Interesting piece on embalming, both the short-term open-casket version and the Lenin-style long-term version that is being proposed for Caesar Chavez I.
The death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has been met with mixed feelings here in the US. But he was adored in his country, at least by those who didn't despise him, so after his death, his vice-president, Nicolas Maduro, stated that his body would be embalmed "like Lenin and Mao Zedong," and displayed for a week.
But how do you display a body for an entire week?
Yes, like one of the great mass murderers of the 20th century; thankfully Chavez didn't have reeducation camps, but he seemed to come close to duplicating the Great Leap Backward
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