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Cremation or no cremation doesn't affect the embalming or prep work. Whether or not you have a public visitation with the body present does.
Direct burial has never needed embalming.
Funeral followed by cremation usually does involve
s embalming.
Or to put it more simply...
Direct burial or direct cremation never needs embalming.
Funeral followed by burial or cremation does usually involve embalming.
The cremation part has no bearing at all on the embalming or prep. Only the public visitation determines that.
You know way too much about dead bodies.
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