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How to Help Your Loved One Enjoy Their Final Days

How can I help loved ones enjoy their final days with me?

European Funerary Traditions Across Time and History

European funerary traditions, such as embalming, the use of ossuaries or bone-yards, catacombs, mass graves and crypts, and the burial rite

Natural Burial, Green Burial & Conservational Burial Grounds

Green funerals, natural cemeteries, and conservational burial grounds

Death and Ethics

understanding of death are hidden all the moral and ethical values of human existence

Body Farm: What and Where are They?

Forensic Research Facilities also known as "Body Farms" are where a human decomposition is studied.

Autopsy Lab Do's & Don'ts

An Autopsy lab is the place where postmortem or autopsies are carried out to determine and establish: The cause of death and much more!

Unhealthy VS Healthy Responses to Grief

Grief is a normal human response to loss. Grieving will look different for different people of course, depending on a variety of factors...

Forensic Pathologist: Education & Professional Role

The forensic pathologist is a doctor who has chosen to specialize in the branch of forensic medicine

THE IMPORTANCE OF BODY DONATION

The donation of the whole body after death for scientific purposes is fundamental in order to ensure new advances in many fields of human...

How Does Embalming Work? The Step By Step Process

When you think about embalming, you might think back to ancient Egypt where the practice first started thousands of years ago. Egyptian...

Self-Care Tips for the Bereaved

When a close friend has lost a loved one it can be incredibly difficult to know what to say or do to comfort them. Many times when we...

Laws and Rules You Need To Know When Handling a Dead Body

Even if you’re the type who has a plan for every situation, you probably wouldn’t know what to do if you came across a dead body. And...

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DEATH AT HOME AND AT THE CRIME SCENE

The set of bureaucratic and logistical events that follow the death of a person can be grouped into two different categories, depending...

A COMPARISON OF EMBALMING METHODS AND MEANING OF GREEN BURIAL

The embalming of the corpse is one of the main conservative treatments of corpses, exploited daily by funeral homes to preserve an intact...

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