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Instead it’s a tender ballad in which the schoolmistressy secretary Hester Leggatt sings an imagined love letter to be planted on a corpse to add verisimilitude to the dead man’s manufactured life story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

But when Henry Clayton’s Armani-clad corpse washes up on the beach, one person is certain he didn’t take his own life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

North Hollywood resident Lilla Saito took two hours off work to witness the corpse flowers for the first time and tracked the livestream every day, “just waiting for it to bloom.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

In Operation Mincemeat, the British planted a corpse with fake top-secret documents implying an Allied invasion of Greece and Sardinia to provide cover for their Sicily campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

She looked like a corpse wreathed in smoke, but she felt solid enough when she gripped his arms.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Some unpaid health workers are violating safety protocols by allowing grieving families to touch highly infectious corpses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Khanal also called for forensic testing kits to identify corpses and freezer units to store them, saying bodies that have been in water could decompose at a faster rate.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Authorities have been forced to store corpses at a temporary holding centre -- the air-conditioned offices of the district commerce association.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

Sometimes known as "Doctor Death", he became famous for developing a technique called plastination, by which fluids and fatty tissue in corpses are replaced by rubber and polymers.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

She and the dog sprawled like corpses, their limbs arranged in an eternal embrace.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris