Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I was a funeral director and embalmer for 11 years. I learned a lot about our bodies and death by doing my job. After an autopsy, ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — A Camden funeral home will keep its license even amid accusations of falsifying records misrepresentation and unlicensed embalming; that decision followed a 5-hour hearing today.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (CN) – The state’s attorney general has filed a suit seeking to shut down a funeral home that allowed bodies to be stored without refrigeration or embalming more than 10 months. A recent ...

One student was painting a mustache, completing the process of turning a wax-covered skull into the image of Walt Disney. Another was crafting the elongated ears of poet Allen Ginsberg. Randi Cloud ...

But it's a job that embalmer and funeral director Amy Kilbride enjoys. "The deceased is a vessel where life once existed," she said. "I still treat that person with respect, but the spark that made ...

(St. Louis, MO) — What was supposed to be a funeral turned into a police investigation after the family of a St. Louis man claimed a mortuary failed to embalm the body, and even failed to dress it.It ...

If you died 200 years ago in America, your family would wash and dress your body and place it in a bed surrounded by candles to dampen the smell of decomposition. Your immediate family and friends ...

Employment of funeral home workers are expected to grow by 13.6 percent in the area through 2020. Geraldine Dixon started in the business in 1968 and now runs G. L. Dixon Funeral Home on North Street.

Three caskets and embalming fluid are among the items stolen from an Upstate funeral home, according to an incident report from Union Public Safety.Police were called to the Gibson and Brown Funeral ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Several Austin-area funeral home embalmers say it's common practice to pour human blood from corpses down the drain, a procedure that Austin Water officials admit they were unaware was ...