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3/13/2013

Topic Reading-Vol.336-3/13/2013

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
What's behind the display of embalmed world leaders?
Nowadays, embalming doesn’t seem to be a familiar or common practice used when someone dies and its remains need to be preserved for some time, in some cases for decades for political purposes.
It has been qualified skills and techniques for thousands of years as seen in influential leaders such as Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen, more recently Lenin and Mao Zedong. It also has been used trying to preserve the remains of people who suddenly or unexpectedly died away from home the best at their last, but not for months or years to be displayed but for a short period of time usually only until their loved ones or other mourners see and pay respects for them.
Enjoy reading and learning why and how this practice has been evolved and used. 

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