This is a short instructional video about my methods of closing a dead mans mouth. Morticians use various tricks to keep the decedents mouth closed and I haven't showed them all here because I just don't use the towel or a needle injector for example. I show how the mouth of the deceased person looks like, which is much different from what is showed in the movies or what many imagine. The most reliable one is suturing the mouth shut. I've done it many times now and it is by far the best of them all. Sometimes all I need to do is to close the mouth with a tissue paper or just with my hands. Rigor mortis plays a big role here, wheter I'm opening or closing the mouth. Sometimes the rigor mortis prevents me from opening the mouth even slightly and I need to wrap the head with something to catch the fluids that can come out of the mouth or nose while I'm turning the body on the side to dress it for the funeral. Closing the mouth is the hardest part of preparing the body for burial and the most rewarding one when the job is done properly. Since, for various reasons, I cannot show all this on a real dead body, I decided to act as one, doing all of the stuff on myself. It wasn't an easy video to film but I think that it was well worth the struggle and I had lot of fun making it.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Methods of closing the mouth
0:12 How dead people's faces really look like
0:37 Opening the mouth
0:55 Stuffing the mouth
1:16 Wiping the inside of the mouth dry
1:30 Closing MANUALLY
1:37 Closing with TISSUE
1:57 Closing with SUPERGLUE
2:25 Closing with PLASTIC MOULD
2:50 STITCHING the mouth shut
5:02 A few outtakes

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