4/11/2023 0 Comments Embalming fluid![]() ![]() Cremation isn’t wonderful for the atmosphere. The most environmentally friendly form of burial is a natural burial. Embalming fluid is not environmentally friendly. In fact, at times it’s a beautiful thing.Ĭertainly, embalming isn’t necessary AT ALL to see the dead body. Erich Lindemann (grief management pioneer) says that a defining characteristic of persons dealing with complicated bereavement is that they never saw the dead body of their loved one.Īn embalmed body helps the symbol look good. ![]() It needs to be seen for reasons of grief work and for death denial confrontation. The dead body is the symbol and it’s a symbol that needs to be seen. It helps make the symbol of death look pretty. But if you live in a “First World” country, you don’t have to worry about getting buried or cremated alive. If you fear getting cremated alive or buried alive, embalming guarantees neither of those things will happen. Sure, you shouldn’t want to be all buddy-buddy with a dead body, but an unembalmed body won’t kill you. There’s an idea (possibly perpetuated by societal laws, originating back to Mosaic Law and certified in pandemics like “The Plague”) that you can catch death by hanging around a dead body.įor the most part, it’s just not true. I have the luxury of practicing my death look. Embalming doesn’t promote the public health. In most states, what is pushed out of the body goes down the drain and out into public sewage.įour. So … about Vladimir Lenin and his dead-since-1924 body that is still viewable today? Harry Potter magic and a few other tricks is the answer. The official definition from the American Board of Funeral Service Education states that embalming is “the process of chemically treating the dead human body to reduce the presence and growth of microorganisms, to retard organic decomposition, and to restore an acceptable physical appearance.” ![]() It’s possible that the body is in good shape, but not probable. You can’t dig up an embalmed body from 1920 and expect it to be a perfect specimen of unblemished human anatomy. It does not preserve the body indefinitely. Weird? Yes.īut so is cremation, sky burial, endocannibalism, famadihana and mummification. Yes, we lay a nekked person on a table and take out their blood, replacing said blood with embalming fluid. ![]()
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