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 ...

BEGINNINGS: Stacey Dilwith did not attend college and was unsure what she wanted to do for a career. “I was working at retail. It was a job, but it was not my job,” she says. “I’m naturally an ...

Not much stuns mortician Hari Close after embalming more than 12,000 bodies over 30 years. But Close was left speechless last spring when he was tasked with preparing the body of a man who had been ...

Funeral Director & Embalmer Kenny Schwalbert stands in the casket showroom at the Pearson Funeral Home location at 149 Breckenridge Lane in Louisville, Ky. Schwalbert is leaving the funeral industry ...

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 ...

Chloë Angst moonlights as a musical theater performer, and likes to sing at work to keep her voice in shape. Her clients don’t seem to mind. They are, after all, dead. “It’s a good time to practice. I ...

She sees dead people — daily. A young mortician has gone viral on TikTok, sharing macabre trade secrets and talking about the most difficult parts of working with the dead. Eileen Hollis grew up in ...