According to this commenter, funeral directors often need certain protected health information for
the embalming process, because a person's medical condition may affect the way in which embalming is performed.
Similarly, Pope Paul VI's body decomposed quickly — Lomeli reports that his face went green - despite
the embalming process.
But
the embalming process used to preserve these royal remains worked in Pusch's favor.
It's like
an embalming process, dead on the inside but made to look alive on the outside.
Not exact matches
Those of us who watched LeVar Burton in Reading Rainbow may remember with clarity the episode that featured Aliki's Mummies Made in Egypt (1985); both book and episode, in almost painstaking detail, dealt with the
embalming and mummification
process.
The original purpose of the portraits: the adornment of the
embalmed and thus already artificially
processed body, is a victory of culture over nature, which here, is made eternal by art.