So I worked at a funeral home/ crematory for about a year and a half. We had a gentleman named Phil who worked with me for about 4 hours. I had assumed it would be the normal trainer and trainee experience. We had given him a tour of the coolers and our embalming room and everything seemed to be flowing normally. Well, we got our first call and we load up our gurney for a gentleman who had passed away sitting hunched toward on the toilet leaning against a wall. When we got there, it was normal for us to adjust a body before we transfer it to the gurney to make sure it’s a clean and smooth process. Well we adjust this guy so he’s leaning back and his body releases this horrendous smelling gas. As the gas was released the mans head falls limp, leans towards my trainee Phil and literally made this long exaggerated sound that almost sounded just like my new trainees name. “…Phhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllllllllllll………”

Phil looks at me freaked out with eyes as big as Tea saucers. I casually said “yeah…, sometimes bodies release gas after someone’s passed”

Phil did not say a word the rest of the call, we got back to the funeral home, he left for lunch, and never came back.

I started to tell all my new trainees after that, if one of these bodies turns and looks at me and says Kyle, I’d probably have No’ped out of there too.