A small number of funeral homes have been breaching HSE guidelines by embalming people who died from Covid-19 and allowing an open coffin at wakes, it has emerged. The Irish Association of Funeral ...

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 ...

Funeral directors are using hard sell tactics on vulnerable families, trying to push added extras such as embalming, to increase the price. Requests for a ‘simple’ funeral are often ignored with the ...

Grieving loved ones may no longer be able to pay their last respects to dead relatives when the EU bans the chemical in embalming fluid. That is the fear of Britain's funeral directors after MEPs ...

I learned a lot about our bodies and death by doing my job. After an autopsy, brains usually are put back in the belly of the cadaver. When I tell people I worked as a funeral director and embalmer ...

It's not the topic that's regularly talked about, but for some people, death is their life. Funeral service operative and trainee embalmer Cari Vaughan has been working at Coop funeral care for 14 ...

Walter Williams, 78, was pronounced dead by medical staff and transported to a Mississippi funeral home in a body bag. But ...

Morticians are the profession you'd least except to make it big on social media, but funeral workers on TikTok are doing just that, amassing thousands of views and followers by offering deep dives ...

The family of Alexander Pinon, who died in May, alleges in a lawsuit that a funeral home mishandled his remains ...