Victor M. Sweeney, a licensed funeral director and mortician, gives a tour of a funeral home in Minnesota. From the intricate processes and tools used to embalm a body to the “selection room” filled with caskets and urns, this unique tour gives unprecedented access to a mortuary and funeral chapel.
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Director: Katherine Wzorek
Director of Photography: David Diebel
Editor: Matthew Colby
Talent: Victor Sweeney
Guest: Shawn Nygaard
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: D. Eric Martinez
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila
Casting Producer: Nicole Ford
Camera Operator: Haylie Flesness
Gaffer: Jason Bedard
Audio: Phil Kerr
Production Assistant: Riley Thelen
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
Graphics Supervisor: Ross Rackin
Designer: Lea Kichler
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Want more Victor M. Sweeney in your life? Check out his podcast “Death And” on his channel @victormsweeney https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCplJzJendfah_GkRTBL1snQ
And learn more about his memoir, NOW DEPARTING, from Gallery Books: https://bit.ly/NowDeparting
Thank you. 🤗 Even though he has his own channel please keep bringing him back.
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I knew someone who wanted to be a mortician as a kid.
He said he was a animal rap1st/k1ller. Figured he would be a serial k1ller eventually. Or by the grace of God just have s3x with the corpses. Dude looks like his cousin too. Which looks like epsteins
Yeh. So they could be leaving things out. Once we get to the point we want to play with corpses we ain’t like you on some level.
as informative and interesting as this is, it makes me sad how commercialized and sanitized death has become. draining a dead body of fluid and replacing it with extremely toxic chemicals so they look less dead for longer. essentially turning people into mannequins and sealing them in a box to delay any natural processes that come with death
Sorry buddy but it’s wrong since you pollute water and people should be cremated to avoid all these highly toxic products in the environment!
Funeral are just a money scam in this twisted world!
He’s so classy, i like him
Question-If a body is embalmed and buried for awhile, how can police still test and examine that body for a crime scene? Won’t any testing being done not give results due to embalming?
Never would have thought about watching something like this before I’ve always been terrified of dead bodies but by dad passed one week ago and the thought of him being in some strange place with people we don’t know doing god knows what really weirded me out it’s still weird but I think it was weirder when my imagination had to fill in the gaps I don’t think it’s sank in for me yet either that or the grieving part of my brain is broken I am starting to wonder tbh 🙁
Dude also great in Revenge of the Nerds.
Well you said that the embalming fluids are toxic, don’t they lead to soil toxicity when the body degrades and if yes isn’t it unreasonable to let that happen just to make the families of the corpse to feel good
So what happens to all the blood (how much?) that you drain out? Just down the drain?
Yes, it goes down the drain into the sewers
So you are putting toxic chemicals in the ground. Nice.
Alhamdulillah for Islam
I lost my grandpa last week. The funeral was a few days ago. This was a difficult watch, but I needed to know how everything happened before the funeral. I know he’s in a better place, but I miss him so much.
Feels like a Wes Anderson movie lmao
I love Victor’s sense of style.
I just finished reading his new book,Now Departing.
It’s excellent,and well written.
He would make a great teacher at mortuary school.
We all think we are all this and all that…then we end up with this guy and his tools😂😂
this is probably the only thing helping me with my brothers death, seeing how he was handled and knowing what they did with him because i didnt get to say goodbye
I thought that it would be unsafe for the person to have toxic embalming fluids in them, but then I remember that they’re already dead.
Very interesting to see how it’s done in another country.