Via the Capsula Mundi website: Capsula Mundi is a container with an old perfect shape, just like an egg, made with modern material -starch plastic- in which the dead body is put in a fetal position. Capsula Mundi is planted like a seed in the soil, and a tree is planted on top of it. […]

Sarah Bernhardt makes Lady Gaga look like Taylor Swift. Via Andy Boyd at the University of Houston: Sarah Bernhardt was born in the early 1840s in Paris, France. Her father is unknown. Her mother was a courtesan for the well-to-do, and trained her daughter in the art of alluring men for a living. Bernhardt proved […]

  Rosalia Lombardo’s one hundred year old body may be the most beautifully embalmed body in the world.  Here’s some history and a video: Via Wikipedia: Rosalia Lombardo (December 13, 1918 in Palermo, Italy – December 6, 1920), was an Italian child who died of pneumonia. Rosalia’s father, Official Mario Lombardo, was sorely grieved upon […]

Perhaps the greatest value that the embalmer gives to society is the ability to restore disfigured bodies.  There’s a limit to what we’re able to restore, but for many cases we can allow families to see their deceased loved one in a restored (or semi-restored) state. Sometimes, though, the viewing of a mutilated body is a […]