Embalming fluid is one street name for liquid forms of PCP that dealers dip cigarettes in, but people sometimes use actual embalming fluid for similar mind-altering effects. Phencyclidine (PCP) is an ...
A dwindling group of professionals is tasked with navigating the often fraught passage from life to death. A Duotronic embalming machine in the James Hunt Funeral Home.Credit...James Estrin/The New ...
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The ritual of burying a dead body is so deeply ingrained in religious and cultural history that few of us take a moment to question it. But when you dig into the statistics, the process of preserving ...
Formaldehyde has undergone quite the image makeover. Best known as the heady, sickly sweet-smelling chemical commonly used to bathe the recently deceased in high school biology labs and funeral homes ...