A woman became a funeral director to overcome her fear of dying and says death has taught her to stop comparing herself to others. Melissa Schmidt, 34, used to get “tunnel vision” at the idea of dying ...

NEW ORLEANS (WLS) -- A New Orleans woman's funeral is going viral, as another example of "extreme embalming." Miriam Burbank, 53, was posed at a table with a glass of Busch beer, a menthol cigarette ...

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 ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WDHN) — While funeral homes are doing services differently now due to the pandemic, some are also taking extra safety precautions when embalming bodies. According to Sunset Memorial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sen. Rick Williams, a Milledgeville Republican, presents SB 239, which would remove the requirement that funeral directors be ...

When George Fiske embalmed his first body in the island country of Cape Verde, people there gave him strange looks. “I think they thought I was from outer space,” Fiske, a longtime Brockton funeral ...

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 ...