Preserving dead bodies for a living might seem weird or creepy or depressing. "But it's actually one of the most rewarding jobs in the world," says John "Jack" Mitchell IV, a sixth generation funeral ...

Amy Cunningham, a licensed funeral director in Brooklyn, says she appreciates the opportunity to create beautiful and ...

The bodies of all types of people probably come through Houston’s Memorial Mortuary and Crematory. However, when the remains of a sex offender came across the embalming table, one mortuary assistant ...

She’s young, she’s hip, and she’s not your father’s embalmer. (Well, actually, she might be.) She’s Jennifer Benson, a 32-year-old licensed funeral director at John L. Ziegenhein & Sons, and she ...

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An embalmer is charged with abuse of a corpse after Texas police say she mutilated the body of a sex offender at a Houston funeral home. Screengrab from video shared to Facebook by Harris County ...

Before he begins the hours-long process of replacing the blood in a body with embalming fluid, James Bryant takes a moment to speak with the decedent on the table in front of him. If it’s a woman, he ...