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Problems In Embalming: Cyanide Poisoning, Rebecca Majus Nov 2017

Problems In Embalming: Cyanide Poisoning, Rebecca Majus

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

To inform funeral professionals, or anyone interested, what cyanide poisoning is, how death from it occurs, how to detect it in postmortem remains, how it poses a problem for embalmers, and what embalming techniques can be used to treat it.


Are Funeral Homes Nickel And Diming The Consumer To Death?, Anthony Fleege, Brian R. Powell Nov 2017

Are Funeral Homes Nickel And Diming The Consumer To Death?, Anthony Fleege, Brian R. Powell

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

Funeral prices vary greatly across the United States. Even in the same community prices can vary by hundreds or thousands of dollars for the same services. Based on existing data and from surveying funeral homes in all fifty states, we are trying to determine if the public is getting nickel and dimed to death by unnecessary or over -inflated prices.