One of them is of a bottle of embalming fluid.
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You make an incision, and you inject it with embalming fluid.
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Three weeks later, she was dead after being poisoned with embalming fluid.
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Sophisticated testing could distinguish drugs and chemicals from those in embalming fluid.
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The basic idea is that you inject the arterial system with embalming fluid.
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In the US alone, more than 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid are buried every year.
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The embalming fluid that we use is a conglomeration of a bunch of different things.
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It's just the basic displacement of the arterial systems, so you're injecting embalming fluid and removing blood.
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Freezine contained formaldehyde, an ingredient in embalming fluid, that was toxic and commonly mixed with rancid milk.
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The suit also comes with an environmentally-friendly embalming fluid and a mineral applicant made of mushroom spores.
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Black stitches ran along the base of his neck where the embalming fluid had been injected into his arteries.
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The injection pushes out the blood and pushes in the embalming fluid, distributing it throughout the body via the arteries.
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"At the time I didn't know what happened, but I had an allergic reaction to the embalming fluid," Fowles said.
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As I mentioned before, the embalming fluid is a conglomeration of different things, and one of them is a coloring agent.
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So, the part of the skin that is receiving the embalming fluid changes color, and that's how you know it's working.
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Similarly, America uses 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid annually, which is traditionally used to preserve a body rather than allow it to decay.
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The European Union forbids it for use in cosmetics, as does Canada; it also works nicely as a component in industrial-strength paint strippers and embalming fluid.
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A Pennsylvanian man apparently trying to whip up some homemade Spice was busted getting high off embalming fluid from a stolen human brain, the Morning Call reports.
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The arterial fluid we use at our funeral home is about 43 percent formaldehyde, and we mix that in with water and that together creates the embalming fluid.
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Burial, which is the most popular choice for Americans, usually involves the use of a casket, which pulls from the earth's wood and mineral resources, and uses toxic embalming fluid.
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A huge amount of materials—from embalming fluid, to wood, to metal—are used to put on a traditional funeral, and burials take up a whole lot of space in cemeteries.
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The medical school does its preservation process, and it&aposs a different embalming process than for a viewing for a regular funeral; they use a different embalming fluid and different amount.
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Every year in the U.S., all of that amounts to millions of feet of hardwood, over 100,000 tons of steel, and more than 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid heading straight into the ground.
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Frazier was mired in a slump, and since his new roommates were thriving at the plate, he figured living among the bottles of embalming fluid and caskets might prove to be a talisman.
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The results are often fascinating — Young M.A. reveals that she randomly smells embalming fluid that reminds her of her murdered brother, and Corey Taylor of Slipknot details childhood sexual abuse and drug addiction.
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After Clark was found, Bennett allegedly told detectives she'd smoked the street drug "love boat" — marijuana that has been soaked in embalming fluid or PCP or both — with him the night before his death.
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In fall 833, he testified about the distressing state of his mother's corpse: face and body distorted by embalming fluid; lips crudely stitched together; legs spattered with blood; a large wound on her neck.
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Each year, more than 30 million board feet of wood, 1.6 million tons of concrete, 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid, and 90,43 tons of steel are used for underground burials in the United States alone.
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And when that diet causes me to die of scurvy at the age of 40, fill my veins with gingerbread-flavored embalming fluid and lower me into the ground in a candy cane-colored coffin.
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The modern act of embalming, popularized during the American Civil War, is a physically violent one in which blood goes down the drain, untreated, after being pushed out by embalming fluid pumped through the vascular system.
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The duties of an embalmer often involve removing blood or other contaminants from the surface of the body, injecting the body with embalming fluid, disguising any damage, and applying makeup to create a more pleasing appearance.
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The bodies were driven from the city morgue in Queens to the school's Midtown Manhattan classrooms in the morning and returned the same evening after students practiced incisions, drainage of bodily fluids and injection of embalming fluid.
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"If you decide to give the headship to Charles then you are talking another 10 or 20 years of a kind of embalming fluid," said Philip Murphy, professor of British and Commonwealth history at the School of Advanced Study.
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In 1983, Mr. Boetticher started working for S.C.I. and eventually moved to the company's headquarters in Houston, where, among other jobs, he managed the development of a new embalming fluid and became president of S.C.I.'s museum of funeral history.
