Well, here is a strange little story about history, an auction and some embalming tools. An embalmer who supposedly handled Elvis' embalming, has listed funerary tools in a Chicago auction set in August.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-talk-elvis-autopsy-auction-0722-20100721,0,1877502.story
The Chicago Tribune article seems to handle the story as more of an announcement. The authenticity and the ethics of the tool set is questioned at the bottom of the article by president of a local mortuary college, Worsham College of Mortuary Science (in Wheeling).
On the other side of the Mississippi is an article written by the Commercial Appeal.
The paper in Elvis' home town, Memphis, has something else to say about the story. The article's lede is about the tools' authenticity.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/jul/21/truth-about-macabre-auction-buried-in-past/
I feel it is sensationalistic that the have to show pictures of the tools. That, I just don't want to see. Scroll down on that if it's too much to view.
I'm glad journalists in both articles contacted officials in the embalming industry to see what they had to say about it. I looked online to see if there were any codes of the ethics that the embalmer might have crossed. I couldn't find any, other than ethics related to "respecting the body" of the deceased. Nonetheless, that's pretty dispicable what the guy is doing. Anything for a buck, man!
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