thanatopraxy

For example in Quebec under Section 38 of the Public Health Protection Act persons wishing to operate a laboratory organ tissue bank, a vacation camp, or an ambulance service, to act as a funeral director, or to practice embalming, cremation, or thanatopraxy, must have resided in Quebec for at least twelve months in order to obtain a licence.

1983, Michael J[ohn] Trebilcock, John Whalley, Carol Rogerson, Ian Ness, “Provincially induced barriers to trade in Canada: a survey”, in Michael J. Trebilcock, Robert S[tobo] Prichard, Thomas J[oseph] Courchene, John Whalley, editors, Federalism and the Canadian Economic Union, Toronto, Ont.: […] [F]or the Ontario Economic Council by University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, part 2 (Evidence), page 281

Hygeco, a company in France that specializes in “thanatopraxy,” or preservation care, offers cold chambers and in late 1996 was contracted to supply 1,000 to Saudi Arabia, where bodies are sometimes stored for more than a year.

1998, Christine Quigley, “Buying Immortality: Emulations, Innovations, and Applications”, in Modern Mummies: The Preservation of the Human Body in the Twentieth Century, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, published 2006, →ISBN, page 161, column 2

Human anatomical waste consisting of body parts or organs (but excluding teeth, hair, nails, blood and biological liquids) and non-anatomical waste consisting of any of following: sharp or breakable object having been in contact with blood or with biological liquid or tissue and having been used in medical or dental care or in medical biology laboratory, or such object used in thanatopraxy (performance of embalming); […] blood container or material that has been saturated with blood and used in medical care, in medical biology laboratory or in thanatopraxy, are all subject to Regulation respecting biomedical waste.

2004, “Biomedical Waste”, in Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest, New Providene, N.J.: Martindale-Hubbell, →ISBN, “Canada–Que” section, page 27, column 1

The subject of this discussion is embalming, or as it is often called in Europe—thanatopraxy. The European name of thanatopraxy was created to distinguish between the perception that embalming was in some way similar to mummification as practiced by the ancient Egyptians (amongst others): it is likely that the word embalming does not translate readily into non-English languages without attracting this inference. This is further underlined in some countries where embalming is forbidden by law, whereas thanatopraxy is a legitimate practice. […] It is as much a question of custom and purpose that serves to define the difference between the two types, for the sake of clarity I intend to use the term ‘thanatopraxy’ to differentiate between ‘funeral’ embalming and ‘medical’ embalming.

2006, Peter J. Ball, “Embalming—United Kingdom and European”, in Robert G. Mayer, Embalming: History, Theory, and Practice, 4th edition, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, Medical Publishing Division, →ISBN, III (Selected Readings and Glossary), section I (Selected Readings), page 683, column 2

Simultaneously he studied anatomical science and attended the Shropshire School of funeral services, obtaining a Diploma in Embalming or Thanatopraxy as it is now known.

2011, Uel Wright, Norman P. McClelland, “David Neville – Fifth Generation”, in The Hennings of Newry, Phoenix, Ariz.: Norman P. McClelland, →ISBN, page 972