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It can also be dangerous to embalm traditions, Burke believed, noting that “a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Funeral directors are unable to embalm or treat the deceased in their care until a death is registered.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2025

In 2020, a woman in Michigan with cerebral palsy was declared dead by paramedics but was discovered to be breathing hours later by a funeral home worker who was preparing to embalm her body.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2023

Families were no longer required to embalm their loved ones — a service that can cost anywhere from $500 to $1,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

Someone had to embalm her before Mollie saw her.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

But currently in the mortuary, Ms Walton embalms about three to four bodies a day.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2023

Zahn, owner of the Tillman Funeral Home & Crematory, embalms and buries people for a living.

From BusinessWeek ● Oct. 24, 2013

Among them is Paccione Funeral Directors in Staten Island, which embalms up to 140 bodies a month.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2011

The average funeral home embalms about 150 bodies a year, suggesting that many embalmers are not exposed to formaldehyde throughout the day.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2011

The nominalization rule takes a perfectly spry verb and embalms it into a lifeless noun by adding a suffix like -ance, -ment, -ation, or -ing.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

A biographer of Celan must decide how to come near poems that seem to resist approach, and a life that has been embalmed by its own legend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Lukashenko visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun -- where Kim's embalmed father and grandfather lie in state -- to pay his respects, flanked by top North Korean officials, the report said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

In 2012, the team said it received “problematic” documents from coroners detailing how one infant wasn’t autopsied until after its body was embalmed and how another’s death certificate didn’t match what the autopsy found.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2024

She said "they had embalmed him too late" and Mr Nightingale said: "He hadn't been embalmed until they realised the mistake."

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2024

We went into the gym, along a marble hallway, and to my surprise we went on past the Trophy Room, where his name was already inscribed on one cup, one banner, and one embalmed football.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

They grouped the compounds into four main categories connected to specific embalming ingredients.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026

The findings provide a more detailed understanding of known embalming mixtures and offer deeper insight into how these preservation techniques developed over time.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026

Eventually, the discovery of formaldehyde and the use of embalming fluids reduced the demand for cadavers, as did the growing number of people donating their bodies to science.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

"The embalming chemical, when we injected it into different main arteries, kept oozing out," Dr Bhargava writes.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2025

“Mine used to be the embalming room, I think.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson