Timebomb from the tomb- are our relatives poisoning us from the grave?

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Beginning during the Civil War, morticians realized that arsenic worked as a preservative. Three pounds of the toxic material was used per corpse. John Konefes is concerned that the arsenic may leach out into groundwater.
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News Public Relations News Release 1989 668 1