AUSTIN, Texas — Several Austin-area funeral home embalmers say it's common practice to pour human blood from corpses down the drain, a procedure that Austin Water officials admit they were unaware was ...

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It is thought a range of chemicals were used to embalm and preserve the bodies of the dead in ancient cultures. Russian scientists believe a different balm was used to preserve hair fashions of the ...

MOSCOW, Russia – It’s a process described as “not a pretty sight” that involves the extraction of all the blood from a corpse. But if late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is to be embalmed, then ...

Venezeula has decided not to embalm the body of its late president, Hugo Chavez, Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said on Friday in a Twitter message. The initial plan was to have Chavez’s ...

The plan to embalm the body of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may have hit a snag. Scientists in a preliminary assessment have determined that the process might be “quite difficult,” acting ...

Timesha Beauchamp's family has hired an attorney after she was wrongly declared dead and opened her eyes at a funeral home. The mother of Timesha Beauchamp, the 20-year-old Michigan woman wrongly ...

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 ...

Several Austin-area funeral home embalmers say it's common practice to pour human blood from corpses down the drain, a procedure that Austin Water officials admit they were unaware was occurring and ...