The Civil War, on the other hand, led to an unprecedented demand for embalming. This consisted of a chemical injection (usually through a femoral artery) after which the embalmer would ship the ...

Green burials — the American standard until the Civil War — are coming back, as people ditch expensive caskets and decompose into the soil instead.

Releasing a movie called Civil War in this election year is certainly one way to grab headlines. Surprisingly, though, Alex Garland's ambitious new thriller largely sidesteps the politics of the ...

Even though the Civil War has been thoroughly studied for over 160 years, new discoveries are still being made. Last spring, a Civil War-era cannonball was found in the backyard of a Virginia home.

Civil War is coming to theaters on April 12, 2024, meaning there’s not all that much time until we get to see what Alex Garland has in store for us with his vision of a divided America on the ...

Alex Garland’s movie ‘Civil War’ is not only about a divided America, it’s dividing American moviegoers. Here’s what you need to know about the new A24 film.

Before the Civil War, embalming was not commonly practiced in the United States. Most Americans handled death and burial at home, relying on refrigeration, ice, or swift burial to delay decomposition.

Civil War, the new A24 film from British director Alex Garland, imagines a scenario that might not seem so far-fetched to some; a contemporary civil war breaking out in the United States.And while ...

But 750,000 Americans would be killed before the Civil War ended in 1865. Four years to the day after Sumter fell, Anderson – by then a retired general – returned to raise the American flag ...

That form of burial was first popularized in the United States after the Civil War, when an embalmed Abraham Lincoln was toured across the country by train. “Embalming was used as a way to bring ...

However, after the Civil War, embalming bodies for public viewing became the American standard. Murray is among the increasing number of people now opting for a green burial.

In truth, the mundanities of the job are unavoidable. You'll have to follow step-by-step procedures for identifying bodies, processing and embalming them, and even cleaning up after yourself, and ...