embalm

Example Sentences

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Funeral directors are unable to embalm or treat the deceased in their care until a death is registered.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2025

However, Full Circle, and doulas across the country, do not embalm or handle human remains.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2022

Lawyer Ronald Gordon, who is representing Chen’s family, said Chen’s parents traveled to Fiji after their daughter’s death but didn’t embalm her body and take her to the U.S. as they’d hoped.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2022

Why had there been a seeming rush to embalm the body, without an autopsy?

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021

It caused Claudia to want to embalm Jamie in a vat of mummy fluid right that minute.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg