embalming

Bodies kept cool without embalming are not stinky, discoloured, or dangerous, or any of the other reasons a funeral home will try to push for embalming.

Save a small fortune on embalming and embalming fluid though.

Sure, food is contaminated with rocket fuel in the same way that it's contaminated with embalming fluid.

When embalming bodies for the afterlife, Ancient Egyptians discarded the brain, but preserved many other organs.

Prep methods for viewing (to keep eyes and mouth closed) can be done without embalming.

Embalming fluid is pumped through the carotid artery and it takes about an hour to remove all the blood from an average-sized person and replace it with embalming fluid so its very costly.

Not waste their money on an elaborate and expensive embalming with no hope of salvation.

If embalming became the next big industry affording millions good earnings and made millionaires out of many, you'd see the same thing.

Or do you just simply drum all the corpse f*ckers out of Embalming Service?

I mean, if you drain blood out of a body and replace it with a clear liquid (think embalming fluid), you don't end up with transparency.

In Arabic form mumiya it was used for the bituminous embalming substance.

Morticians usually run both since embalming doesn’t really support things anymore.

I don't know if this is still the case, but in the 90s, on the street "wet" marijuana, which was marijuana laced with PCP, was rumored to contain formaldehyde/embalming fluid as kind of a hype/sales tactic.

Embalming is very rare in places like continental Europe, and large swathes of the non-western world has religious bans on embalming, so formaldehyde in graveyards is almost purely a problem in the anglosphere.

Embalming practices of some cultures mystified modern science for quite a long time, iirc!