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Next, he cuts into the base of the throat, near the clavicle, to reach a carotid artery and inserts a small tube through which a machine that looks like an oversize blender pumps several gallons of embalming fluid into the body.
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"I went into stores and did everything from inventing new dances to standing on my head and pulling out my pecker trying to make them understand pickling spice and they dragged out everything from tomato paste to embalming fluid — everything and anything except pickling spice," Ellison wrote.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In A Mortician's Tale, out now from the Toronto-based Laundry Bear Games, eyes must be outfitted with spiky eye caps and glued shut, limbs must be massaged to allow embalming fluid to flow, and bones must be ground to ash in the cremulator.
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A commonly held misconception is that phencyclidine (PCP, angel dust) is the same as (or is synthesized from) embalming fluid. Some people, believing this myth, have actually attempted to smoke cigarettes or cannabis dipped in real embalming fluid (i.e. formaldehyde), which is highly toxic. Conversely, some users of PCP-laced cannabis believe (and are often told) that it contains embalming fluid proper and not PCP, or that the slang term "dust" really means embalming fluid proper.
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Tank containing embalming fluid Embalming fluid is injected into the arterial system of the deceased. Many other bodily fluids may also be displaced and removed from the body using the arterial system and in the case of cavity treatment aspirated from the body and replaced with a specialty fluid known as cavity fluid.
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She used a clip of Kyle saying "Up yours, Tina Yothers" from the episode as an introductory sound clip to introduce her band's shows. Kenny is turned into a zombie after a mortician accidentally knocks Worcestershire sauce, a fermented liquid condiment, into his embalming fluid. Parker and Stone originally planned to have a Dr Pepper fall into the embalming fluid (in a belated response to that product's slogan "Dr Pepper, What's the Worst That Could Happen?"), but it was changed after the soft drink company objected to that use of their product.
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Embalming chemicals are a variety of preservatives, sanitizers, disinfectant agents, and additives used in modern embalming to temporarily delay decomposition and restore a natural appearance for viewing a body after death. A mixture of these chemicals is known as embalming fluid, and is used to preserve deceased individuals, sometimes only until the funeral, other times indefinitely. Typical embalming fluid contains a mixture of formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, methanol, humectants and wetting agents, and other solvents that can be used. The formaldehyde content generally ranges from 5-35%, and the methanol content may range from 9-56%.
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Embalming fluid acts to fix (denature) cellular proteins, meaning that they cannot act as a nutrient source for bacteria; embalming fluid also kills the bacteria themselves. Formaldehyde or glutaraldehyde fixes tissue or cells by irreversibly connecting a primary amine group in a protein molecule with a nearby nitrogen in a protein or DNA molecule through a -CH2\- linkage called a Schiff base. The end result also creates the simulation, via color changes, of the appearance of blood flowing under the skin. Modern embalming is not done with a single fixative.
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A natural burial grave site. The existing landscape is modified as little as possible. Only flat stone markers are allowed. The body may be prepared without chemical preservatives or disinfectants such as embalming fluid, which might destroy the microbial decomposers that break the body down.
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Various early 20th Century embalming fluids Embalming chemicals are a variety of preservatives, sanitising and disinfectant agents, and additives used in modern embalming to temporarily prevent decomposition and restore a natural appearance for viewing a body after death. A mixture of these chemicals is known as embalming fluid and is used to preserve bodies of deceased persons for both funeral purposes and in medical research in anatomical laboratories. The period for which a body is embalmed is dependent on time, expertise of the embalmer and factors regarding duration of stay and purpose. Typically, embalming fluid contains a mixture of formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, methanol, and other solvents.
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Gottfried Knoche (date unknown) August Gottfried Knoche (17 March 1813, Halberstadt - 2 January 1901, near La Guaira) was a German doctor and surgeon. He is best known for inventing an embalming fluid that was used to mummify dozens of corpses (including his own) at his laboratory in Venezuela.
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Sometimes, the two substances are even mixed together, in a further ostension of this legend.Illegal drug users dip into embalming fluid By Douglass Dowty / The Post-Standard August 3, 2009 The combination might be called "fry," "wet," "illy," "sherm," "worm," "water-water," "amp," "dust(ed)," or other names.
