A death can feel catastrophic and overwhelming, not only for mourners who loved the deceased person but also for anyone outside the loss who understands the pain it has caused. That is one of the most ...

The first time she held a dead man's hand, she knew it wouldn't be the last. An apprentice at a South Nashville funeral home, Melissa Willis found herself in an embalming room in 2018 with the body of ...

Jasmine Berrios doesn't look like the stereotypical image one conjures up when they think of a mortician — a morose older man in a dark suit who's been running the family-owned funeral home business ...

A mortician has taken to TikTok to frankly discuss practices and products used to prepare people for burial. Evie Rodriguez, who works as a funeral director and embalmer in Illinois, posts videos to ...

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, brains usually are put back in the belly of the cadaver. When I tell ...

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