Embalming

John Wayne Gacy a.k.a ‘The Killer Clown’ was known for having an unbridled charm and being an active member of the community. His nickname ‘The Killer Clown’ derives from his persona ‘Pogo the clown’, as Gacy frequently dressed up to perform at kids parties in the neighbourhood. (Strube, 2023) -. Early years of the school. John Wayne Gacy Jr, born on the 17/03/1942 in Chicago Illinois to parents of Irish heritage, John Stanley Gacy and Marion Elaine Robinson. Gacy was the middle child with two…

Vladimir Lenin was founder of the Russian communist party and led the bolshevik revolution and architect and first head of the Soviet state. He had a very busy lifestyle and wasn't always known as Vladimir Lenin. "Vladimir Lenin Biography - Notable Biographies." He was named Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, at birth but he tried out a number of different names including “k. Tulin” and “Petrov” prior to settling on “Linen” by 1902. Historians believe that it may have been a reference to the Lena River…

Lena Baker was the first African American woman in Georgia to be executed in the electric chair. She was executed in 1945, after she was sentenced for killing a man who had held her captive. At the time of Baker's execution, the Georgia prison system was under investigation for reform. About Lena Baker was conceived in 1900 in small town of Cotton Hill, around five miles southwest of Cuthbert, the seat of Randolph County. There, she, her brother, and her two sisters, did farm work for a living.…

of the deceased are relocated and adjusted to the living. Since the dead do not bury themselves, the living perform and act out burial practices to memorialize and reflect the legacy and social status of the deceased. Mummification is a kind of embalming process that preserves the body before arriving into the afterlife. In Egypt, kings or high status elites were seen to be mummified and buried in elaborate ways which shows a strong desire to secure and preserve in…

In Learning Curve, humor theory is heavily applied. “Like branding steers or embalming the dead, teaching was a profession I had never seriously considered. I was clearly unqualified, yet I accepted the job without hesitation, as it would allow me to wear me to wear a tie and go by the name of Mr. Sedaris.” (Sedaris, 2000, pg.83).…

Benjamin Stephenson will continue to be an important part of the history of Edwardsville. He was born in Pennsylvania and then moved to West Virginia later on in his life. He married Lucy Swearington, daughter of an “Indian” landowner, and they had a daughter soon after. The young budding family moved from Kaskaskia to Edwardsville, with Major Stephenson working for Ft. Russel nearby. He originally served in the Illinois militia and moved up in rank. Once he moved to Edwardsville, he became an…

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down written by Ann Fadiman is about a Hmong child, Lia Lee, that has epilepsy. Lia Lees’ story shows the importance of communication in the medical profession dealing with different cultures. Yer, Lia’s older sister, slammed a door which triggered Lia’s first seizure. Quag dab peg or “the spirit catches you when you fall down” is the diagnosis that her parents gave her illness. The Lee family believed in spiritual healing rather than prescribed medication…

I have this awful fear of being burried alive. Coffins to me could be a symbol of beiing burried alive. I don't see them as for the already dead. I have a hard time discribing the fear of being alive when someone puts you in the ground. When I see myself in that situation I see a coffin, you can scream but noone can hear you. The air start to disipate and you slowly start to sufficate and get cabonminoxide poisoning. Not a good way to die. The coffin is always there so I desided for this…

road trip and tells everyone to leave him alone, but then he changes his mind after receiving a warm hug from his caring sister. The third struggle is Grandpa’s death. He dies overnight of a heroin overdose. The family cannot afford to pay for the embalming and funeral due to their financial troubles, so they have to find a way to get his corpse out of the hospital and manage to hide it in the van until Olive arrives at the competition. And the last struggle is the fact that Olive has no ability…

to the dead. Many families of moderate means would flock to battlefields in order to reclaim bodies and escort them home, though this was a privilege few had because of the cost of traveling. In the 1850 embalming came about in America and many people like Thomas Holmes made a fortune with embalming during the Civil War. In 1862 as a direct response to the growing number of dead corpses Congress passed a measure giving presidential power to the president to purchase land that would be used as…