A woman became a funeral director to overcome her fear of dying and says death has taught her to stop comparing herself to others. Melissa Schmidt, 34, used to get “tunnel vision” at the idea of dying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I was a funeral director and embalmer for 11 years. I learned a lot about our bodies and death by doing my job. After an autopsy, ...

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 ...

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

(St. Louis, MO) — What was supposed to be a funeral turned into a police investigation after the family of a St. Louis man claimed a mortuary failed to embalm the body, and even failed to dress it.It ...

Matthew Gagne says he is proud to be a fourth generation funeralhome director. The 37-year-old Norwich resident is funeral director, manager and embalmer at Cummings-Gagne Funeral Home in Norwich. "I ...

When it comes to death, some of us are happy to talk openly about it – but others seem to shy away from the discussion on what happens to us when we die. It's inevitable that it's going to happen, but ...