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Embalming, headstones, ornaments, and plastic flowers are not allowed.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024

Embalming would make it significantly more difficult to conduct a full toxicology screen.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2023

Embalming is popular only in the U.S. and Canada; in the rest of the world, it’s actually quite rare.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2021

Embalming and calling hours took place at the homes of the deceased.

From Washington Times • Feb. 4, 2020

The violet sighed its life away, Embalming, with its last faint breath, The little foot, that thus, in play, Had put its soft, blue flower to death.

From The Boys' And Girls' Library by Various