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Elvis Autopsy Auction Gets All Shook Up

(July 28) -- Elvis may have left the building, but the man who embalmed him has not. And that has thrown a planned auction of the instruments used in the rocker's autopsy into chaos. Leslie Hindman Auctioneers of Chicago had scheduled an auction for Aug. 12 of the macabre memorabilia, and was planning to sell the Elvis...

Elvis Autopsy Tools Up for Auction

(July 22) -- Elvis Presley was known as the King of Rock 'n' Roll, and soon the medical instruments used to perform his autopsy and embalming will be auctioned off for a princely sum. On Aug. 12, just four days before the 33rd anniversary of the entertainer's death, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, a Chicago-based auction...

'Green Reaper' Wants US to Be Green to the Grave

(April 22) -- Being dead as a doornail is apparently no excuse for not being concerned with the environment. That's why one mortician in Boring, Ore., is taking it upon herself to tell her customers how they can spend eternity without harming Earth -- by creating urns out of their leftover laundry lint. She's Elizabeth...

Background on embalming

Embalming, in most modern cultures, is the art and science of temporarily preserving human remains (some may preserve for long-term) to forestall decomposition and to make them suitable for public display at a funeral.

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