Former mortician here. These aren’t used everywhere or all the time. If your family requests your body be embalmed, all the liquids and semi-solids of your insides will be sucked out of your guts using a hollow spear hooked up to a vacuum. If done right, there should be no liquid left in your body to leak out.
The funeral homes I worked at didn’t have these. If it was necessary to plug the anus, we’d pack it with a bunch of kapok fiber. It’s like cotton but doesn’t absorb liquid.
I have so many questions but I’m high, so, can you just write more about your job please? I’m fascinated.
Future archaeologists will be left to ponder the ritual significance of this object. Why were so many people buried with this grave good?
“We hypothesize it was for religous reasons”
ritual object
Fun fact: the cork stopper in a cask, keg, or barrel is called a bung. The hole into which it is inserted is called a bunghole.
Bunghole is also a euphemism for anus. So, a question for any morticians here: can we start calling the corpse plug a bung? I’d consider a career change if I got to tell people about the bung in grandpa’s bunghole.
Somehow this step didn’t make it into Mortuary Assistant.
It’s one of the on-the-job revelations they tell you about in training.
“Oh, and by the way would you mind corkscrewing grampa over there?”
