William Godwin

Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

English Writer

Jonathan Bailey

The thing with Sondheim is that people sometimes say he's the only thing that matters, and then you end up embalming him, when the fact is he just writes the best and most accessible music.

English Actor

William Hazlitt

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

English Critic

Florence King

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

American Writer

Zygmunt Bauman

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

Polish Sociologist

Dustin Hoffman

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

American Actor

Andre Bazin

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

French Critic

Neil Simon

Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

American Playwright

Angus Young

Key to longevity... drinking embalming fluid every year.

Scottish Musician

Benjamin Disraeli

British Statesman

Used in the context of funeral services by professionals like morticians.

Profession Specific

Often associated with ancient Egyptian mummification methods.

Historical Practices

Talk about embalming with sensitivity, as it involves death.

Sensitive Subject

Used to express a strong desire to keep memories alive.

Emotional Significance

Carries a poetic or philosophical tone in literature.

Metaphorical Use

Unlike the literal meaning, this usage does not involve actual preservation.

Not Literally Preserving

 before they drained them out for embalming. So I mentioned that microbes have all these important functions, and they've also now, just over the past few years, been connected to a whole range of different diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, heart disease, colon cancer, and even obesity.

Rob Knight: How our...

 displaces the blood which escapes through an incision usually in the jugular vein almost immediately the corpse begins to harden this may seem like a process dreamed up by a mad scientist but in reality embalming has deep historical and religious roots in

Preserving Corpses PIPE...

 a practice which causes respiratory problems and cancer in funeral personnel. So by trying to preserve our dead bodies, we deny death, poison the living and further harm the environment. Green or natural burials, which don't use embalming,

Jae Rhim Lee: My...

 in their culture here in terrassa beloved relatives receive their favorite dishes three times a day even after they are dead to Rajan's don't immediately bury the body of a family member they keep the embalmed corpse and treat it as

Family Keeps Corpse in...

 corpse begins to harden this may seem like a process dreamed up by a mad scientist but in reality embalming has deep historical and religious roots in America embalming arose not from a quest for immortality but from perhaps the

Welcome to Embalming 101...

 Conventional burial begins with embalming, where funeral staff drain bodily fluid and replace it with a mixture designed to preserve the corpse and give it a lifelike glow. Then, as you know, bodies are buried in a casket

When I die, recompose me...

 They'll inject dyes so the person looks a little more alive -- just resting. Embalming is a cheat code, providing the illusion that death and then decay are not the natural end for all organic life on this planet.

A burial practice that...

 items they could need in the afterlife including gold jewelry food drink and even pets preparing for this journey to the gods also involved mummifying one's body the deceased's corpse was embalmed

Ancient Egypt 101 PIPE...

 Mummification is an incredible process of drying out and embalming the body to preserve it, ready for its journey to immortality in the afterlife. Key to it all was the preparation of the body.

The Mummification of...

 others are not so lucky the brine embalms their bodies