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embalming  

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  • Embalming is the use of a chemical process to provide short- or long-term preservation of a dead body. Modern embalming removes blood and gas from a body and typically the contents of its internal organs, and then treats the body with chemicals. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Embalming]

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