How the Titanic Disaster Forced the Funeral Industry to Change Forever

Most people know the Titanic sank, but almost nobody knows what happened to the bodies afterward. A single cable-repair ship was sent out with enough embalming fluid for seventy people and came back with 306. Whether a passenger was embalmed and coffined or buried at sea came down to one thing: what class ticket they were holding when the ship went down. In this video, we trace the recovery operation that quietly rewrote the rules of the funeral industry, and built the identification system still used in mass-casualty disasters today. #Titanic #TitanicHistory #FuneralIndustry #DisasterHistory