Word: embalmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facets: staging wild parties, ingesting drugs, trekking to Mexico, ignoring combining poetry readings with jazz and writing in a new unconventional style. McDarrah's book is enlightening because it provides a range of personal perspectives on a movement that critics have so long tried to pigeonhole, embalm, or simply ignore...
Some funeral directors say that expensive coffins will prevent a body from decaying or that bodies must be in caskets before they can be cremated. The new rules forbid such misleading claims. In addition, morticians must notify customers that embalming is not legally required in most circumstances. Many funeral directors embalm routinely. In one instance a truck driver was burned beyond recognition in an Illinois crash. Nonetheless, the funeral home charged his family for embalming and cosmetology...