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...makeup on dead people before,” Chauvi??re states quietly. The makeup came courtesy of the Dodge Chemical Company right here in Cambridge, which also makes embalmers’ fluid, plastic eyeball covers, and the wires used to keep people’s jaws together. Chauvi??re admits that funeral makeup doesn’t offer a lot of cosmetic options. “Traditionally, we glue the lips together,” he says, and in terms of lipstick colors, “you pretty much have the options of beige or rose...
With a striking lack of self-consciousness, Chauvi??re goes over some of the everyday tasks of his position. For one thing, there were the frequent trips to the airport. “So, you know, you have to prepare your corpse for air travel,” he says. “You strap them in a box, embalm them, put in a couple of pillows—it’s just like putting someone to bed.” For shorter distances, Chauvi??re hits the open road without the nuisance of nagging back-seat...
Sometimes Chauvi??re would also pinch-hit as a coroner’s assistant where one of his tasks included weighing organs. He did not hold an embalmer’s license, but was legally allowed to assist with the process so long as there was a licensed embalmer present...
...Chauvi??re’s his experiences were as amusing as putting make-up on corpses. One time in the remote village of Pine Grove, La., he had to remove a body from a car that had been set on fire. Chauvi??re and his team, sweltering in their black suits in the 100 degree heat, cut open the sides of the car with an acetylene torch and crawled into the burnt-out truck...
This happened right before lunch. Rather than go to lunch, Chauvi??re got in his car and drove home. He took off his suit and put it in a grocery bag, took off his shoes and placed them in another bag, took a shower, brought the suit to the dry cleaners’ and just told them to “make it clean.”There were lighter moments as well. Chauvi??re remembers some of the memorial services as being particularly colorful, like when a 6-year-old composed a memorial rap for his grandmother...