If you died 200 years ago in America, your family would wash and dress your body and place it in a bed surrounded by candles to dampen the smell of decomposition. Your immediate family and friends ...
What is now Mount Mercy University's Rinderknecht Administrative Building, at 909 17th St. NE, was once one of the quietest places on Earth, literally. The Turner Co. was there from 1936 to 1977, ...
Two funeral parlors in Taipei have for years been discharging embalming wastewater directly into sewers without any processing, a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City councilor said yesterday, ...
Of the 650,000 soldiers killed during the Civil War, only 40,000 received embalming fluid. Money and the condition of the body determined whether a soldier would be embalmed, said James Lowry, a ...