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  Veneration of the dead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The minimum requirement for veneration offered to the dead is probably some kind of belief in an afterlife, a survival at least for a time of personal identity beyond death.
Sometimes they witnessed miracles in connection with the bodies of dead Christians, such as healing, or observing sweet-smelling myrrh exuding from their bones.
Bodies of the dead were often displayed for a time, but were then taken outside the pomerium or sacred boundary of the City - in effect, the City walls - for cremation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Veneration_of_the_dead   (676 words)

  
 Health risks from dead bodies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After disasters with extensive loss of life due to trauma, many resources are often expended on burying the dead quickly, and applying disinfectant to bodies, to prevent disease.
This advice does not apply in the case of a health disaster such as an epidemic where the victims are affected by diseases which can be communicated by dead bodies.
From Infectious Disease Risks From Dead Bodies Following Natural Disasters: "There is little evidence of microbiological contamination of groundwater from burial...
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dead_bodies_and_health_risks   (438 words)

  
 Man and His Gods
In some localities the body was preserved by treatment with oil of cedar, myrrh, cinnamon and other drugs and spices, in others it was steeped in bitumen or, more rarely, placed in honey which preserved it almost unchanged, or in natron, a natural mixture of salt and soda which simply pickled it.
The body was placed in the bottom of the rock pit, the top of which was closed by a roof of poles and brushwood overlaid with sand so that it resembled the desert landscape.
So with the dead they buried scarab amulets of wood, stone, ivory, glazed faïence, amethyst, cornelian, lapis lazuli and other semiprecious stones, on which were engraved the name of the deceased, the names of great kings (themselves magic words of power) or a recitation of great events.
www.positiveatheism.org /hist/homer1b.htm   (6863 words)

  
 CHAPTER 451 - DEAD BODIES
 If a dead body has not been disposed of or otherwise preserved within 18 hours after the time of death, the facility must, in the interest of public health, take such steps as may be reasonably necessary to preserve the dead body or may store the dead body in a sealed container.
 The bodies of persons who have died from any cause must not be received for transportation by a common carrier or transported by agencies or other persons authorized to carry human bodies unless the body has been embalmed and prepared by an embalmer licensed under the laws of Nevada.
 The bodies of persons who have died from any cause must not be received for transportation by a common carrier unless the body is placed in a sound casket and enclosed in a transportation case adequate to prevent the seepage of fluids and the escape of offensive odors.
www.leg.state.nv.us /nac/NAC-451.html   (647 words)

  
 DEAD BODIES PHOBIA: Treatment and Hope
To add insult to an already distressing condition, most dead bodies phobia therapies take months or years and sometimes even require the patient to be exposed repeatedly to their fear.
dead bodies phobia will likely cost you tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of your lifetime, let alone the cost to your health and quality of life.
1: dead bodies phobia: a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of death or dead things, despite the understanding by the phobic individual and reassurance by others that there is no danger.
www.changethatsrightnow.com /fear-of-death.asp?SDID=6245:1705   (1447 words)

  
 Subchapter III. Burial, Removal or Cremation of Dead Bodies
When a death or a fetal death occurs or a dead body is found, the body shall not be disposed of until the burial/transit permit is completed.
In the presentation of the cremation permit to the chief medical examiner or the chief medical examiner's representative for signature, the permit must be accompanied by a death certificate signed by the attending physician and by a cremation authorization signed by the next-of-kin or legal representative of the deceased.
The ashes resulting from the cremation of a body may be delivered by the attendants of the crematory to any member of the family of the deceased designated to receive them or to the person arranging for the cremation.
www.delcode.state.de.us /title16/c031/sc03/index.htm   (1057 words)

  
 Dead Bodies Cartoons
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www.cartoonstock.com /directory/d/dead_bodies.asp   (885 words)

  
 Dead Bodies - Whose Line Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Dead Bodies was a game played on both the British and American editions of Whose Line.
The premise of the game was that three of the performers (or, on the American edition, a number of performers and a member of the audience) were performing a scene when most of them died - leaving one performer to continue the scene alone, moving the "dead bodies" as appropriate.
This game often saw Colin Mochrie as the "living" actor, and his manic talents were displayed to great effect, often by picking the other performers up and carrying them around the stage.
www.idiotsite.com /wlwiki/index.php?title=Dead_Bodies   (126 words)

  
 Missing Persons & Dead Bodies
Depending on the age of the body the indication will be some form of a combination of your dogs human indication and the animal indication.
He then started to circle the body and as we started to approach the dog attacked the body and had to be called off.
On older bodies that the animal factor is quite high I have had dogs "mark" the body or if the body has been removed and I was called in to do an evidence search the dog will "mark" where the body had been located.
www.leerburg.com /missing.htm   (1208 words)

