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Embalming is meant to temporarily preserve the body of a deceased person. Regardless of whether embalming is performed, the type of burial or entombment, and the materials used – such as wood or metal coffins and vaults – the body of the deceased will, under most circumstances, eventually decompose.
Of the aesthetic preparations prior to embalming, the closure of the eyes, mouth, and lips are the most aesthetically obvious. There is a distinction between mouth closure and lip closure, the former meaning closure of the jaws, whilst the latter is closure of the lips and ‘setting’ the look of the mouth.
A mixture of these chemicals is known as embalming fluid and is used to preserve bodies of deceased persons for both funeral purposes and in medical research in anatomical laboratories. The period for which a body is embalmed is dependent on time, expertise of the embalmer and factors regarding duration of stay and purpose.
Islamic law instructs that the deceased be washed and buried with only a wrapping of white cloth. The cloth is used to preserve the dead person's dignity and to emphasize simplicity. The cloth is sometimes perfumed, but in a natural burial, no chemical preservatives or embalming fluid are used, nor is there a burial vault, coffin or casket.
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Within the Ancient Egyptian concept of the soul, ka, which represented vitality, leaves the body once the person dies. [25] Only if the body is embalmed in a specific fashion will ka return to the deceased body, and rebirth will take place. [21] The embalmers received the body after death, and in a systematized manner, prepared it for ...
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Scientists embalm and store millions of odd bats, snakes, fish, Komodo dragons, and other species in jars and tanks in the Field Museum's basement.