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by weinzierl 805 days ago
"vaguely disgusting" has another dimension in the modern era. I read once that by contemporary standards human bodies are essentially hazardous waste and every graveyard is essentially a superfund site.
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Wouldn't that be the formaldehyde in embalming fluid? And mercury from amalgam fillings.
Embalming is very rare in places like continental Europe, and large swathes of the non-western world has religious bans on embalming, so formaldehyde in graveyards is almost purely a problem in the anglosphere.
Also bioaccumulation of heavy metals.
Some claim is the preservative in food.