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On March 25, 1890, Owen died from accidental poisoning. A local grocer had mistakenly sent a bottle of embalming fluid labeled "medicated water" to Owen's neighbor. Thinking it was mineral water, Owen and his neighbor drank a small quantity, which was enough to cause Owen's death.Albjerg, p. 101.
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Embalming is the process of preserving human remains by delaying decomposition. This is acquired through the use of embalming fluid, which is a mixture of formaldehyde, methanol, and various other solvents. The most common reasons to briefly preserve the body are for viewing purposes at a funeral and for medical or religious practices.
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The formaldehyde content generally ranges from 5 to 37 percent and the methanol content may range from 9 to 56 percent. In the United States alone, about 20 million liters (roughly 5.3 million gallons) of embalming fluid are used every year.Sehee, Joe (2007). Green Burial: It's Only Natural, PERC Reports, Winter 2007.
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Every song on Waterworld is about the drug PCP. Street names for PCP like "water," "wet," "leak," "fry", "sherm," "dip," "death," "angel dust," "dust," "purple rain," "embalming fluid," and "formaldehyde" are all constantly referenced throughout the album. Cage and Tame One frequently mention "dipping" cigarettes, blunts and other smoking material in PCP.
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In one infamous deal in 1893, he delivered 22Some sources say 20, other say 24. men who had mistakenly consumed embalming fluid from the open cellar of a mortuary. He sold all the men, most of whom were dead, to a captain who sailed before the truth was discovered. He got $52 for each man.
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The drink is sometimes adulterated by adding substances like jet fuel, embalming fluid or battery acid, which has the effect of giving the beverage more 'kick'. Drinkers have suffered blindness or death due to methanol poisoning. The water used to make the drink in illegal breweries is also often below acceptable health standards and sometimes contaminated with sewage.
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She tracks down Mr. Slump to seek the advice of the Guru Brahmin and finds him, via telephone, in a bar after he has been fired. Slump tells her to jump off a building. She commits suicide by injecting herself with embalming fluid in Joyboy's workroom at Whispering Glades. Joyboy discovers Thanatogenos' body and seeks assistance from Barlow.
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Later, a bound and gagged Lisa is discovered by Kenneth's landlord, and Kenneth bludgeons him with a hammer. Kenneth then begins to transform Lisa into the doll. He dresses her up in Nikki's clothes, straps her down, and begins to replace her blood with embalming fluid. Lisa manages to escape from her restraints and attacks Kenneth with a small statue, rendering him unconscious.
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Some time after West's killing of the reanimated boxer, the narrator returns home from vacation to discover the perfectly preserved corpse of a man in the home he shares with West. West explains that during the narrator's absence, he perfected a type of embalming fluid that perfectly preserves a corpse as it is the moment the chemical is injected into the bloodstream; injected at the precise moment of death, the chemical prevents decomposition from even beginning. West reveals to the narrator that the dead man is a traveling salesman who had a heart attack during a physical examination; as the man died before West's eyes, he was able to preserve it with the embalming fluid and has been waiting for the narrator to return so that the two of them can reanimate the body together. West injects the body with his latest serum.
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It prevents the growth of mold in its liquefied form. Its disinfectant qualities rely on its ability to denature proteins and dismantle cell walls, but this unfortunately has the added side effect of drying tissues and occasionally results in a degree of discoloration. Methanol is an additive with disinfectant properties. It helps regulate the osmotic balance of the embalming fluid, and it is a decent antirefrigerant.
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Collection of spiders preserved in alcohol (spirit collection) "Wet" specimen collections are stored in different solutions. A very old method is to store the specimen in 70% ethanol with various additives after fixing with formalinBLUM, J.: Formol als Conservierungsflüssigkeit. Zool. Anz. 16, 1893, Page 450-452 or in these days sometimes with a salt- solution.COLEMAN, R. / KOGAN, I.: An improved low-formaldehyde embalming fluid to preserve cadavers for anatomy teaching.
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On August 29, 1994, widow Marian Washington filed suit against funeral home, John T. Rhines Co., for improperly embalming her late husband Vernon W. Washington. She claimed that the embalming fluid was leaking and that her husband's skin was decomposing at an alarming rate. John T. Rhines Co. re-embalmed Mr. Washington in efforts to make his body presentable. However, they failed to restore Mr. Washington's body completely.
