Mrs. Murphy jumped to the conclusion that it would only cost two or three dollars to embalm her dead husband, and so she telegraphed "Yes."
On the arrival of the body at Government House it was immediately embalmed, and lay in State for several days, being then transported to England.
The embalmed bodies of kings were preserved in marble sarcophagi, and hidden in gigantic monuments.
The entrails had been badly embalmed, and it was their fermentation which caused the accident.
Thus died Daniel, and for seven days the women sat apart upon the ground and mourned him, while the men embalmed his body and made it ready for burial.
His body was embalmed and a memorial service was held on board on the 13th.
It also describes, in detail, current methods of embalming, cremation, and burial and of the natural process of decomposition of bodies.
Thus, at the same time that we glorify them, we make them useless, turning them into a wall or embalming them in a museum.
