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Dr. Gounder’s relationships with the Biden administration and public health agencies, including the New York City health department, helped her bring the unembalmed body to the United States for the autopsy.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2022

The bodies are unembalmed, often buried with personal effects they had when they died.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2020

But today the dead, unembalmed and sometimes with the clothing in which they were found, are interred without ceremony.

From Washington Times • Apr. 12, 2020

There, funeral directors from across Illinois deliver bodies through the back door to a refrigerator filled with unembalmed cadavers.

From National Geographic • Jul. 29, 2016

By degrees, however, her smooth brow contracted in an anxious frown, and she gasped in low tones: "Well, all is well... only one thing... my body... unembalmed ... without the sacred amulets...."

From Joshua — Complete by Ebers, Georg