A mortician with 500,000 TikTok followers shared videos about applying makeup on the dead to remove stigma around death: 'It's just a part of life'
A TikToker who gained 500,000 followers on the platform by posting videos about her work with the dead says she wants to lessen the stigma around death.on TikTok, worked as a death care professional demystifying what it's like to be a mortician and dismantling the stigma around death on social media.
"It is definitely a calling," she told Insider in an interview."I felt like I was helping them and that's how I continue to feel with all different aspects of death work. Taylor joins a list of death care professionals trying to create transparency around their work on social media because the industry has always been shrouded in secrecy and misinformation,Amid a shortage of workers in the industry in the US, enrollment in mortuary schools jumped in 2022,"The shortage is so serious right now that there's a 90% job placement rate for graduates of these programs," Leili McMurrough, program director at Worsham College of Mortuary Science in Illinois,...
After her father's death, and after her mother lost custody of her, she became legally orphaned. Her sister then won custody of her in court when she was 17.
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