1.   The embalmer washes the body with germicidal soap and replaces the blood with embalming fluid to preserve the body.

2.   But the thought of embalming fluid makes him shudder.

3.   Fennix and others said Sappington regularly used cigarettes soaked in a type of embalming fluid to get high.

4.   It could only be cured, he said, with embalming fluid.

5.   It is unlikely, however, that every femur will yield DNA because embalming fluid can destroy the genetic material.

6.   L. McCarty, chief forensic chemist of the Kansas City Regional Crime Laboratory, said any buzz from embalming fluid may be only psychological.

7.   Suicide by a mortuary worker who said she was harassed and sprayed with blood and embalming fluid from a corpse.

8.   When Greg Cullen gets phone calls from youngsters looking for a pint of embalming fluid, he slams down the phone.