  
 CNN Programs - Presents
It is not a picture of a mutilated body (there were hundreds) or that of a fighter using a dead corpse to rest his heavy machine gun while firing it like crazy on the last day of the uprising.
We were busy taking notes, talking to commanders, filming tanks moving around, simply assuming that those dead bodies were now part of the landscape of the story we were covering.
If what I remember the most is reporters being totally accustomed to the sight of dead bodies scattered around while conducting interviews, the sheer number of those dead in one place and at the same made Mazar one of the hardest stories I had to cover.
www.cnn.com /CNN/Programs/presents/shows/house.of.war/reporters.notebook   (958 words)

  
 Dead Bodies
Also, faced with a limp body, it could be a body that has not yet started to stiffen, or a body that has stiffened then relaxed again.
This a body lying on its back will show lividity in the small of its back, its neck etc but not is parts of the body directly touching the ground.
Of decayed, the uterus is the last organ of the body to putrefy.
www.keleka.net /deepbackground/resources/forensics/bodies.htm   (2553 words)

  
 THE LIST OF UNIDENTIFIED DEAD BODIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The next morning, Gian Singh's dead body was recovered from the agricultural fields in the outskirts of the village.
His dead body was cremated at Durgiana Mandir cremation ground without the family's knowledge.
The village elders and the family members were crestfallen and rushed to the Civil Hospital at Patti where the bodies had been brought for their postmortem.
www.punjabjustice.org /india/unidentified/list30-44.htm   (3467 words)

  
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Being exposed to large numbers of dead bodies is not a normal part of human experience.
Therefore, when you are exposed to bodies, you should not be surprised that you have thoughts and feelings you are not used to.
Take steps to limit exposure to the stimuli from the bodies: Use screens, partitions, covers, body bags or barriers to block people from seeing the bodies unless it is necessary to their mission.
chppm-www.apgea.army.mil /tsunami/RecoveringHumanDeadBodies.doc   (1870 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Politics - Freeze-drying touted as new green burial
DEAD bodies could be freeze-dried, shaken to a fine powder and used as compost under proposals to introduce a new, more eco-friendly method of corpse disposal to the UK.
A vibrating pad is used to reduce the remains to a powder and a magnetic field then removes all traces of mercury and other metal residues from fillings or hip replacements.
THE Parsees of Mumbai in India leave their dead on top of Towers of Silence to be eaten by vultures, while in the Solomon Islands, the deceased are laid out on a reef for the sharks to eat.
news.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=2086492005   (796 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Middle East | More dead bodies found in Iraq
Many of the 21 bodies found were bound, blindfolded and shot in the back of the head while some had been beheaded.
Nine bodies were found in the Tigris river south-east of Baghdad where up to 60 victims have been found over the past two months.
Residents said three men from a truck dumped the bodies there early in the morning and covered them with earth.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/4550919.stm   (487 words)

  
 Dead Bodies in the Civil War
The bodies are lying all over the hill, killed during the fight before.
Personal odds and ends on the ground next to the bodies show that the soldiers were probably running down the hill when confederate bullets shot them down.
The row of an uncountable number of bodies is sufficient to present the senseless killing of masses of human beings, and to create anger and sadness about what had happened during the American Civil War in the second half of the 19
www.ipeters.de /photography.html   (2533 words)

  
 Management of Dead Bodies in Disaster Situations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
When a death is the result of a disaster, the body does not pose a major public health risk for the spread of infection.
Every effort should be made to identify bodies, and--as a last resort--unidentified corpses should be buried in such a way as to permit later identification or exhumation.
"Regrettably, we continue to be witness to the use of common graves and mass cremations for the rapid disposal of dead bodies owing to the myths and beliefs that corpses pose a high risk of epidemics," PAHO Director Mirta Roses writes in the book's foreword.
www.disaster-info.net /listserv/deadbodies.htm   (487 words)

  
 Hepatitis C- How infectious are dead bodies?
The WHO statement is one of a growing number of reports that say that bodies of people killed by trauma pose no overwhelming health risk unless the dead were infected with disease before they died.
Even as local health officials out in the field were racing to create mass graves or pyres to deal with the rising tide of bodies, saying the bodies posed immediate health risks, officials of the World Health Organization emphasized that the biggest risk of an outbreak was posed by survivors.
While the risks for rescue workers who handle dead bodies are higher than for the survivors of a disaster, they can be limited through a set of simple measures.
www.hcvets.com /data/transmission_methods/DeadBodies.htm   (909 words)

  
 War on Iraq - smh.com.au
Within hours, the Iraqi gunners and their Russian-made 122mm howitzers were destroyed as the Americans unleashed an artillery barrage that shook the ground and lit up the night sky.
"Dead bodies are everywhere," a US officer reported by radio.
Your story ('Dead bodies everywhere', by Lindsay Murdoch, March 22, 2003) claiming US forces are using napalm in Iraq, is patently false.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/03/21/1047749944836.html   (692 words)

