Melissa Schmidt handles body removal, embalming, preparation and casketing in her role as a funeral director on Long Island Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She covers ...

Colorado is the only state that does not require people who work in funeral homes to be licensed, but that could be changing. Then, addressing why Black pregnant and postpartum people in Colorado ...

Not many seventh-graders know what they want to become when they get older, and fewer still might think it involves the funeral home industry. Frankie Bennett — who with her husband, Jason Bennett, ...

Seth Viddal is relatively new to his particular line of work. So is the line of work itself – at least the way Viddal does it. Tucked away in an industrial area of Arvada is The Natural Funeral, the ...

The wife of the late Texas funeral home worker crushed to death by a burial vault is speaking out on her husband's death. The ...

PENROSE, Colo. — Every day since the discovery of nearly 200 bodies decaying under the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose has been emotionally and mentally taxing for affected families. "I am ...

Wendy Taylor will never forget that one, lazy Saturday morning more than two decades ago when her then 6-year-old son came into her bedroom and made a declaration. “’Mom, Dad, I know what I want to be ...

A UK funeral director took to social media to share what his life is like working with the deceased — which includes some spooky encounters and many one-sided conversations. “Ghosts — have I seen them ...