It was in this cemetery where my father revealed to me the journey the human body takes after death, after the body is embalmed, after nature finally takes its course and decomposition occurs.
She said that after a much-loved aunt died her body was embalmed so that she could remain with her grieving husband and their children, corporeally at least.
To ensure that Venezuelans do not lose sight of their former "commander", Chávez's body will be embalmed and his remains displayed in a glass case, just as Lenin, Stalin and Mao were.
Or is it really still a Soviet land, in which Lenin's embalmed body hogs the spot of honour in Red Square, where Stalin reposes in undisturbed dignity in the Kremlin wall behind, and the national anthem may soon again proclaim "the unbreakable union of Soviet republics?" Bizarre as it may sound, the answer is a bit of both.
The religious establishment, on which the House of Saud relies to sustain its autocratic rule, has embalmed many tribal customs as Islamic and enforces strict interpretations of the religion which are not shared by Muslims in other countries, nor indeed by many in Saudi Arabia.Instead, change is coming in other ways.
Indeed, Mr Poe took time off to lay a wreath at the feet of Marcos's embalmed body, in the presence of Imelda, Marcos's well-shod widow.Mrs Arroyo, on the other hand, is a seasoned campaigner.
His corpse, embalmed and dressed in red robes, lay exposed at a cathedral in Manila this week to the many tearful mourners from the bishop's Philippine Independent Church.
However, ratings of the dead David's mind in the story in which his corpse was embalmed and buried varied with the participant's religiosity.Irreligious participants gave the buried corpse about the same mental ratings as the vegetative patient (-1.51 and -1.64 respectively).
But it is also home to such curios as Canopic jars, which were used by the ancient Egyptians to store embalmed viscera.
WHAT is claimed to be Mao's embalmed body, still with a faint blush of colour in its cheeks, has lain in state in a crystal coffin in Tiananmen Square for more than three decades.
It is with a sort of relish, in the end, that he describes Pius XII's imperfectly embalmed body farting and eructating in its coffin, turning grey-green, the blackened nose at last falling off, as if finally reflecting the years of inveterate political corruption.His first indictment is simply stated.