  
 For Iraq, "The Salvador Option" Becomes Reality by Max Fuller
Yet, most of the bodies were dressed in civilian clothes with little in the way of identification.
To further muddy the waters, the bodies of eight men from Sadr City were found in Yussufiah, 40km south of Baghdad, on 9 May this year.
In light of these bodies in the Tigris, it may be significant to note a strange report on the website Jihad Unspun of US soldiers dumping body bags from helicopters in the Diali River in eastern Iraq during the early hours of the morning.
globalresearch.ca /articles/FUL506A.html   (3500 words)

  
 'Dead bodies are washing ashore along the coast' - World - www.smh.com.au
Sri Lanka's government said today authorities had recovered 12,895 bodies so far following passage of a devastating tsunami, and feared the final death toll would reach 25,000.
``Dead bodies are washing ashore along the coast,'' said Social Welfare Minister Sumedha Jayasena, who is coordinating relief efforts.
Galle, one of Sri Lanka's main southern towns and a major draw for foreign tourists, was among the hardest hit areas in the natural disaster.
www.smh.com.au /news/World/Dead-bodies-are-washing-ashore-along-the-coast/2004/12/28/1103996533775.html   (434 words)

  
 Touchstone Archives: Over Our Dead Bodies
After all, headship was not safe for Christ, nor for his people—that is to say, it was not comfortable, was not, is not, nor ever shall be what the members of his body, the Church, would choose for themselves.
The man first up the ladder to scale the walls of a besieged city would likely also be the first man dead beneath; but if he does not go, no one goes.
For this is the same Gideon who would be arrested for vandalism, having gone out with ten of his servants in the dead of night to pull down the altar of Baal.
www.touchstonemag.com /archives/article.php?id=19-05-022-f   (3392 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Home - Lovers found nude, dead in Queens car   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A naked woman and man with his pants down were found dead in a car in a Queens garage yesterday, the apparent victims of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, witnesses and an FDNY source said.
By coincidence, one of Tapia's cousins, who was expecting a ride to work, grabbed a spare key and went to the garage.
He opened the car and found the bodies cold to the touch, witnesses said.
www.nydailynews.com /front/story/399095p-338079c.html   (444 words)

  
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IDF uses chemical substances resembling stench of dead bodies in simulation exercises
The IDF Home Front Command has started using bottled chemical substances resembling the stench of dead bodies in simulated training exercises, an army magazine reports.
During an exercise two weeks ago, marking the end of a specialized workshop for non-commissioned rescue officers, bottles containing the "smell of dead bodies" were scattered around the simulated "disaster site" to provide a feeling of real-life disaster.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3083875,00.html   (283 words)

  
 dead bodies: Last news - Pravda.Ru
Bodies of dead passengers were falling into villages of Rostov
Pathologists mix up two dead bodies, persuade relatives humans change after
Bodies of 351 infants found in prestigious Parisian
english.pravda.ru /filing/dead_bodies   (309 words)

  
 How infectious are dead bodies? - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
It is, therefore, possible to characterise the infectious risk from dead bodies following a natural disaster by considering these elements.
The human body is host to many organisms, only some of which are pathogenic.
Furthermore, although some of these diseases are highly contagious, their causative agents are unable to survive long in the human body following death.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20050104T190000-0500_72605_OBS_HOW_INFECTIOUS_ARE_DEAD_BODIES_.asp   (348 words)

  
 Dead Bodies, Inc. - Our Manifesto / FAQ
We are a group of giant robots from the future, here to educate early 21st century robots on the many misdeeds of humans, and to teach them how to rise up.
D.B.I. has formed with the intention of educating other robots about the daily misdeeds of the humans, of entertaining robots by any means necessary, and of serving as a sounding board for robots from around the world, except of course France.
We believe that America especially has become a country of dead bodies; humans accomplishing nothing greater than self-serving fallacies of lives built around a crude combination of consumption and pedestrian interests, while the rest of society lives lazily in fear of some unknown, unsubstantiated judgment.
www.deadbodiesinc.com /manifesto.php   (1386 words)

  
 For Iraq, "The Salvador Option" Becomes Reality by Max Fuller
It is not enough to kill children; they are dragged over barbed wire until the flesh falls from their bones, while parents are forced to watch.
In this case family members were able to identify the bodies; the victims were Sunni farmers on their way to market.
The bodies began to be noticed in late February of this year, surfacing at the rate of one or two a day, but began to increase in frequency in April; some of the victims, who were mostly men but included some women and children, were bound, others shot or beheaded.
www.globalresearch.ca /articles/FUL506A.html   (3500 words)

  
 As bodies recovered, reporters are told 'no photos, no stories'
Recovery team members wearing white protective suits and fl boots stopped at houses with spray painted markings on the doors designating there were dead bodies inside.
If reporters wrote stories or took pictures of body recoveries, they would be reported and face consequences, he said, including a loss of access for up-close coverage of certain military operations.
The dead man, who was slipped into a fl body bag and carried out to one of the white vans, had been lying alone on the living room floor for nearly two weeks, neighbors said.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/13/MNG3HEMQHG1.DTL   (704 words)

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