Quote by Alan Weisman

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't…

— Michael Baden

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the…

— Michael Baden

“I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a…

— Sara Sheridan

“The authorities did not wish to confront those citizens with the sight of the dead. Finally bodies were dumped unidentified into mass graves. Like…

— Susan Griffin

“An arsenic compound is still used to treat promyelocytic leukemia, and the isotope arsenic-74 is used as a radioactive tracer to find tumors.”

— James Mahaffey

Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of…

— Earnest Hooton

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.

— David Levithan

ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn. "Eat arsenic? Yes, all you get," Consenting,…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Left to their own devices, human bodies rot, decompose, come apart, and sink gloriously back into the earth from whence they came. Using embalming…

— Caitlin Doughty

“When you get right down to it, there is no dignified way to go, be it decomposition, incineration, dissection, tissue digestion, or composting. They're…

— Mary Roach

“Why do we bury our dead?” His nose was dented in at the bridge like a sphinx; the cause of which I could only…

— Yvonne Woon

“In recent years, a green burial movement has protested formaldehyde, which oxidizes to formic acid, the toxic in fire ants and bee stingers, as…

— Alan Weisman