embalm

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Before the 90-day waiting period is over, mortuaries are not allowed to embalm or cremate people without authorization from their next of kin, so the cooler is the only way to keep remains preserved.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2024

It is used to embalm dead bodies and to make perfume, incense and medicine.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2023

Cremation, for example, is an energy-intense process that produces carbon dioxide emissions, while traditional burial uses chemicals to embalm bodies and a nonbiodegradable coffin to store them.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2022

“I had no desire to embalm or freeze artists who were still alive and making work.”

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2022

It caused Claudia to want to embalm Jamie in a vat of mummy fluid right that minute.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg