For millennia, humans have used different methods to preserve the deceased, from Egyptian mummification to modern embalming. While embalming is common in the United States, there is growing interest ...

The ancient Egyptians were prolific record keepers. For thousands of years, they jotted down everything from legal documents to literature on papyrus rolls and tablets of wood and stone. But there’s ...

"The employee was placing Constance Glantz onto the table to start their process and the employee noticed that she was still breathing," Lancaster County Sheriff Chief Deputy Ben Houchin said. A ...

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 occurring and ...

Walter Williams, 78, was pronounced dead by medical staff and transported to a Mississippi funeral home in a body bag. But ...

Everybody’s going to die. That’s a fact of life. And there’s one thing everybody who dies has in common: We all got bodies. And when we die, something needs to happen with them. Most of the time, this ...

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) -- A Burlington funeral home and one of its employees have been fined by the state for embalming a body before getting the family's permission. The Iowa Board of Mortuary Science ...

A Bristol Township woman alleges a Bristol funeral home used fraudulent paperwork to collect her dead husband’s remains from the Bucks County Coroner’s office and then embalmed him, which was against ...

Hartford — A state board that oversees funeral homes on Tuesday revoked the embalming license of a funeral home director accused of stealing customers' money, a staff attorney said. The Board of ...

A former employee is accused of stealing an embalming machine from a Nashville funeral home, police say. Officers responded to a theft report at Smith Funeral Home Monday where Melvin Smith, the ...