how and where is the individuals blood disposed of? where do they put it...do they keep it??? or is it thrown away??? what happens?
2007-05-26 12:12:28 · 4 answers · asked by laurabella8 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
Umm let see. Once you die your heart stops beating. Without a heart beat the blood stops pumping. If the blood stops pumping, well I doubt it will be flowing around let alone leaking out. I stayed up late one night to watch a Program about all this and it had Whoppi Golberg who was in this trade before she became famous. As far as I am aware the normal embalming has zero to do with blood they just preserve the skin, with balming fluid so you do not look too bad if you are put on view for the Funeral. The only time I have heard about fluid exchange, when you donate your body to Science. Then they cut into the main artery in the neck and literally pump you full of chemicals to preserve everything. You kinda expand a lot, size wise and then eventually the fluid will seep out through every pour of your skin and you will return to normal size wise. Then you are ready to be used by medical students.
I also know what happens to you when you are buried and disintegrate.
2007-05-26 12:21:19 · answer #1 · answered by gillianprowe 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
When someone is embalmed, their blood is drained from the body and disposed of according to the laws of hazardous materials disposal in their state. When the blood has been drained, the mortician will pump in a formaldehyde-type solution that will slow down the decaying process by acting as a preservative.
2007-05-26 12:16:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Embalming isn't an Infectious Disease but then I don't think I could've come up a place to put this question either.
2007-05-26 14:14:42 · answer #3 · answered by TweetyBird 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This site explains it step by step.
http://www.dodgeco.com/articles/embalming.html
2007-05-26 12:39:04 · answer #4 · answered by whtecloud 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