Formaldehyde has undergone quite the image makeover. Best known as the heady, sickly sweet-smelling chemical commonly used to bathe the recently deceased in high school biology labs and funeral homes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People are using embalming fluid to get high, which could lead to dangerous and deadly situations. ALSO READ: Residents push back ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wrapped up in the study of mummies, Egyptologists have been mystified about how pharaohs and other revered dead were embalmed so ...

GALVESTON – Two teens are in police custody after officials say they tried to steal embalming fluid from a Galveston funeral home. Police said 19-year-old Joshua Nismonger and a 16-year-old boy broke ...

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Embalmers say it's a common practice that's completely safe, but Austin Water officials said they had no idea it was happening. Reading time 3 minutes There’s blood in the water in Texas. No, I’m not ...

Several Austin-area funeral home embalmers say it's common practice to pour human blood from corpses down the drain, a procedure that Austin Water officials admit they were unaware was occurring and ...

Before the Civil War, embalming was performed mainly to preserve the body for the purpose of medical studies. There were no specific guidelines for the embalmer. Embalming was performed by those with ...

Every pot smoker has experienced a weak batch of weed. Some resourceful users will sprinkle in other drugs for a stronger effect. Others will just smoke more. But Joshua Lee Long, a 26-year-old man ...

It was right around twenty years ago when some dude sitting next to me leaned over and said: “Hey man, that joint we just smoked had formaldehyde in it.” What the hecking f**k! I’m not going to lie, ...

President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15th, 1865, mere hours after John Wilkes Booth inflicted the mortal gunshot wound, but his body had to survive a 19-day train ride across the country before ...