With the government declaring formaldehyde a carcinogen, these might be boom times for alternative embalming fluids — if it weren’t for the so-called everlasting effect funeral directors stake their ...

Bunbury embalmers share what it takes to prepare a dead human body for a viewing or funeral. While at times challenging, they say it's an important part of the grieving process. Over the last three ...

Unlike the image often conjured of embalmers — "the creepy guys down in the dark, dungeon mortuary" — Luan Murray sees her job as offering a service to people who are grieving the death of a loved one ...

When Axel Griveau, fresh out of high school, told his family back in 2020 that he wanted to become a mortician, no one believed him. However, the idea was a very serious one for him, stemming from 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When COVID first started, we really didn’t know a whole lot about how it was spread ― or, really, much else. There just wasn’t a ...

Old beauty products can make a difference — even in death, helping student embalmers learn the art of mortuary makeup, so that every farewell is dignified In the mornings, an embalming lab is ...