psychanddeath: How to close the mouth of the deceased using the muscular suture technique: A) I
psychanddeath: How to close the mouth of the deceased using the muscular suture technique: A) Insert the needle under the right lower lip, pass it along the mandible for about an inch then come back out on the left.B) Insert the needle under the left upper lip, exit through the left nostril.C) Now we do a super fashionable septum piercing, they are so in right now… Exit through the right nostril.D) Insert the needle through the right nostril, along the maxilla, and exit from inside the right upper lip.E) The ends of the ligature may now be tied to lift the mandible into a natural closed position.Photos from “Embalming History, Theory, and Practice” by Robert C. Mayer. (X) -- source link
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