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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) A north Alabama funeral home is accused of failing to embalm the body of a man, forcing mourners to leave an open casket funeral due to the smell of the body, 12 days after he ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln was embalmed after his death. This was the first time most Americans saw an embalmed body, and it quickly became a national sensation. Getty If you died 200 years ago in America, your ...

If you died 200 years ago in America, your family would wash and dress your body and place it in a bed surrounded by candles to dampen the smell of decomposition. Your immediate family and friends ...

Meet the Plymouth people who love looking after the dead On the wall, a blue tray hangs filled with makeup, from blusher brushes and mascara sticks to nail varnish. But the beauty products won't be ...

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 ...