Lauren the Mortician Debunks Viral Claims That Charlie Kirk's Open Casket Hands Are Fake

[00:00] I am still having a struggling time

[00:03] believing that these hands right here on

[00:07] the open casket of the live performance

[00:09] of the beloved Charlie Kirk who was

[00:11] maliciously murdered the other day are

[00:14] actually real. So I've had to ask chat

[00:17] GPT. Now I rarely use chat GPT but what

[00:21] happened after this question was very

[00:24] weird. But anyway, we asked so to

[00:26] confirm these hands aren't real and sent

[00:29] the images of the hands and it said,

[00:31] "Yeah, looking at this wider shot

[00:33] confirms it even more clearly. The hands

[00:35] lying on the suit look artificial. The

[00:38] texture is too smooth. The color is flat

[00:40] and waxy. There are no veins, pores, or

[00:42] natural warmth. The positioning is also

[00:45] stiff and mannequinike and how a and not

[00:48] how a relaxed human hand would naturally

[00:50] rest. The hand with pink nails is

[00:53] clearly real. Blah blah blah. So, to

[00:55] confirm, the hands on the body in the

[00:56] suit aren't real. They look like wax or

[01:00] mannequin or some sort of prop. Now, let

[01:03] me show you what happened after I sent

[01:06] this message. I got this notification.

[01:09] Now, I haven't been on chat GPT for

[01:10] ages. The first time I start diving into

[01:13] this, it's literally came up saying that

[01:15] it looks like my server responded with

[01:17] the wrong SSL. Oh my god. He actually

[01:20] asked Chat GPT if the hands were real,

[01:24] not if they were deceased hands, just

[01:27] are they real? And then acted like he

[01:28] solved a crime novel when the AI said,

[01:31] "No, they're waxy." Congrats, you

[01:34] outsmarted a robot with a bad riddle.

[01:38] But here's the hilarious part.

[01:40] Everything Chat GPT listed as proof they

[01:43] were fake. Waxy texture, flat color,

[01:45] stiffness, positioned hands is literally

[01:48] imbalming 101. You accidentally read off

[01:52] my mortuary science textbook. So, thanks

[01:54] for the assist, buddy. Bruh, all of this

[01:57] conspiracy energy makes me realize how

[01:59] little people actually know about death

[02:02] care. Very next day, so they didn't even

[02:03] have time to refrigerate him and bomb

[02:05] him. Like, he got no autopsy done. Like,

[02:07] I mean, obviously, we saw what happened,

[02:08] right? We saw what happened. I mean,

[02:09] thank God I have not seen it. I don't

[02:10] want to see that. But I can assure you

[02:13] that that is not a person. That is not

[02:15] that's not real. That's not real. For it

[02:18] to get to this level, it's going to have

[02:20] to have been at least a week. Okay? I I

[02:22] remember I know. I mean, I've never

[02:23] worked in a funeral home. Okay? If

[02:25] there's a I don't even want to start

[02:27] this debate because because if you don't

[02:29] see it, I can't help those that I cannot

[02:31] help the blind. You know what I'm

[02:32] saying?

[02:32] >> And then we've got her. She literally

[02:34] says, "I've never worked at a funeral

[02:36] home." home and then launches into a

[02:38] whole CSI monologue like, "No. Have you

[02:41] worked in a funeral home?" Again, no.

[02:44] Then why are you out here diagnosing

[02:45] imbalming like you've got a prep room in

[02:47] your basement? She says they didn't have

[02:50] time to refrigerate him. They didn't

[02:52] have time to imbalm him. Wrong. He was

[02:54] imbalmed. That's why the hands look

[02:57] waxy. That's literally the whole point

[02:59] of imbalming. She says he didn't get an

[03:02] autopsy. Wrong. Again, high-profile

[03:05] homicide equals automatic autopsy.

[03:07] That's standard procedure. Doesn't

[03:09] matter who you are. She says for his

[03:12] hands to look that weird, it had to have

[03:14] at least been a week. Girl, how would

[03:16] you even know that? Did you sneak into a

[03:18] funeral home on a field trip and forget

[03:20] to tell us? Because unless you've stood

[03:22] over an inbalming table, you don't get

[03:24] to set timelines like you're the county

[03:26] corner. The reality is simple. He was

[03:29] autopsied immediately, inbalmed

[03:31] immediately, and yes, all of that can

[03:33] happen in a 24-hour window. When the

[03:36] family, law enforcement, and in this

[03:39] case, the vice president are involved.

[03:41] Funeral homes move fast. We definitely

[03:44] can when it matters. Now, about those

[03:46] hands, what you're seeing isn't a wax

[03:49] dummy. It's imbalming in cosmetics.

[03:52] Embalming firms the tissues, removes

[03:54] circulation and that alone creates this

[03:57] smooth waxy look. Then cosmetics are

[04:01] applied to restore color. In this case,

[04:04] the imbalmer clearly was trying to cover

[04:07] bruising. Going to give him the benefit

[04:08] of the doubt. Instead of color

[04:10] correcting, they just painted over it.