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757 Cabaniss' body was ordered to be embalmed but was not; the damage to his body was so severe that the embalming fluid would leak out. His body was buried in Kobe on February 24 with military honors. The entire crew of the Swatara attended, as well as the entire crew of HMS Flying Fish and many noted Japanese citizens. Ensign Parker reportedly suffered from depression following the accident.
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Convinced that he has accomplished his vendetta, Phibes retreats to the basement to inter himself in a stone sarcophagus containing the embalmed body of his wife. He drains his blood, replacing it with embalming fluid, and the coffin's inlaid stone lid slides into place, completely concealing it. Trout and the police arrive and realise that Phibes is nowhere to be found. They recall that the "final curse" was darkness.
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As a result of the transfusion of an unknown embalming fluid by the Egyptian high priest Nephrus, N'Kantu has superhuman strength and durability. He is highly resistant to many forms of attack. Although his skin is almost rock-hard in consistency, his wrappings are extremely vulnerable to fire. His blood has been replaced with an alchemical preservative that has allowed him to exist for over three thousand years.
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The apparition smells embalming fluid, which prompts Alan to remember a phrase that he had read in a book: "the dead travel fast". Alan does not inform George that he knows that George is dead. George asks him about Thrill Village and asks if he rode "The Bullet", and Alan lies and said that he did go on the ride. George knows that Alan is lying, and he calls Alan by his name.
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Mortimer first appeared in #1 of Volume II seeking revenge on Lenore, after her unexpectedly coming back to life during him embalming her created a dramatic change to his life, losing his family and his business. Mortimer was sprayed with embalming fluid which caused him to become immortal, however he had re-built himself to finally take Lenore and finish his job of embalming her. His demise is met when Ragamuffin rescues Lenore.
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The process of closing the mouth and eyes, shaving, etc. is collectively known as setting the features. Features may also be set after the completion of the arterial embalming process, which allows the embalmer to clean and remove any purge that occurs during the embalming process. Tank containing embalming fluid The actual embalming process usually involves four parts: #Arterial embalming, which involves the injection of embalming chemicals into the blood vessels, usually via the right common carotid artery.
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In Israel, Jews are buried without a casket, in just the shroud. Islamic law instructs that the deceased be washed and buried with only a wrapping of white cloth to preserve dignity. The cloth is sometimes perfumed, but as in natural burial, no chemical preservatives or embalming fluid are used, nor is there a burial vault, coffin or casket. There is no legal requirements for using a coffin in the UK and a body can be buried in a cloth if desired.
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The Glass House sits upon solid rock overlooking Kootenay Lake and is constructed of approximately 500,000 empty embalming fluid bottles, which would have otherwise been discarded as waste. Built with a single layer of bottles laid with the short neck towards the inside, strips of wood were wired between the necks and reinforced with cement. The strips of wood then support the inner walls formed of cedar boards. Glass house lookout The main house is built like a three-leaf clover with the main rooms being circular.
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The boys are waiting for the school bus as usual when the Mir Space Station lands and kills Kenny whose body is then taken to the local morgue. One of the men at the morgue accidentally leaves a bottle of Worcestershire sauce open and its contents mix with the embalming fluid, turning Kenny into a zombie. Kenny bites the two men and leaves in the middle of the night. The next day Kenny rejoins his friends, who are dressed up for a Halloween costume contest.
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In late 19th-century Venezuela, a German-born doctor named Gottfried Knoche conducted experiments in mummification at his laboratory in the forest near La Guaira. He developed an embalming fluid (based on an aluminum chloride compound) that mummified corpses without having to remove the internal organs. The formula for his fluid was never revealed and has not been discovered. Most of the several dozen mummies created with the fluid (including himself and his immediate family) have been lost or were severely damaged by vandals and looters.
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Mary (Toni Collette) goes to the University of Melbourne and has her birthmark surgically removed, and develops a crush on her Greek Australian neighbour, Damien Popodopoulos (Eric Bana). Drunk and guilt-ridden over her husband's death, Vera accidentally kills herself after she drinks embalming fluid (which she mistook for cooking sherry). Mary and Damien grow closer following Vera's death and are later married. Inspired by her friendship with Max, Mary studies psychology at university, writing her doctoral dissertation on Asperger syndrome with Max as her test subject.
