Are You Scared Of Death? Mortician Answers Your Questions | LADbible Stories

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In this fascinating episode of Honesty Box, mortician and funeral director Victor M. Sweeney gives his unfiltered answers to your taboo questions about death. After encountering his first dead body as a child, Victor tells us what it's like to be confronted by the smell of death and describes the intricate details of embalming a human body. Victor tackles life and death's big mysteries, reveals how he copes with the most harrowing deaths and explains why he actually doesn't fear dying. Thank you to Victor M. Sweeney for taking part in this episode of Honesty Box. Victor's book 'Now Departing' is available here: https://bit.ly/NowDepartingBook 🧠 Explore the best of life & death stories on LADbible Stories Working With The Dead - Roundtable https://youtu.be/Ff5bs4D-26I Honesty Box - Paramedic https://youtu.be/CPzEnIotxbM I Ate My Friends To Survive - Minutes With https://youtu.be/5aVI-5oZbDA 🔵 Welcome to LADbible Stories, the home of powerful true stories, raw interviews and documentaries. From Minutes With, The Meet, to the unfiltered Honesty Box, we shine a light on extraordinary people and their experiences. 📲 Subscribe to LADbible Stories here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4oVjJptcsvtgIMrdIUQYlQ 📺 Looking for more from the world of LADbible? https://www.youtube.com/@UCYRE3PMYatMVXmqmulF0sgA https://www.youtube.com/@UChfrWzVNU6qN0690-7yLoiw 00:00 - 00:40 - Intro 00:40 - 01:40 - What is embalming? 01:40 - 02:11 - What does death smell like? 02:11 - 04:00 - What was the first dead body you ever saw? 04:00 - 05:07 - Do you sew people's orifices up? 05:07 - 06:55 - What's the worst injury you have seen on a body? 06:55 - 07:58 - What happens in the 24 hours after death? 07:58 - 09:15 - Are you afraid of death? 09:15 - 10:00 - Do you always close people's eyes? 10:00 - 12:15 - Do you deal with people who have taken their own lives? 12:15 - 15:25 - What is your favourite part of the body? 15:25 - 17:00 - Do you deal with children's bodies? 17:00 - 17:55 - How are you not depressed? 17:55 - 19:13 - What's your body count? 19:13 - 20:16 - Are there ever maggots in bodies? 20:16 - 21:00 - Worst body fluid to deal with? 21:00 - 22:08 - What are most people's deathbed regrets? 22:08 - 23:00 - What if somebody dies with an erection? 23:00 - 23:55 - Do you do hair and make-up? 23:55 - 25:55 - How do people like to remember the dead? 25:55 - 27:13 - One piece of advice that you would give to deal with grief? 27:13 - 28:50 - The work you do is amazing!