There are numerous rumors about hospitals.
The most famous of these, and the one that is still whispered about today, is the rumor of the corpse-washing part-time job.
There are many different types of rumors about part-time corpse washers.
One involves cleaning corpses in an underground morgue.
This job is said to leave the person's body with the particular smell that the dead release for days after.
Another story goes that in the basement of a hospital, there is a huge pool filled with formalin, in which corpses used for dissection exercises and experiments float in the liquid.
The bodies are placed in the formalin pool to prevent decomposition, but the gas that accumulates in the body causes the bodies to float up, so they must be poked with sticks and submerged overnight.
Other jobs include washing swollen, formalin-preserved corpses with water and carrying them to the autopsy room, or wiping the corpses one by one on the floor with a cloth.
What they all have in common is that the pay for these part-time jobs is quite high, and the work is not only eerie but the smell of death that lingers on the body afterward is also horrendous. For this reason, they are known among students as legendary part-time jobs.
So, do these corpse-washing jobs actually exist?
First of all, formalin, which is considered essential for the legend of washing corpses, is a highly volatile liquid, and if it was kept in a swimming pool or the like, it would vaporize quickly.
In addition, when handling corpses for autopsies at hospitals, great care and respect for the specimens are required, so it is not something that can be easily entrusted to students, like in the legend.
In other words, there is no such preservation method, let alone a corpse-washing part-time job.
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