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Soon after, Gabe overdoses and Claire tries to help him recover. However, he gets into more trouble; holding up a convenience store, stealing the Fishers' embalming fluid to use for extra-potent joints, and pulling a gun on another driver while Claire is trying to drive him to a secluded area. After that, Claire breaks off ties with him. Later, she receives closure from a fantasy scene showing she believes Gabe has died and is at peace in death and able to see his younger brother, Anthony.
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A prime example of this theme is The Host by director Bong Joon Ho. His blockbuster movie was inspired by a real life case where a mortician employed by the US Air Force ordered to dump toxic embalming fluid down the drain. This drain led to the Han River which caused a controversy. Cho Jin Hee explains that in the film The Host, there are inferences and allusions to the US presence in South Korea. The film even begins with a scene similar to the actual case.
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To Dero's disappointment, when the female monster is brought to life and sees Dero she screams in horror and faints into the male monster's arms; when she see him she falls in love with the male monster who was feeling the same way even before she came to life, and commands him to kill their creators (the full band). The monster chokes Dero (and maybe Flux and Crap) to death and takes his brain and those of the other band members in three beakers full of embalming fluid and the two monsters leave the lab.
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As Sam finishes her story, she takes a tooth from Logan's remains, having not had the chance to do so when she killed him. She then stabs Montgomery in the stomach to tie up loose ends; however, Montgomery - who appears to bleed embalming fluid - simply laughs. Sam attempts to escape the mortuary, but finds herself unable to do so via a supernatural force. Montgomery corners her in the mortuary library and explains to her that he was never able to leave, and that her story is "only just beginning".
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The charred spirits of Sam's child victims crawl out of the books in the library and tear her apart. Montgomery sews Sam's body back together and replaces her blood with embalming fluid, then finds himself able to leave the mortuary for the first time. However, after a moment in the sunlight, he explodes into dust. Sam's body reanimates inside the mortuary, and a final scene shows that she has now become the new mortician, as she tells a child earlier seen delivering newspapers that she hopes he will stay for dinner.
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Some thought the whale was healthy but others thought it was slowly dying and needed to be humanely put down. Ed Lessard, a former whaler, and his son Joseph Lessard set out with harpoons and killed the whale, who had gained the name Ethelbert. The body of the whale was retrieved by others and pickled in embalming fluid for preservation. Ethelbert was seized by the State of Oregon and later, through many legal battles going all the way to the Supreme Court, the whale was procured by Lessard.
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Uncle Verlin returns to find the mortuary a mess and begins to yell at Archie, who by now has the zombies trapped. Verlin dismisses Archie's warnings and goes into the mortuary, where he is captured by the zombies. Instead of eating his brains, they strap Verlin onto a table and fill his body full of embalming fluid until it finally explodes, scattering his internal organs everywhere. Eventually, Archie escapes, but the zombies are hot on his trail, stopping to beat up and kill two cops that were on patrol.
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However, an independent researcher, Marianne Luban, had previously suggested that the KV35 Younger Lady could be Nefertiti in an online article, "Do We Have the Mummy of Nefertiti?" published in 1999. The team claimed that the mummy they examined was damaged in a way suggesting the body had been deliberately desecrated in antiquity. Mummification techniques, such as the use of embalming fluid and the presence of an intact brain, suggested an eighteenth-dynasty royal mummy. Other elements which the team used to support their theory were the age of the body, the presence of embedded nefer beads, and a wig of a rare style worn by Nefertiti.
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A drop of Lenore's blood eventually returned him to consciousness, but since her blood was mixed with embalming fluid the curse was only partially lifted: he will never cease to be a doll. (He was briefly reverted into his original body at the end of issue #11, but returned to his rag doll form in the last frame of issue #12). Ragamuffin is a little unsure of some of Lenore's crazier ideas and is oddly enough the occasional voice of reason in the comic. Still, as shown in the later comics, Ragamuffin is loyal to Lenore, often joining her plans in the flash-animated cartoons.
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Blood and interstitial fluids are displaced by this injection and, along with excess arterial solution, are expelled from the right jugular vein and collectively referred to as drainage. The embalming solution is injected with a centrifugal pump, and the embalmer massages the body to break up circulatory clots so as to ensure the proper distribution of the embalming fluid. This process of raising vessels with injection and drainage from a solitary location is known as a single-point injection. In cases of poor circulation of the arterial solution, additional injection points (commonly the axillary, brachial, or femoral arteries, with the ulnar, radial, and tibial vessels if necessary) are used.
