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In addition to this fact “the further the funeral industry headed toward becoming a profession, the further women were left behind.” [1] To further exclude women from the funeral industry, Civil War-era trades journals, for instance, The Casket and Embalmer’s Monthly, published articles to discourage women from entering the trade. [3]
The advent of embalming in the normal course of preparation of corpses for burial led directly to the transition of death care from a job predominately performed by women at home to an industry. [5] During the Civil War , hundreds of soldiers died away from home and the process of embalming aided in preserving the bodies until they could be ...
Karen Margaret Greenlee (born 1958) [1] is an American criminal who was convicted of stealing a hearse and having sex with the corpse it contained. She is considered as the "best-known modern practitioner of necrophilia", [2] [3] and her case was the subject of much research due to her sex as only ten percent of known necrophiles are women, [4] as well as because of the highly detailed ...
The owners of a Colorado funeral home were arrested Wednesday in Oklahoma on charges linked to the discovery of 190 sets of decaying remains at one of their facilities, including some that ...
The owners of a Colorado funeral home who allegedly stored 190 decaying bodies and sent grieving families fake ashes were ordered by a judge to pay $950 million to the victims’ relatives ...
The owners of a Colorado funeral home where 190 decomposing bodies were found are set to appear in court Tuesday, facing allegations that they abused corpses, stole, laundered money and forged ...
The passage of Abraham Lincoln's body home for burial was made possible by embalming, and it brought wider public attention to the possibilities and potential of embalming. [ 15 ] Until the early 20th century, embalming fluids often contained arsenic until it was supplanted by more effective and less toxic chemicals. [ 1 ]
National Memorial Park is a cemetery in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Falls Church, Virginia. [1] The cemetery is part of the National Funeral Home and National Memorial Park complex, which includes several related memorial and end-of-life services. The cemetery covers 168 acres, lined with fountains, trees, gardens, and sculptures.