restorative art — American embalming Funeral jargon: ... transferred from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture. The process is known in the trade as embalming and restorative art. (J. Mitford, 1963) … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
Art and Upheaval — Art and Upheaval: Artists on the Worlds’ Frontlines, by William Cleveland, with a foreword by Clarissa Pinkola Estés,is a nonfiction book released by New Village Press in August 2008. The book documents artists in six parts of the world who have… … Wikipedia
Embalming — Embalming, in most modern cultures, is the art and science of temporarily preserving human remains to forestall decomposition and to make them suitable for display at a funeral. The three goals of embalming are thus preservation, sanitization and … Wikipedia
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