Cary Watkins confirms embalmer Richard Hirschman's story about the telltale blood clots

They’re not after their 15 minutes of fame on rumble and substack.

This is so ridiculous. The “blood clot” he shows and describes “the length of the entire leg” in the rumble video is obviously a postmortem “chicken fat clot”.

Blood clots cannot form in the same way after death as they do before death. Blood clots formed in a living person adhere to the vessel walls, and are qualitatively and visibly different from postmortem “clots”. After death, blood usually, but not always, begins to coagulate after a few hours and remains so for about two days, then breaks down and liquifies. The “clots” that form after death are not stuck to the blood vessel walls (as antemortem clots are) — that’s why he was able to remove the “clot” shown in the video as he did.

About postmortem “chicken fat clots”:

“A slowly formed postmortem blood clot, composed mainly of white blood cells that settle to dependent parts of the vasculature. Chicken fat clots are yellow, rubbery, and don’t adhere to vessel walls; the cells seen in such clots are heterogeneous with abundant neutrophils, few RBCs and fibrin. They may occur in fulminant bacterial endocarditis.
(Segen’s Medical Dictionary)

https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/chicken+fat+clot

“A postmortem clot (E-Fig. 1-5) can be distinguished from an antemortem thrombus by its smooth shiny surface and lack of lamination or attachment to the endothelial surface of the vessel. However, depending on the erythrocyte sedimentation rate, a postmortem clot can organize within a vessel just as within a test tube, with erythrocytes at the bottom separated by a “buffy coat” of leukocytes from the serum at the top. The resemblance of clotted serum to avian adipose tissue has garnered the name of “chicken fat clot” for this postmortem clot that is often seen in horses because of their high erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Inflammation can accelerate the sedimentation rate. Anticoagulants or hereditary coagulopathies can delay or prevent postmortem clotting of blood.”
Link:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-professions/livor-mortis

Also here:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18243759/

Of course those who want to believe this guy and Steve Kirsch will believe it anyway.

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