August 2020

Page A17 AUGUST 2020 FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS S ec t i on A MORGANFIELD & STURGIS, KY - John Whitsell (R) of Whitsell Funeral Home is shown taking delivery of the firm’s new 2019 Cadillac Heritage Hearse, built by Federal Coach and sold by John Muster (L) of Muster Coaches. Whitsell Funeral Home Muster Coaches 1-800-274-3619 Calhoun, KY 9114 even when you can’t be together. Become a partner today! Contact your local sales consultant or at 800-827-5151 A new revenue stream for funeral homes. ...every story deserves personalized stationery and keepsakes No matter where your families gather... This information is for the embalmer who wishes to better understand how Pas- cal’s Law applies to what we do as special- ist operating technicians. So to credit, we must honor and respect the prerequisite knowledge so freely available offered by French mathematician Blaise Pascal. In no way is the title intended to disrespect or dishonor any of his work, but instead to give the honor back to him by way of fully understanding his concept. Before you decide this article is not for you, please respect the hydraulic system in a motor vehicle is as much a science as is what we do in the embalming room. As the rod moves through the master cylinder, fluid is displaced. While fluid has no abil- ity to escape, the force which is being ap- Pascal’s Flaw & The Rascal’s Law Excerpted from “Rascal’s Law” 2/2/2020 By J. M. Bernaudo, CFSP 68’ Military-Sorensen The-Psycho-Billy-Tesla-Caosson-Sorensen A misrepresentation of this information is damaging an already crippled industry that will no longer exist or be relevant at the current trajectory. What is most important is that we understand it; that we prioritize data surrounding this. As fluid pressure builds within the vessels of the body or as fluid meets resistance, fluid carries the mes- sage of force. When this force rises high, swelling or oversaturation of tissue occurs. Smaller arteries, having less strength, will burst before larger arteries and can present another point of relief either directly into the tissue, causing swelling, or out of the body, discouraging filtration of tissue. It is to the benefit of the embalmer to fully un- derstand the concepts of pressure, flow, and relief to manipulate the disproportionate saturation of the body during arterial em- balming. An embalmer makes an informed decision of which chemicals to preserve and disinfect. Can they not also choose the most appropriate injection and drainage site to promote the most satisfactory result? There are various devices available to the embalmer to introduce fluid within the vessels of the human body. None of which should be regarded as insufficient so much as the centrifugal pump embalming ma- chines, which manipulate pump force and flow by relief back to the tank. This con- dition of fluid travel, not only invalidates the measurement of pressure on the em- balming machine, but also offers a path of lesser resistance against adversity within the body. This in turn increases the num- ber of cases having large disproportionate saturation and multipoint injections. On the contrary the hand pump itself, though simple, offers no relief and is a great ad- vantage to an embalmer trying to saturate a poorly saturated area, avoiding an other- wise troubling, time-consuming process. Try it sometime and see for yourself. Sadly, the embalming profession has truly lost its plied by your foot is now evenly distribut- ed throughout the brake line system. Fluid sends the message of force, or energy. The result is that the car comes to a stop. Let’s break it down for those who follow phys- ics. First, force creates flow. Next, flow no longer has space to go. Last, the fluid car- ries the message of the force being applied in accordance with Pascal’s law. Now before we accept this as truth in what we do as embalming technicians, we must make a strong enough case that the human vascular system is enough like that of the hydraulic system described above. That fact is, at least from a scien- tific standpoint, that the human vascu- lar system is vastly different from that of a hydraulic plumbing system. The most significant detail might be that the ves- sels of the human body are also meant to pass fluid from its space. Detailed exami- nation of the capillaries support that the passage of fluid from artery to vein is done through a venturi. For those that are fol- lowing from a physics standpoint, high- er pressure is held within the arteries, and lower pressure, as fluid, is returned via the venous system. Please consider our afore- mentioned brake system once again. This time, imagine that someone has managed to cut the brake line near one of the wheel cylinders. But this time, rather than fill- ing the space and sending a message of force, the fluid will con- tinue to travel. How will this affect the driver’s abil- ity to stop? Fluid will not carry the message of force necessary to activate the brake shoes into the wheel drums and stop the car. Is it fair to say that a pressure system having an incalcu- lable number of points of relief will disproportion- ately distribute force with- in its space according to what we will call the Ras- cal’s law? Would you call a vessel with an incalculable number of points of relief an artery? way. Why do we not hold embalmers in a higher regard than the mechanics or the en- gineers responsible for the hydraulic drum brake system being responsible for whether a driver is able to stop the motor vehicle or not. Do the sentiments of life and death, as well as the sciences, not equally apply to us? Life or death situations are the circumstances that can make or break. Unfortunately, the Continued on Page A18