ROME – With the passing of Pope John Paul II (search), a Rome family expected a call from the Vatican to embalm his body. The tradition, carried down from father to son, has for decades fallen to the ...

After 25 years of—forgive us—obscurity, Embalm’s remastered classic Prelude To Obscurity is being re-released by 20 Buck Spin. The record was re-released by Arthur Rizk and will officially be ...

Vietnam's communist government has formed a special council to assess the state of its most sacred icon: the corpse -- first embalmed by Soviet chemists and other forensic specialists a half-century ...

A Philippine mortician famous for putting dead dictator Ferdinand Marcos into a glass display case offered his services Friday to the deceased Hugo Chavez, whom Venezuela wants embalmed "like Lenin" ...

New chemical analysis of iron age skulls confirms the grisly practice, referred to in ancient texts They were fearsome warriors who cut off the heads of their enemies and displayed them for all to see ...

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I wish to suggest to the director of legal medicine/government pathologist and the police, that the present situation regarding on-the-spot post-mortem of decomposed bodies and the storage of ...

MANILA, Philippines—The mortician famous for putting dead dictator Ferdinand Marcos into a glass display case offered his services Friday to the deceased Hugo Chavez, whom Venezuela wants embalmed ...