George Hollister, National Wildlife. Labeling places a microscope on areas that are normally fuzzy and undifferentiated. Preservation has to do with the state of remains at first sight. Conservation is what I do. If I glue for wash something or make any other alterations, it has to be accounted for, by law.
Maceration is the removal of soft tissue.
We usually don't macerate a whole person. It's too much time and work. Then harvesting . . . And sometimes the gesture has a peevish or cowardly aspect, or seems to have been senselessly shortsighted as far as an outside observer can tell. There are desperate suicides and craft suicides, people who do it to cause others trouble and people who do it to save others trouble, deranged exhibitionists who yell from a building ledge and close-mouthed secretive souls who swim out into the ocean's anonymity.