Mortuary Science

University or forensic school.

A mortuary is a place where bodies are kept. In the older days mortuaries were not really funeral homes but places where a person who has just been pronounced dead is kept for a few days to make sure that the person died. Today this is not necessary, but today's term for a mortuary is basically a funeral home. But one big difference is that a funeral home was often equipped with an upstairs apartment that a family would move into, in order to be with the remains located downstairs, until the funeral services were completed. A mortuary was simply one that was absent such an apartment.

I've heard they can fall open because of gravity that's why mortitions sew them shut.

When a person dies, all of their muscles relax. If the eyes are open at the moment of death, they will usually stay that way. Also, if someone had their eyes closed at the moment of death, they will tend to open a short time later due to the relaxation of the muscles that open and close the eyes. This isn't always the case, but for the majority of people, the eyes will be open. Morticians do not sew the eyes shut. The old fashioned way was to take some cotton and place it under the eyelids. This kept them shut and gave them shape, as the eyes tend to sink back into the sockets after death. The current method of keeping the eyes closed is to use what are called eye caps. They have little grippers on one side, and are smooth on the other. The grippers keep the lids closed.

A Mortuary Technician is somone who assists the Medical Examiner during an Autopsy procedure.