Work in the morgue: not for the faint of heart

Working in the morgue always causes unhealthy interest. Someone is interested in "otherworldly" moments related to the dead.

Someone can not understand what compels people to spend so much time next to the deceased for a scanty salary. What is the work in the morgue?

Who works there?

"Morgue" or "pokoynitskaya" - prostorial, unprofessional names of the pathomorphological department. It is the pathologist doctor who is the last person to determine the exact cause of death. In order to do this correctly, you need to have the most versatile knowledge, high professionalism, efficiency and ... the ability to communicate with people. After all, it is the pathologist who has to talk with the relatives of the deceased. Unfortunately, the pathomorphological department is financed according to the "residual" principle, so the "white" salary of both pathologists and nurses leaves much to be desired.

In the morgue there are other specialties. The work of the orderly in the morgue does not suit everyone. It is the orderlies engaged in "dirty" work: they carry the corpses, wash them, put things right after opening. The work is not easy and very low paid, so it is often taken by those who do not want to hire other companies: people without education, drinkers, etc. Of course, this is not the case everywhere. In large cities, only people with medical education are employed, even by nurses. In many localities, it is not easy to get an orderly in a morgue. The queue is painted for many years to come. What is so attractive about working in the morgue? The salary there is small, labor is hard. What's the secret?

How much do they get in the morgue?

Salary in the morgue is really tiny, and doctors, and junior staff. But ... relatives of customers pay (often behind the scenes, past the cash desk) all additional services. And there are a lot of them: the deceased needs to be washed, changed, sometimes painted, so that his appearance does not shock relatives. All this costs a lot of money. That's why many orderlies are ready to go to work on holidays, provide a variety of services. All-knowing journalists have found out that working in a morgue as a hospital attendant gives an income that exceeds even the salaries of pathologists and doctors. Work in the morgue is thousands of rubles of illegal income. Another thing is that not everyone's conscience allows taking money from grief-stricken relatives. But this is a completely different story.

Morgue: Mysticism

In the morgue there are people who do not believe in God or in otherworldly forces. This is understandable: a person who believes in devilry, resurrection, positive and negative vibrations, could not be with the corpses for most of his time. Are there mystical cases in the morgue? Probably. Watching who and what he believes. It happened, though infrequently, that the dead, who entered the pathomorphological department, suddenly revived. Is this mystery or just an oversight of the doctors? Unknown. Very popular are "reliable" stories of orderlies about how people scream in crematoria, who, being dead, burned alive. But not a single case has been documented, so these stories remain on the conscience of their storytellers. Is it frightening to work in a morgue? You know, some are afraid of the dark, even if they are at home. Each person has his own fear. Work in the morgue is not much different from the work of plumbing, auto mechanic, cosmetologist, if a person treats her with love or respect.