Giving Death a Makeover...

The funeral industry wasn't always like it is toda...  ...d away from the family.The first major change was embalming , a chemical treatment of the corpse to preserve i...  ...eserve it, which is a uniquely American practice. Embalming started during the Civil War, and soon after, any...

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