Shabaz Ali

Sewing back up was always fun.

I used to practice on chickens.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Or like take the stuff out, weigh them, test stuff, do all that, yeah.

Was it... Were you scared when you first saw your first dead body?

I'm not very squeamish.

Things like that don't bother me.

I think more so than anything, like I really appreciated...

like how good the guy the man I worked with was one of the best people I've ever worked with like he just was so respectful of dead bodies like he was like this is someone's loved one yeah and and it was where the next step in their in their journey through life and death like it was there's something the way he spoke about it was just stunning like he just it made me really appreciate that

When you lose a loved one, you want to know that they've been handled.

Absolutely.

And I know that the person, especially the lab I worked in and the man I worked for, he was incredible.

The doctor I worked with, he was incredible in the way he handled the bodies and the way he spoke about people and the way he...

dealt with it just made me appreciate human beings and appreciate life as well so I think that's probably the reason why I stayed so long I think initially it was just like I was 18 years old I was like fascination I was like this is crazy what a job you know what I mean but it became it became a sort of

like a you know felt rewarding in a way and also it's it's fantastic it's brilliant imagine dead but when you're going to see a dead person in front of you when are you ever going to see guts and hearts and lungs and all that hopefully never this is it like you never human beings we're not ever going to be able to see that it was great

I just, it fell into it.

I was, I was scrolling on Instagram and I saw that they were saying that, you know, you can become a teacher.

And I thought, yeah, okay.

They were offering 30 grand for it.