People are freaked out after mortician reveals what really happens to your organs after you die

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By stefan armitage

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If you’ve been blissfully unaware of what happens to your body post-mortem, brace yourself — this revelation might just haunt you.

GettyImages-72991314.jpgA mortician has revealed what really happens to your organs after you die. Credit: Darrin Klimek / Getty

Mortuary technician Hayleigh - known on TikTok as @themortuarytech - has gone viral for spilling some unsettling details about what happens to your organs after you shuffle off this mortal coil.

Spoiler alert: They don’t go back where they came from.

Appearing on the wildly entertaining Tea At Four podcast, Hayleigh laid it all bare. “During a postmortem examination, people seem to think that your organs are put back where nature intended,” she explained. “They’re not.”

According to Hayleigh, following a post-mortem examination, your organs are essentially bagged up like leftovers and placed back into your chest and abdominal cavities, which are then stitched up.


And no, your brain doesn’t stay in your head either. Why? Because once your insides are removed, it’s not exactly easy to reassemble the original setup.

“They’re all put in a clinical bag back inside your torso, and your chest cavity and your stomach/abdomen, and you’re sutured back up. So your brain’s not in your head," she said.

The podcast hosts - Lauren and Billy were visibly horrified.

Billy, exclaimed: “Oh my god. [That] really freaked me out a bit… just thrown in like a goody bag.”


When the podcast's producer, Bobbi, asked why this happens, Hayleigh explained: "Because once you start cutting and taking things out, it's not going to go back. It's just going to wobble [...] It's best to keep it all contained."

Elsewhere in the podcast, Hayleigh revealed how she's seen some of the bodies she's been working on "gasp", and revealed that she's skilled in applying makeup and false nails to the dead.

Over in the comments section, the reactions were just as intense.

“I absolutely wish I didn’t know that,” admitted one commenter. Another lamented: “Seems I’ve taken a terribly wrong turn somewhere along my TikTok journey.”

One more joked: “Whoever digs us up in 3,000 years is gonna question everything.”

Another more understanding comment read: "Did people seriously think everything was all put back together again?"

Despite the macabre nature of her job, Hayleigh insists her goal is to educate, not terrify. She’s made it clear that she has her workplace’s support in demystifying the mortuary world and showing the care that goes into preparing loved ones for their final farewell.

Yes, it may sound spooky, but Hayleigh is here to "educate people people on the amount of genuine care that goes into looking after people's loved ones".

And if it wasn't for people like Hayleigh, we'd all just be lying around stinking up the place.

Featured image credit: Darrin Klimek / Getty