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Orianna Rosa Royle

Morticians on TikTok are inspiring young women to join the morbid profession

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Historically, you’d usually only get a first-hand view of what a mortician gets up to when it’s your turn to be embalmed. But now, people are getting a behind-the-curtain look at the morbid profession thanks to TikTok.

With over, 880,000 followers @funeralbabe—who goes by Melissa Jo for privacy purposes—is one of the most popular funeral professionals on the app, racking up millions of likes with videos discussing all things dead bodies, from how human remains are shipped to what happens when a body is “unviewable”.

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