Death has always frightened and will always frighten a person. But not every person - there are those among us who do not care at all about the mystical background of existence: he died and died, what is there to discuss. So who are these people, who are considered by many to be the darkest in the entire world? Is the job of a morgue orderly worth the spent nerves?
How to become an orderly
It is theoretically possible to get to the morgue from the street, but in practice people connected with medicine most often work here. Morgue jobs are well paid, however, and many struggle to get there as an orderly.
Legends
There are many stories about unprincipled cynical orderlies among the people. And they eat right on the corpses, and they take their skulls from the morgue for fun. In fact, no one in their right mind will even carry food into the refrigerator room: just imagine how many infections there are. Taking home someone's skull is also a stupid and problematic business - go and explain later to your relatives and the police where this headless horseman came from.
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Different morgues
Morgues are subdivided into anatomical and forensic. Anatomical is located in hospitals, corpses are brought here from other medical institutions. Forensic medicine is needed for police needs, because the law requires an expert opinion to close a criminal case. Various specialists work in these places: the police are "served" by an expert looking for traces of violence; in the anatomical morgue, the pathologist finds out the effect on the body of a fatal disease.
Cleanliness in the blood
The orderly from the morgue cannot be distinguished in a crowd from an ordinary person. Naturally, they do not smell of the dead, and there are no special marks. But they are all extremely clean people. They wash their hands whenever possible, because they understand what any infection is fraught with.
Money place
According to rumors, in the 90s, working in the morgue was considered very profitable. At that time, money and jewelry could be found in the pocket of the corpse, which no one kept records. But now everything is arranged differently: relatives are watching the property of the deceased very carefully. So the stories about winning lottery tickets are nothing more than a bike.
Death collection
On the other hand, many orderlies continue to collect all sorts of little things found in the pockets of the deceased. People are generally inclined to collecting, and this is where the matter takes on a competitive scale: who will find more interesting things. For this you can fly out of work, but the risk only adds to collecting sharpness.
Comfort comes first
Modern morgues are equipped with many things necessary for life. This work is nervous even by medical standards, so the hospital management is trying to brighten up the lives of orderlies and pathologists as much as they can. Gym, shower, plasma on the wall in the morgue are not uncommon.