Aggregate Death
Woman Cuts off Breasts and Toes of Corpse
Shayna Smith
I shared this story from last week, but it has since gotten much weirder. Here’s the original story.
Look, we all deal with death in different ways. When someone important in your life passes there’s this huge emptiness inside and you don’t know what you’re gonna do with yourself. Even when it’s your WORST ENEMY.
Shayna Smith dealt with her grief over losing a rival by crashing the funeral and defiling that rival’s body. The deceased was the ex of Smith’s boyfriend and the police described their relationship as “frenemies.” Who needs actual enemies when you’ve got frenemies like this?
According to reports, the woman’s mother saw Smith with her hands in the casket. She walked over, probably not even imagining something so awful could be happening, and Smith bolted. That’s when she saw that the deceased’s make-up was smudged and her hair and FACE had been cut. Smith is now being charged with illegal dissection of a human body. Thanks for the head’s up that you need a permit to do an autopsy, coppers.
This week Shayna was also charged with the ‘”unlawful removal of body part from deceased” for cutting off the toe and breasts from the body of the other woman as it was awaiting cremation at a funeral home, the Tulsa District Attorney’s Office said.” via Reuters.
I’m waiting for this story to be disproven on Scopes, but until then I’m left to wonder … how in the hell?
I have trouble believing this one on two levels: How can someone be so crazy that she’d commit such actions? And, two, I don’t understand how she was able to commit such abuses without being noticed.
From what I’m reading, Shayne slashed the face of the deceased during the viewing. This action was noticed when Shayne scampered away.
When she removed the breasts and the toes, apparently — per Reuters — the body was awaiting cremation at the funeral home.
I’m assuming Shayne came back into the funeral home (or hid somewhere in the home) and waited until the deceased was placed in a room alone. Depending on the tools Shayne used, removing a breast and a toe would have taken anywhere from a from a couple minutes to a half-hour.
Perhaps this was all accomplished using Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak?
10 Tales of the Funeral Business
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Its not peaceful, but its all behind a closed metal door.
For the love of god, we dont go full mummy and sew the lips shut. Anyone who says that is likely talking about suturing, which is all internal.
Happens a lot. We arent crooks. This is a business. I know some funeral homes can be shifty, but we are not all like that.
We dont live at the funeral home. We commute to work. Some of us are 15 minutes away. It will take 30 minutes at least for us to even be pulling out of the garage with the van.
Funny story. My brother asked me to tie his tie. I tied it on myself, and I couldnt get the length right. So I did it this way. After I was done, he realized why and got wigged.
Heard this from a fellow student. At 4 weeks, they are not only unrecognizable, but unembalmable, unrestorable, and the stench would gag a fly.
Another story from a fellow student. Apparently, she was told she could get it, but then told it was at the estate lawyer. She called them liars and left in a huff.
No. They are embalmed. They are sutured. We cannot just throw them in.
Yes, I see dead people. Sometimes 4-5 a day. It all just depends.
Of course it gets depressing. But we hide it well.
14 Disinterment / Exhumation Stories
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I asked my Confessions of a Funeral Director Facebook page:
Most funeral directors have — at one time or another — had to exhume / disinter a casket and/or a body for legal or family reasons. Some of us have been privy to see the body after it’s sat underground for some time. So, what did the body look like (still viewable)? How long had it been buried?
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Five Death Things I Found on the Internet this Week
1.Man Killed by Atomic Wedgie
A 34-year-old man who killed his stepfather giving him a so-called “atomic wedgie” last year is going to jail for involuntary manslaughter—and that’s the silver lining.
Brad Lee Davis killed his stepfather last January when he managed to suffocate him inside his own underwear while performing the wedgie. Davis just pleaded guilty to the charges, but it reportedly could have been much worse for him—prosecutors originally tried to pursue first-degree murder charges. Via Gawker
2. Burying the Dead in Alaska Is More Complicated Than You’d Think
VIA VICE
Bob has been burying the dead for 42 years. “Anything that you can think of, I’ve probably buried it,” he says with a certain even-toned inflection that seems to convey a mixture of callousness and empathy, if there is such a thing. Thirty of those years have been spent burying the dead in Alaska. Victims of ATV accidents, snowmobile accidents, fishing accidents, mining accidents, airplane accidents, moose attacks, bear maulings, exposure—”a person traveling from one village to another in the dead of winter, their snowmobile may fall through the ice, they get wet, get out, curl up next to a tree, and they die. Almost anything you can think of we deal with. We get a lot of difficult cases that you would seldom see down in the Lower 48. I think the first bear mauling that I handled up here, in the early 80s, it just kind of took me aback because I hadn’t been around that. Like what the bear would eat off the human and stuff like that.”
Read more HERE
3. There was a fantastic article in The New York Times entitled “See Death as a Triumph, Not a Failure.”
Here’s an excerpt:
No longer a triumph, death became a failure — of the physician’s skill, of the patient’s will. It was to be avoided at all costs. The mass death of the Great War, which left so many bodies missing, exploded or rotting on the ground, further undermined the view of the corpse as a meaningful stage of life. Cremation grew in popularity as a way to “cleanse” with fire the last shameful disintegration.
What we have lost is not only a savoring of ephemerality, but also an appreciation of the way that time marks the body. We try too hard to keep the terminally ill alive because we can’t admit to finality.
4. A dead body fell out into an intersection in New Zealand.
5. Here’s a nostalgic photo of yesteryear funeral industry … back when funeral directors also doubled as furniture makers. The “Keep Em Flying” emblem was a WWII poster, so I’m assuming this photo was from the 1940s.
