Embalming Modern Mummification

In ancient Egyptian society, preserving a body after death was an important process necessary for entrance into an immortal existence, that is how mummification became important. Embalming was initiated during the civil war in the US, to make possible for the bodies of the soldiers to return home for a proper funeral. Embalming and mummification are both processes to delay the decay of the body. Not everyone was mummified in Egypt, a complete mummification process were applied to people who could afford the costly treatment. Many members of nobility and upper class could receive the full treatment but if you where slave your chances where slim. The funeral industry promotes embalming because gives funeral homes sales opportunity to increase consumer spending. Embalming forms the entire funeral-service structure, it is the basis of profitable merchandise. To embalm means to treat a dead body so as to preserve it, with chemicals, drugs, or balsams; also, to keep in memory and to cause to remain unchanged. The embalmed body will decay faster than the mummified ones; decomposition depends on strength of the chemicals used, humidity and temperature of the final resting place. Embalming and mummification are physically invasive. In the mummification, process organs were taken out the body throughout this technique the body is covered and filled with different substances that help preserve