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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I've yet to write Part 2 of my feature story on embalmer Richard Hirschman. In that story, I'll note something interesting Richard shared with me. He said at least 50 percent of the funerals at the 10 funeral homes he works for are now cremations. Nationwide, I bet this percentage is even higher.

This means that embalmers could not find these strange white fibrous clots in most people who are dying ... because these bodies are being cremated. Richard told me he has "hundreds" of photos of these clots by now ... but he would have had many more if half the funerals weren't cremations.

He also noted that these clots aren't found in the embalming process with every body, but that doesn't mean those clots weren't in veins or arteries. He thinks many more clots aren't being found. Lastly, he told me he is finding either these white fibrous clots or "dirty blood" in about half of the embalming sessions he performs.

(Far more cremations also means there's far fewer opportunities to perform autopsies on people who may have died because of these clots. Also, cremations are significantly cheaper than traditional burial services . The trend towards far more cremations is probably partially explained by rising inflation and rising funeral costs. In other words, cremation is an inflation "work-around" for many families.)

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Thank you for reporting, Bill, I am very moved to see this. I was thinking just today at how hard it must be for people to speak out, risk everything to do it, only to find that relatively few people find out about it, or, if people do, they don't react the way one would have expected, back in the pre-covidian world. As you know, I've been looking around the Internet for censored videos to transcribe every day for 3 years and I had not until very recently come across Nicky Rupright King or Jason Liosatos. That's how heavy the censorship has been.

PS. A typo in there, my fault! Where it says "Richard Hirschman is the gentlemen who had, I believe..." The word "gentlemen" should be "gentleman."

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