ROME – With the passing of Pope John Paul II (search), a Rome family expected a call from the Vatican to embalm his body. The tradition, carried down from father to son, has for decades fallen to the ...

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Vietnam's communist government has formed a special council to assess the state of its most sacred icon: the corpse -- first embalmed by Soviet chemists and other forensic specialists a half-century ...

A Philippine mortician famous for putting dead dictator Ferdinand Marcos into a glass display case offered his services Friday to the deceased Hugo Chavez, whom Venezuela wants embalmed "like Lenin" ...

Mordechai and Esther wrote the Megillah at the end of the Purim story to commemorate the Jewish victory over Haman and the saving of the Jewish people, but they wrote it with a particular audience in ...

I wish to suggest to the director of legal medicine/government pathologist and the police, that the present situation regarding on-the-spot post-mortem of decomposed bodies and the storage of ...

MANILA, Philippines—The mortician famous for putting dead dictator Ferdinand Marcos into a glass display case offered his services Friday to the deceased Hugo Chavez, whom Venezuela wants embalmed ...