Just binged the thread, excellent content so far.
I noticed Spaulding Decon in the OP, boy howdy, I haven’t thought about them in a while. I remember first stumbling upon that rabbit hole a few years back. I’m not really sure why they came up in my recommendations, but (minor PL) I am good friends with a former funeral director, and I was almost hired as a mortuary apprentice in my gap year at uni, so I have a passing interest in this morbidity. I remember feeling that, while the actual clean-up was professionally done, the videos were exceptionally exploitative. For example, you had them constantly pointing out and holding up scalps and skin slippage like trophies, playing with maggots (getting them to race each other), riffling through the deceased person’s belongings…The latter of which got them in hot water recently, as their cleaners where showing off a dead person’s sex toy collection to the camera for giggles. They issued an apology statement, but having watched their channel off and on for years, I can attest that it wasn’t the first time. It always struck me as particularly disturbing with the suicides and/or unattended deaths of the elderly. There was something uniquely sad about someone dying old and alone, or by your own hand in bed holding a childhood teddy, only to melt into the floor, because you had no one but a landlord to check in on you. Then these goofs show up to film it all for YouTube clout.
The only good I saw was the suicidal people in the comments section saying that it was discouraging to them.