Before the Civil War, embalming was performed mainly to preserve the body for the purpose of medical studies. There were no specific guidelines for the embalmer. Embalming was performed by those with ...

For millennia, humans have used different methods to preserve the deceased, from Egyptian mummification to modern embalming. While embalming is common in the United States, there is growing interest ...

A Brooklyn funeral home mistakenly retrieved the body of a Pentecostal minister from a hospital morgue — and then embalmed her, in violation of her religious beliefs, the woman’s grieving family says ...