Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of notable body parts of people. It includes specific, individual instances of organs and appendages which are famous in their own regard. Many noted body parts are of dubious provenance [1] and most were separated from their bodies post-mortem. In some faiths, veneration of the dead may include the preservation of body parts as ...
Body snatching is the illicit removal of corpses from graves, morgues, and other burial sites. Body snatching is distinct from the act of grave robbery as grave robbing does not explicitly involve the removal of the corpse, but rather theft from the burial site itself. The term 'body snatching' most commonly refers to the removal and sale of ...
Viewing (funeral) In death customs, a viewing (sometimes referred to as reviewal, calling hours, funeral visitation in the United States and Canada) is the time that family and friends come to see the deceased before the funeral, once the body has been prepared by a funeral home. [1] It is generally recommended (although not necessary) that a ...
The funeral industry in America emerged after the Civil war as a means of disposing of the countless bodies that were accumulated during the war. [1] Prior to this, care of the sick and recently deceased was largely done at home by women. [1] However, the Civil War led to the need to transport many bodies long distances from their place of ...
Ancient Greek funeral and burial practices. The lying in state of a body (prothesis) attended by family members, with the women ritually tearing their hair, depicted on a terracotta pinax by the Gela Painter, latter 6th century BC. Ancient Greek funerary practices are attested widely in literature, the archaeological record, and in ancient ...
Burial vault (enclosure) A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking. Wooden coffins (or caskets) decompose, and often the weight of earth on top of the coffin ...
Roman funerary art. Marble cinerary chest (90–110 AD), made by Marcus Domitius Primigenius "for himself, his freedmen and freedwomen, and their descendants": the deceased makes an offering to a reclining female figure who may be Mother Earth, with two attendants holding food and wine ( Metropolitan Museum of Art) [1] The funerary art of ...
Cassandra Peterson is best known for playing her alter-ego Elvira for the past 25 years and now the vampy actress is sharing her incredibly eclectic life with her fans in a new "coffin table" book ...