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You’d think they could have gotten a better mortician for the job. He looks weirdly stiff, kinda stuffed in there, and his face doesn’t look right(from this angle, anyway).
I'm a former mortician. The pope's body will be displayed in an open casket for a very long time so it practically needs to be pickled. That level of preservation comes at the cost of the body becoming as stiff as a peice of furniture and the skin having a greyish tone.
Weird way to respect the deceased.
He specifically did not want to be on display like this so there's no respect being applied what so ever.
I thought they just gave it a fresh coat of paint at this point.
I thought he looked like an anatomy specimen. It's kinda freaky seeing that outside of a lab.
It's because he's dead
I'm a mortician and all we have been talking about is how shit of a job they did. We call those pancake hands because they're flat. They're also hovering, which is why they look so unnatural. They didn't use any dye, which is why he's that horrible color. It's called formaldehyde gray. I guess maybe dye is left out for some religious reason? But there is absolutely no excuse for those hands.
We all assume it was done by some old guy who only does embalmings once every 10 years, or however often a Pope is dying.
It's like they just left him there.
His hands are even floating above his body, not even resting.
He's casting heal serious wound.