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 ...

It’s been more than seven years since the FBI raided a Montrose funeral home, kicking off one of the more harrowing true-crime stories in recent American history. Investigators unspooled a macabre, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...