DeathPositive #FuneralDirector #Embalmer #Mortician #Undertaker