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Max Raphael
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According to a 2006 report there are just over 2,000 creamtories in the United States. California tops the list with 185 and North Dakota has the fewest with three.
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In 1897 anthropologist George Amos Dorsey helped convict a Chicago sausage maker of murdering his wife, though no body was ever found. He identified bone fragments, lending support to the theory that she had been ground into sausage.
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In the last 20 years there have been more than 10 million tissue transplants; in the last four decades, half a million cornea transplants.
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Murdered civil rights activist Medgar Evers was so well preserved by embalming in 1963 that an autopsy performed in 1991 helped to finally secure the conviction of his killer.
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Narrator: They save lives, find murderers and teach a new generation how the human body works. They can be buried, embalmed, donated and cremated, they can even create a new habitat. If you work hard in life, just wait until you see what you can do after you're dead. Now, Corpse Tech, on Modern Marvels.
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