After you die, your body has quite a few options –– from being turned into a diamond to helping solve a murder. This week, let us break down the possibilities so you can rest easy.
Sources:
- Human body preservation – old and new techniques
- Lenin’s embalmed body
- Lincoln’s embalming
- Arsenic toxicity
- Encyclopedia of mortuary practices
- Modernity in medicine and hygiene at the end of the 19th century: the example of cremation
- Burnt human remains
- Body Worlds Plastination
- Human composting
- Mercury in dental amalgam
- Cremation air pollution
- Compounds released into the air by cremation
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