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 ...

Renard Matthews, 18, was killed in a robbery earlier this year. His family chose for his body to be displayed using "extreme embalming." Matthews was posed in a chair, wearing a basketball jersey, ...

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.

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 ...

A Fresno couple is suing the Clovis Funeral Chapel for allegedly mishandling their son’s embalming, causing the body to give off a foul odor during the funeral service. The odor was so pungent that ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story was produced in collaboration with CivicStory as part of the New Jersey Sustainability Reporting project. Along a winding, bright green moss trail in Steelmantown Cemetery is a small ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- 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 and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...