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Preservation. Do you want a smell corpse at a funeral?
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Because most people are not educated enough to donate their bodies to science.
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It slows the decomp rate, allowing for a funeral to take place later than if the body weren't preserved, also allowing for graveyards to not reek to high heaven (pun intended).
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So we can say good-bye with an open casket and not freak!
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To assure they ARE!
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Well you already have alot of great answers here.But it is almost like we are trying to make them live forever.As if they are not dead but just sleeping...I think in some places embalming is reqired by law,unless creamated.But if the gases do that I can see why.
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I think it is psycological. A way of vainly trying to keep the person intact for as long as possible. I want to be cremated after anything that's worthwhile can be donated.
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I wonder why we burn em.
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To stop them from stinking during the process of the funeral. If we had the funeral within a few hours and buried them immediately (or burned the body) the whole embalming process would be pointless.
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Because the alive don't embalm as well.
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To keep funeral homes in business. Embalming as it exists in the Western World today, in most cases, is totally unnecessary and costly to the family of the deceased.
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Not me. Hope my wife doesn't waste money embalming me. I want to be cremated and spread all over the San Francisco Bay.
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Same reason why the ancient Egyptians mummified their dead.
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My guess is that it was a relic of early religions which believed in an afterlife and preserving the body in preparation for it as well as burying things with the body that it would need in the afterlife.
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To stop the bodys tissue rotting,which starts as soon as we stop breathing.
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so graveyards don't smell
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So they can charge the greiving families more money!
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Who should we embalm?
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I think its for "health" reasons related to the corpse rotting. If you're going to cremate or bury the body very quickly, I think its not required by most places. If you want to take time to make nice funeral arrangments or preserve the body (even for medical purposes), you would have to embalm, I think. Letting the body sit around and not cremate it lets organisms and yuckies grow that can make you sick. I think the insides also liquify, before the body starts to dry up. Then take into consideration people that have to handle and move the body around, like medical or funeral worker staff. The body would be leaking out of all their orifices, stinking up the place, and generally making a mess. And yeah no one would want to see or smell a rotting body. embalming is kind of nasty anyway though. if there was an afterlife i bet all the ghosts would have some kind of ghost-cancer from all those chemicals. hehe..
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eww i don't know. Why do we?
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