[04:13] It's too heavy. It's too dark. And it's

[04:15] the wrong shade. And that's why the

[04:18] hands look aged. And that's why the

[04:20] hands look unnatural. It reads as

[04:23] mannequin to people who don't know what

[04:25] they're looking at. But to me, it's just

[04:28] bad cosmetics. So, no, it's not about

[04:31] refrigeration. It's not some weak old

[04:33] body left sitting around, and it's

[04:36] definitely not Hollywood special

[04:38] effects. It's imbalming done quickly and

[04:41] cosmetics done poorly. The only thing

[04:43] fake here is the confidence of people

[04:45] pretending they know what happens behind

[04:47] closed doors in a funeral home. You

[04:49] don't need special effects experience to

[04:52] understand this. You need mortuary

[04:54] science. And that's why I'm here. So,

[04:57] let them keep shouting wax figure. All I

[04:59] see is inbalming with a bad paint job.

[05:01] And honestly, that's on the imbalmer,

[05:04] not the body. So, someone asked why

[05:06] doesn't he have an indent on his finger

[05:09] where his wedding ring should be. So,

[05:11] let's break that down because first,

[05:13] men's rings usually fit different than

[05:16] women's. Most men have larger knuckles,

[05:19] so the ring slides over the knuckle and

[05:21] sits looser on the finger itself. That

[05:24] means there's not always a deep indent

[05:26] to begin with. And if you watch videos

[05:28] of him, you'll even see him playing with

[05:30] his rings. So, it's not like that groove

[05:33] was permanent. Second, imbalming changes

[05:36] everything. The fluid firms and plumps

[05:39] the tissues almost like it's rehydrating

[05:42] the skin. It can smooth out small lines,

[05:45] wrinkles, even minor indents. I have had

[05:48] 90-year-old ladies who look years

[05:51] younger after imbalming because those

[05:53] fine wrinkles fill back in. It's like a

[05:56] natural botox, if you will. If there was

[05:59] a faint ring line, imbalming could

[06:02] absolutely erase it. And remember before

[06:05] imbalming the blood has already settled

[06:07] to the lowest points in the body which

[06:09] leaves the hands and face looking flat,

[06:12] sunken, salow. Embalming reverses that.

[06:16] It fills the tissues, evens the tone,

[06:19] and restores shape. That's literally why

[06:22] the process exists. So no indent on his

[06:26] finger doesn't mean the body isn't real.

[06:28] It means biology plus mortuary science

[06:31] did its job. Honestly, the only thing

[06:34] that's fake here are these wild internet

[06:36] theories. You also have questions about

[06:38] positioning of his hands. People keep

[06:41] asking why they are lower in the casket

[06:44] and not up higher hand overhand like the

[06:47] classic funeral pose. Here's the thing.

[06:50] Inbalmers position bodies differently

[06:54] all the time. Sometimes the hands just

[06:56] don't cooperate. Maybe there's rigor

[06:59] swelling. There very well could have

[07:01] been rigorous because of how quickly he

[07:03] died and then how quickly he was

[07:05] imbalmed. Could have been swelling or an

[07:08] injury that can make it look unnatural

[07:10] if you force them to have their hands

[07:12] one over the other. Sometimes the family

[07:14] can request a certain look and sometimes

[07:17] the imbalmer just thinks a different

[07:19] position looks more natural for that

[07:22] individual's body. My guess here, the

[07:25] imbalmer thought this looked more

[07:27] relaxed and natural for him instead of

[07:30] the standard handoverhand pose. It's not

[07:34] wrong. It's just a choice. And if you

[07:36] aren't familiar, when I say hand

[07:38] overhand pose, I mean like it's right

[07:40] right at the rib cage and one hand goes

[07:43] over the other and and the elbows are

[07:46] down by the side. That that's your

[07:47] traditional look, not the arms crossed,

[07:50] you know, down here. And the other most

[07:52] commonly asked question in my inbox, why

[07:55] was his bottom suit button undone? I I'm

[07:58] actually surprised most of you don't

[07:59] know that men don't button the bottom

[08:02] button of a suit jacket. That's fashion

[08:05] tradition going back over a century. The

[08:08] story goes that King Edward V III

[08:11] anyways in England in the early 1900s

[08:14] was too portly to fasten his bottom

[08:17] button and out of respect everyone

[08:19] copied him and it stuck. So today it's

[08:22] just standard tailoring etiquette. Top

[08:25] button fastened, bottom button left

[08:28] undone. There's your history lesson for

[08:30] the day. And fun fact, there are plenty

[08:32] of pictures of him alive wearing suits

[08:35] the exact same way. So, no, it's not

[08:38] suspicious. No, it's not disrespectful.

[08:41] It's just men's fashion 101. And you you

[08:44] might not know that if you don't

[08:45] normally wear suits or if you're not a

[08:48] man. So, there you go. My name is Lauren

[08:51] the Mortician, and I'm here to answer

[08:52] the questions most people are too afraid

[08:54] to ask, but I know you're thinking them.

[08:56] So, if you want more, hit like,

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[09:00] comments, and I will keep the series

[09:02] going. Death doesn't need to be a scary

[09:05] thing. It's a normal thing to want to

[09:07] talk about it and get answers,

[09:09] especially for something that happened

[09:10] so publicly. So, welcome to my page. I'm

[09:13] glad you're here and we'll catch you on

[09:15] the next one. Bye-bye.