Word: embalming
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...Carbon 14 analysis dated the human rib contained in the relics to between the 7th and 3rd centuries B.C. Pollen testing also found traces of pine - a tree that didn't exist in medieval Normandy but whose resin was widely used to embalm bodies in ancient Egypt. The presence of the cat bones might have added weight to the relics' authenticity, as black cats were traditionally thrown on the fires that burned those accused of witchcraft in medieval times. DNA tests revealed however that the animal was of non-European origin...
Even in death the AIDS victim is shunned. In St. Louis and New York, undertakers have refused to embalm the remains of patients. In Los Angeles, a funeral parlor was asked to handle the body of three-year-old Sammy Kushnick, who had died from AIDS contracted through a blood transfusion. Until a rabbi intervened, they refused to dress the boy in the clothes and prayer shawl his parents had selected for his burial...
...prepare corpses for air travel, per Kurt L. Chauviere ’04: “You strap them in a box, embalm them, put in a couple of pillows—it’s just like putting someone to bed.” (“I Paint Dead People,” October...
...over some of the everyday tasks of his position. For one thing, there were the frequent trips to the airport. “So, you know, you have to prepare your corpse for air travel,” he says. “You strap them in a box, embalm them, put in a couple of pillows—it’s just like putting someone to bed.” For shorter distances, Chauvière hits the open road without the nuisance of nagging back-seat drivers—his passengers are among the most subdued around...
...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...