Sentences with phrase «after embalming»

And as a Russian general, Jeremy Irons does his amusing impersonation of Boris Karloff after embalming.

As a Russian, Jeremy Irons continues to develop his amusing impersonation of Boris Karloff after embalming.

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In just the same way, the dull materialist looks at a corpse, notes that it neither acts nor senses anything, and concludes that after you die nothing further happens to you — unless you count your body rotting away, or being burned, embalmed, frozen or whatever.

Since professional embalming gained respectability only after the Civil War, the family most often prepared the body, subsequently placing it in the parlor or living room for viewing.

But what about the majority of bodies, which get refrigerated soon after death, then embalmed and put in a coffin?

«The worst thing that could happen to you after the end of your time would be to be embalmed and laid up in a pyramid,» Andy Warhol wrote in his 1975 book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).