A UK funeral director took to social media to share what his life is like working with the deceased — which includes some spooky encounters and many one-sided conversations.
I’ve personally always wondered how someone gets into the profession of working with the dead and what their jobs are like.
Luckily, a man named Jacob Walsh answered many of my nosy thoughts in several videos on his TikTok page.
“Ghosts — have I seen them? Have I experienced them? I’ve felt a presence — usually in the mortuary, which is completely understandable as it’s where people in my care are resting,” he revealed in one video, with over 30,000 views.
“Numerous times if I’m working late…I’ve been doing this now for five years, and there’s just been more and more consistent things that have happened, and I have definitely felt people tapping me on the back,” Walsh shared.
“If they’re tapping me on the shoulder, that just reassures me that I must be doing right by them.”
Walsh said he talks to the dead and greets them every morning and says goodnight at the end of his workday.
The empathetic funeral director even talks to those in the casket when he’s grooming and preparing them: “If I’m shaving gentlemen, I’ll just say ‘I’m just going to get you underneath the chin or I’m going to trim your eyebrows a bit.’”
Aside from talking about his experiences at work, after a commenter asked about what happens to one’s bowel movements after they’ve passed on, Walsh gave insight in another video into what happens to a body after it dies.
“If your bladder or bowels are full when you die, you obviously relax when you pass, so it does happen.”
The undertaker reassured the living that it’s nothing to be embarrassed about: “When we take you back into our care, before we dress and prepare you, we wash and shower you. It’s not really a big deal for us.”
Regardless of which video you watch of Walsh’s, the comment section on each of them is people asking him questions about his work — or thanking him for being such a kind individual.
“Very compassionate and sensitively handled. Well done Sir!” read one comment.
“You sir are a credit to our vocation,” another proud person wrote.
A person who knows a bit about Walsh’s job shared their experience: “I was married to an undertaker years ago, and we lived above the funeral home. I used to run through the mortuary with my eyes closed to get to the garage where my car was, never witnessed anything though.”
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