A woman in Australia decided to become a mortician after attending her grandmother's funeral and seeing her 'gray and waxy' ...

Cults of innovation don’t start with manifestos. They start in garages, labs, and basements—scrappy edges where obsession ...

The demographics in Georgia are changing, and so is the way people choose to ceremoniously depart this world. Embalming, or the practice of preserving a body to delay decomposition, was the ...

There’s a quiet shift taking place all across West Virginia as countless families are beginning to change how they say goodbye to their loved ones.

A handful of public companies and private equity-backed firms are targeting funeral homes as the silver tsunami approaches.

With over 45 million travelers screened by the Transportation Security Administration this holiday season, many may have learned firsthand what a REAL ID is and isn't. Passed by Congress in 2005 and ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The history of embalming in America is deeply rooted in both necessity and cultural ...