Isabel Walton spends her day surrounded by dead bodies and says she is proud to get the recently deceased "ready for their last goodbyes". The young embalmer is one of the people Stacey Dooley met ...

An undertaker has explained what he thinks has taken place to preserve the Queen's body. The UK's longest-reigning monarch is now lying in state in Westminster Hall. During the four-day event, ...

President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15th, 1865, mere hours after John Wilkes Booth inflicted the mortal gunshot wound, but his body had to survive a 19-day train ride across the country before ...

Recreational drug users in the US are using embalming fluid to get a high - even though it is highly dangerous and can make them violent and psychotic. Research has found that the use of embalming ...

Silent toxins are seeping out of graveyards around Northern Ireland. And they have been for decades. The problem is the formaldehyde and other chemicals which are used in embalming the dead.