These can include transporting the remains, embalming the body and the casket or cremation process.
They pump trillions of dollars of fresh credit into insolvent banks like embalming fluid into a corpse.
Instruments used in Elvis Presley's autopsy and embalming are to go up for auction in Chicago next month.
Instruments said to have been used during Elvis Presley's post mortem and embalming have been withdrawn from auction.
Mr Smith smiled, but looking all the while as though he'd just had a gulp of embalming fluid.
There are no jade suits, no embalming, no wire-metal encasements as are found at other times and places.
The iodine tang of kelp hung in the air always, and put me in mind of embalming fluid.
At its worst, the spirit tastes a little like embalming fluid, or at least how I imagine embalming fluid to taste.
In some countries, for example the Philippines and the United States, embalming ahead of open-casket funerals is now quite common.
Mr Maduro, who is running for president in the 14 April elections, commented on the deceased leader's embalming during a speech.
Although the ancient Egyptians were well-known for their mummification practices, other cultures also used special embalming procedures to preserve their dead.
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The Federal Reserve should ditch its embalming fluid and buy cement instead.
Motivated by a desire to leave an environmentally sound legacy, more people are choosing to forgo embalming, bulky coffins, cement vaults and monuments.
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It grows by acquiring funeral homes and combining them in "clusters" that can save money by sharing services such as hearses and embalming.
They're young, good-looking women in black and white uniforms, who help funeral directors with embalming and memorial services, and they've brought Liu a lot of attention.
They included such gems as an embalming that had gone wrong, fouling the air for the mourners lined up to see the pope lying in state.
World leaders aside, Arnold believes embalming is an overlooked and undervalued art that helps regular people if someone dies far from home or must be laid to rest after a delay.
"The Union Army had 'Embalming Surgeons' in the battlefield that would prepare the remains, place them in a coffin and send back to the family by train or horse and buggy, " the society's website says.
The cosmetics used in embalming have higher levels of pigment and silicone, he explained, so that when the body is moved in and out of cold storage the cosmetics will expand and contract with the tissue beneath without cracking.
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