Lincoln's embalmment

[LincolnToddFan]

OMG, Laurie you have beat me to it. I am sitting here horrified after reading Houmes' wonderfully detailed but grisly description of the particulars of an autopsy.

When my maternal grandmother died many years ago at 56 from the affects of malignant and uncontrolled hypertension, I always assumed that my mother's refusal to allow an autopsy was a decision made from hysterical grief and confusion. Now I know otherwise. To simply stuff everything back into the abdominal cavity, even the dissected brain?!