embalming fluid

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Blood is removed and embalming fluid - containing the disinfectant formaldehyde - is pumped around the body.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2023

“A man stung by the presidential bee contracts an incurable disease that only embalming fluid can cure,” FDR adviser Harold Ickes said of New York Gov. Thomas Dewey in 1949.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2023

“Absolutely there’s a shift going on,” said Tim Collison, the chief operating officer of The Dodge Company, the largest embalming fluid manufacturer in the country.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2022

It says that each year American burials put more than 4 million gallons of embalming fluid, 20 million board feet of hardwood, 81,000 tons of metal, and 1.6 million tons of concrete into the ground.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2021

Hours before the doctors began the autopsy, embalming fluid was injected into Garfield's circulatory system in order to stop his body from decomposing too fast.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow