A death can feel catastrophic and overwhelming, not only for mourners who loved the deceased person but also for anyone outside the loss who understands the pain it has caused. That is one of the most ...

Not much stuns mortician Hari Close after embalming more than 12,000 bodies over 30 years. But Close was left speechless last spring when he was tasked with preparing the body of a man who had been ...

Funeral Director & Embalmer Kenny Schwalbert stands in the casket showroom at the Pearson Funeral Home location at 149 Breckenridge Lane in Louisville, Ky. Schwalbert is leaving the funeral industry ...

A mortician has taken to TikTok to frankly discuss practices and products used to prepare people for burial. Evie Rodriguez, who works as a funeral director and embalmer in Illinois, posts videos to ...

Victor M. Sweeney, a licensed funeral director and mortician, breaks down clips from movies and TV about dead bodies, funerals, and embalming, and explains how accurate they really are. Is the dead ...

OAKLAND — California regulators accused a Rohnert Park funeral home operator with trying to bribe an embalmer into signing statements that five bodies were chemically preserved before they were sent ...

She sees dead people — daily. A young mortician has gone viral on TikTok, sharing macabre trade secrets and talking about the most difficult parts of working with the dead. Eileen Hollis grew up in ...

A Mortician’s Tale is a management game about running a mortuary, one where players will have to embalm or cremate bodies, attend funerals while consoling the mourners, and deal with the business side ...

Chloë Angst moonlights as a musical theater performer, and likes to sing at work to keep her voice in shape. Her clients don’t seem to mind. They are, after all, dead. “It’s a good time to practice. I ...