Paragrapher (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} paragrapher) wrote,@ 2008-08-11 15:50:00 |
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A Man with Backbone
I've spent the past couple months going through all the Six Feet Under seasons on Netflix. Don't know what my next DVD show is, but it'll probably be something with less than five seasons. These damn people just keep on living their drug-addled, death-happy, sex-obsessed lives, and I keep on watching.
A Man with Backbone
The customer who Freddy was embalming gave a spasm. Escaping gases lead to all sorts of movements and noises in the day after death, but this man specified in his preneed to be in the freezer for a week before embalming. Freddy had never heard of that, but it was the guy’s last wishes, so he did it. Freddy assumed it was a religious thing, since the guy had weird tribal tattoos running up and down his legs. Freddy had to take the guy out of the freezer for a good 12 hours, though, for his blood to warm enough to drain. And the thawed guy was now moving, shuddering a bit, almost as if someone was stuck underneath his body. Freddy rolled the customer to the side a little bit, and saw a distinct rippling up and down the customer’s spine. Something inside this dead man was alive, and it didn’t like the embalming fluid. Freddy took a scalpel and slit the back of the man’s neck. It might be a tapeworm – based on this guy’s tattoos, he had spent some serious time outside the U.S. Freddy dug a flashlight out from a desk, and turned back to the embalming table to see a huge snake sliding out the slit. It was bone white, dripping with red blood and a bit of clear green embalming fluid. It had no eyes, but huge fangs. It hit the ground with a wet plop, and then began wriggling away. It slithered into a corner of the embalming room, then found the drain in the middle of the floor and disappeared. Freddy pushed a file cabinet over the drain, and held the scalpel to the slit for half an hour before he was convinced there wasn’t a second snake coming out. That snake wasn’t a tapeworm on the backbone: it WAS the backbone.
I've spent the past couple months going through all the Six Feet Under seasons on Netflix. Don't know what my next DVD show is, but it'll probably be something with less than five seasons. These damn people just keep on living their drug-addled, death-happy, sex-obsessed lives, and I keep on watching.
A Man with Backbone
The customer who Freddy was embalming gave a spasm. Escaping gases lead to all sorts of movements and noises in the day after death, but this man specified in his preneed to be in the freezer for a week before embalming. Freddy had never heard of that, but it was the guy’s last wishes, so he did it. Freddy assumed it was a religious thing, since the guy had weird tribal tattoos running up and down his legs. Freddy had to take the guy out of the freezer for a good 12 hours, though, for his blood to warm enough to drain. And the thawed guy was now moving, shuddering a bit, almost as if someone was stuck underneath his body. Freddy rolled the customer to the side a little bit, and saw a distinct rippling up and down the customer’s spine. Something inside this dead man was alive, and it didn’t like the embalming fluid. Freddy took a scalpel and slit the back of the man’s neck. It might be a tapeworm – based on this guy’s tattoos, he had spent some serious time outside the U.S. Freddy dug a flashlight out from a desk, and turned back to the embalming table to see a huge snake sliding out the slit. It was bone white, dripping with red blood and a bit of clear green embalming fluid. It had no eyes, but huge fangs. It hit the ground with a wet plop, and then began wriggling away. It slithered into a corner of the embalming room, then found the drain in the middle of the floor and disappeared. Freddy pushed a file cabinet over the drain, and held the scalpel to the slit for half an hour before he was convinced there wasn’t a second snake coming out. That snake wasn’t a tapeworm on the backbone: it WAS the backbone.
