Embalmed Seafood & Illicit Coffeemakers | 4M #212

Welcome to the two-hundred-and-twelfth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #212, where we’ll serve up bite-sized, easily-digestible nuggets of the deathcare news you need to crush conversations in the week ahead. Bon appetit!

Frozen food freeze

A Nigerian lawmaker is hoping his colleagues will join him in investigating reports that companies are using embalming fluid to preserve frozen foods. Dr. Chike Okafor “expressed deep concern over growing public reports that certain substances — including formalin, sodium hydroxide, and carbide — originally meant for industrial or embalming purposes, may be used by some vendors to preserve perishable food items such as fish, meat, prawns, and shrimps.” 

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Dangerous work

The employees of Restland Funeral Home in Dallas had to deal with death in a different way last Monday, as one of their own was tragically killed when a burial vault collapsed and pinned him from the waist down. Dallas Fire-Rescue were able to lift the vault using the jaws of life and air bags, but the man’s injuries were too severe, and he passed away at a local hospital. We offer our sincere condolences to the family of 24-year-old Angel Anthony Rojas as well as to his coworkers at Restland Funeral Home.

The housewife and the Haitian mortician

Attorney/funeral director/reality personality Phaedra Parks isn’t the only star of a Bravo network “Housewives” show to add their drama to the deathcare profession. During the recent “Real Housewives of Miami” season-ending reunion show, former model Julia Lemigova was accused of cheating on her wife with a Haitian mortician and giving him a coffee machine as a gift. Lemigova admitted that some of that rumor was true; while there was an affair, no coffee pot was provided in exchange for his services.