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Liam Payne’s body is being prepared for transfer back to his native United Kingdom from Argentina. A source confirmed to Us ...

"Human composting is just one more example of ... about the negative environmental impacts of burial, cremation, and embalming." Washington Post via Getty Images Americans are moving away from ...

Embalming became an art—practiced in booths ... where the Inca offered human sacrifices to their Gods. Over the years, some 115 of these sacrificial mummies have been found in the high Andes.

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Your skin shrinks - the embalming fluid dehydrates you and your ... He often answers questions about the human body and death from his 2.2 million followers. In a recent video, he answered a ...

Embalming fluid contains a mixture of toxic chemicals ... “But technology changes everything, including what we do here,” he ...

Jake’s grave is tucked at the back of the cemetery, past where many passersby may have thought the cemetery ended. Beyond the ...

Green burials, where the person is buried in a wicker basket without embalming, can reduce one's ecological footprint after death.

Jon and Carie Hallford each face up to 20 years in prison. They still face more than 200 charges in state court.