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Anatomical embalming is performed into a closed circulatory system. The fluid is usually injected with an embalming machine into an artery under high pressure and flow, and allowed to swell and saturate the tissues. After the deceased is left to sit for a number of hours, the venous system is generally opened and the fluid allowed to drain out, although many anatomical embalmers do not use any drainage technique. Anatomical embalmers may choose to use gravity-feed embalming, where the container dispensing the embalming fluid is elevated above the body's level, and fluid is slowly introduced over an extended time, sometimes as long as several days.
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This method aims to return the body to the earth in the most environmentally friendly way possible. The tree pod method originated in the United Kingdom but is now becoming a more popular method of burial. The definition of natural burial grounds suggests that people are being buried without any kind of formaldehyde-based embalming fluid or synthetic ingredients, and that the bodies that are being returned to the earth will also be returning nutrients to the environment, in a way that is less expensive than other available burial methods. Not only are tree pods a more cost effective and environmentally friendly way to memorialize loved ones, this method also offers emotional support.
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One difficulty with the usefulness of this cherry-red effect is that it corrects, or masks, what would otherwise be an unhealthy appearance, since the chief effect of removing deoxygenated hemoglobin is to make an asphyxiated person appear more normal, or a dead person appear more lifelike, similar to the effect of red colorants in embalming fluid. The "false" or unphysiologic red-coloring effect in anoxic CO-poisoned tissue is related to the meat-coloring commercial use of carbon monoxide, discussed below. Carbon monoxide also binds to other molecules such as myoglobin and mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase. Exposures to carbon monoxide may cause significant damage to the heart and central nervous system, especially to the globus pallidus, often with long-term chronic pathological conditions.
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The theme of the poison dress appears in several American urban legends, which were recorded in folklore collections and journal articles in the 1940s and 1950s. Folklorist Stith Thompson noted the classical prototype in these stories, "Shirt of Nessus", and assigned Motif D1402.5, "Magic shirt burns wearer up". Jan Harold Brunvand provides the summary of one of the stories: Folklorist Ernest Baughman speculated that the story might have been used as adverse publicity to discredit a well-known store, since several variants of the story specifically mention the name of the store at which the dress was supposedly purchased. The legend continued to be told long after its initial popularity, with "embalming fluid" sometimes replacing the formaldehyde mentioned in the earlier version.
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Enough embalming fluid is buried every year to fill eight Olympic-size pools; more steel (in caskets alone) than was used to build the Golden Gate Bridge; and enough reinforced concrete to construct a two-lane highway from New York to Detroit.Sehee, Joe (2007). Green Burial, PERC Reports, Winter 2007. Retrieved on 2007-12-07. In the 1960s, a push for large companies acquiring smaller funeral homes and cemeteries occurred. Although there has been a consistent push for consolidation, the majority of the industry still consists of small, family-owned businesses. As of 2019, there are around 19,136 funeral homes that provide funeral services in the U.S. with about 89.2% of them are privately owned by families or small business owners. Experts and analysts of the industry have estimated that the top six funeral operators control 25 to 30% of all funeral services in North America, with the top four owning between 15 and 20% of all funeral homes.
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Prior to the advent of the modern range of embalming chemicals a variety of alternative additives have been used by embalmers, including epsom salts for edema cases and milk in cases of jaundice, but these are of limited effectiveness and can be chalked up as "embalmer tricks", as the validity of their use has never been demonstrated by professional embalmers or mortuary science programs. During the American Civil War, the Union Army, wanting to transport slain soldiers from the battlefields back home for burial, consulted with Dr. Thomas Holmes, who developed a technique that involved draining a corpse's blood and embalming it with a fluid made with arsenic for preservation. Embalming chemicals are generally produced by specialist manufacturers, The oldest embalming fluid company is the Champion Company, which was founded in 1878, followed by the Frigid Fluid Company in 1892, Dodge Company in 1893, with other companies include Egyptian, now U.S. Chemical, as well as Kelco Supply Company (formerly L H Kellogg), Pierce Chemical Company (now owned by The Wilbert Company), Bondol Chemical Company, and Hydrol Chemical Company. There are many smaller and regional producers as well.
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