Morticians are people that may help you when you do not know.
Morticians work in morgues or mortuaries, and specialize in taking care of dead human bodies, right from the day the bodies are brought to the morgues or mortuaries, until the burial day.
ABS Queen Anigbogu visited Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku-Awka, for a chat with some of them.
The mortuary at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku-Awka has three morticians with decades of experience in preparing and preserving dead bodies till their days of interment.
Aside the three morticians, the hospital also has a Supervisor, Mr. Eva Ezeh, who oversees the day-to-day running of the mortuary.
Speaking with the ABS, the Supervisor, Mr. Ezeh, outlined the work schedule of a mortician to include reception of corpses, tagging, labeling, computing and manual documentation, preservation or embalmment of the corpses, which are of two methods – cold or dry, as well as body bagging, among others.
When asked his reason for taking up the job, the Supervisor, who is a medical laboratory scientist, said that he chose it because of his zeal to bring professionalism into mortuary services, and to accord respect and dignity to dead bodies.
The Chief Mortician at the mortuary, Mr. Chilune Nwoha, explained that he derives joy in taking care of dead bodies, and also revealed that in his twenty-eighty years in mortuary services, he has never experienced any strange or weird happenings in the course of doing his job.
He further said that he does not do any special thing, like using a hard object to knock at the mortuary door before entering the mortuary, and that all the people he had trained over the years are not doing such as well.
Another mortician, Mr. Ben Wreath, who is from Liberia, said that his parents have no objections to his choice of career, and that in Liberia, there are schools where people who are interested in mortuary services are trained for one year and six months, and also said that he has never experienced any strange happenings in his fifteen years of doing the job.
However, Mr. Frank Farley, another mortician from Liberia, who has been in mortuary services for ten years, said he has had strange experiences twice, though not in Anambra State, but his faith in God has been keeping him because he believes that when a person dies, he is dead and gone.
Mr. Farley, married with children, said that he has the support of his wife in the job, and that his twelve-year-old son sees him as a hero and a strong man for working in the morgue.
Inside the mortuary, ABS news crew saw corpses in body bags placed on stainless steel shelves.
The crew also saw refrigerators, which they were told will soon be activated to enable people make choice of either cold or dry method of preservation of the bodies of their dead loved ones.
All iron must go to the blacksmith, therefore try and visit the funeral homes to see for yourself what life is all about.
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