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Meet Miranda, a mortician at Milward Funeral Directors in Lexington, Kentucky. Her initial fear of death led her to a career of embalming bodies.

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00:07Embalming makes me feel like an artist more than a scientist. Yes, I know my anatomy. Yes,
00:14I know what these chemicals are doing, but it has everything to do with art after that.
00:22An average embalming from start to finish for me takes anywhere from an hour and a half to two
00:27hours. I look at the deceased and think, wow, after everything they've done on Earth,
00:33it just must be amazing to be having the answers that they've finally been given.
00:42I might even talk to them sometimes. They haven't talked back yet.
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