JamesWhitehead
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I like the sound of being useful. Finally
I've had a Futures bid for your Zinc. Hold in there a while and it might go up.
I like the sound of being useful. Finally
or maybe they leave it on for something to grab onto when you are filing the nails down?
I'm not sure that's the sort of service my chiropodist offers.
Sorry, no more details, the anecdote speaks for itself really. It wasn't any secret that Jackson left his body to science, by the way, I have a memory of reading it in his obit at the time. I suppose it's just squeamishness that makes the idea of having your body parts, all of them, used for research. Mind you, we've all heard the horror stories about medical students' sense of humour.
"She snipped off some ginger pubes & kept them as a lucky mascot in a matchbox on a shelf in the kitchen for 30 years"
has he been dead for that long?????
No - and there really does lie a tale.
No - and there really does lie a tale.
8 of the World's Strangest Burial Spots
by Eric Grundhauser
July 28, 2015
Death could take you at any time, so it is always a good idea to have some instructions in place for how you would like to be buried. But why settle for a boring underground burial when you could have your body stored for its eternal rest in all sorts of interesting places? In fact, all over the world, people have been burying the dead in unexpected locales.
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A hearse just about identical to this has just gone by outside. Had the same purple cross as well.
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A hearse just about identical to this has just gone by outside. Had the same purple cross as well.
Why is embalming done?
There are three reasons: Hygiene – so that the Funeral Directors and others coming into contact with the deceased are protected; Preservation – so that the family have quality time to spend with their family member without the concerns of decomposition or odors and thirdly, Restoration –an embalmed body generally looks better.
No, I wouldn't have thought so.Is burying/burning skin bags of formaldehyde a good idea?
Can't they just store the body in a really large tupperware box?
That would make 'open casket' funeral services a no-no.I meant untill burial, instead of formaldehyde. For that sealed-in freshness.
Hmmm.Near the end of his life, Bela Lugosi was so drug addicted he had to drink formaldehyde to get through the day. Or possibly as an early preparation for the inevitable.
Formaldehyde is highly toxic to all animals, regardless of method of intake. Ingestion of 30 mL (1 oz.) of a solution containing 37% formaldehyde has been reported to cause death in an adult human. Water solution of formaldehyde is very corrosive and its ingestion can cause severe injury to the upper gastrointestinal tract.