Can you preserve a dead body in your own house?

Question

I was watching Discovery Channel and I was watching this show about how a man preserved his own dead wife in a air tight condainer. I'm not sure if you can actually because it seems kind of cool yet gross. She was preserved and then used as a coffee table in his living room so that she will always be with him. Thank you! :]

Answer 1

Well, I know it's not a human but I do know someone who preserved his favorite dog in vineger for over 20 years in his own home ( I didn't know he'd done it until he died, and then the family found the dog and realised it was dear old Wilbur who had died 20 years previously)

Answer 2

It is almost universally illegal to keep a human body in a home or other storage area.

Charges can range from murder to abuse of a corpse.  

Answer 3

Why would you want to?