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Deaths in custody: What can museums do to effect change?
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/deaths-in-custody-what-can-museums-do/

Museums have the power to set the agenda.

Decomposition: fly life cycle and development times
https://australian.museum/learn/science/decomposition-fly-life-cycles/

The presence of insects in a corpse is a critical clue towards estimating the time of death for bodies dead for longer periods of time.

Preparation for death: stories
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/preparation-for-death-stories/

Read about how these people from different cultures prepare the bodies of their dead.

Disposing of the dead - Cremation
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/disposing-of-the-dead-cremation/

Cremation is the disposal of a corpse by fire. It is an ancient and widespread practice, second only to burial. Some ancient cultures believed that fire was a purifying agent, and that cremation would light the way of the deceased to another world, or to prevent the return of the dead.

Disposing of the dead - Preservation
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/disposing-of-the-dead-preservation/

The earliest deliberately preserved bodies are those of the Chinchorro culture of northern Chile which date back about 7000 years. Today, the preserved bodies of famous political leaders, such as Lenin and Mao Tse Teung, demonstrate the continuing urge to defy death in some way.

Burial - coffins and caskets
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/burial-coffins-and-caskets/

The word coffin is the general term for the receptacles in which a corpse is buried. Many people use the terms coffin and casket interchangeably. To the funeral industry, however, they are two different things.

Preparing the body for disposal
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/preparing-the-body-for-disposal/

Find out how bodies are prepared, covered, stored, enclosed and, finally, transported for disposal.

Autopsies
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/autopsies/

An autopsy is a detailed and careful medical examination of a person's body and its organs after death to help establish the cause of death.

Morgues and mortuaries
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/morgues-and-mortuaries/

Morgues are places where reportable deaths are investigated by a coroner, while mortuaries are the places where dead bodies are stored temporarily for a range of reasons, including autopsies and preparations for burial such as embalming.

Ching Ming
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/ching-ming/

The Ching Ming ('Clear Brightness') festival has been celebrated annually at Sydney's Rookwood Cemetery since at least the 1880s.