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In Oregon, there are five legal ways to lay the dead to rest. Bodies can be embalmed and shipped out of state; donated to scientific research facilities; cremated; buried; or dissolved. Yes, you read that correctly: When you die, the flesh can literally be dissolved from your bones. The scientific name of the process is alkaline hydrolysis, though it’s more commonly known as aquamation or aqua cremation. If you want to avoid the mildly gory...

Staff with Portland mortuaries say rise in deaths creating a backlog MEGAN ALLISON | KATU Staff Replay Video UP NEXT PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Staff with mortuaries in Portland say intake is up, and they've been facing a backlog for months. That means services that normally only take 72 hours could be pushed back to a week. Strommer said First Call Mortuary Services filled up in November and hasn't slowed down yet. "Throughout the country they took every state and they did some modeling with COVID and Oregon followed that very closely up until November. Then we exceeded those...