Amy Cunningham, a licensed funeral director in Brooklyn, says she appreciates the opportunity to create beautiful and ...

A funeral makeup artist prepares the dead for viewing by the living during an open-casket funeral. The intent is to make the deceased appear as they did in life. Workers who cosmeticize the deceased ...

Facing impending layoffs at his manufacturing plant, Alan Willoughby left to seek financial security selling automobiles at a used-car lot. Then the economy hit the skids, and he struggled to make ...

With New York City funeral homes overwhelmed by the coronavirus, a professor from an upstate town has been transporting bodies so families don’t have to wait weeks for cremation services.

The Ivy Tech Mortuary Science Program is certified by the American Board of Funeral Service Education (ABFSE) and offers students a comprehensive education in legal, science, and business aspects of ...

For a woman whose business is death and dying, mortuary science professor Jody LaCourt has a surprisingly sunny disposition. LaCourt, a University alumna, teaches restorative art and embalming theory ...

A Senate bill headed to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s desk would close a loophole in current law that technically prohibits mortuary science students in Michigan from practicing embalming - a requirement ...

When thinking about what she wanted to do with her life, April Gentling believed she was going to go into law enforcement. Now a first-year student in the University of Minnesota’s Program of Mortuary ...

As American industries struggle to fill plentiful job vacancies in a tight labor market, there's at least one type of work where interest seems to be flourishing: funeral services. Colleges ...

Facing impending layoffs at his manufacturing plant, Alan Willoughby left to seek financial security selling automobiles at a used-car lot. Then the economy hit the skids, and he struggled to make ...