The cost of saying goodbye is climbing. Here are some alternatives to traditional burials — and what to do when you can't ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Embalmer, Sammi Davenport, believes "it goes without saying" people working in the funeral profession "should be respectful" [BBC] ...

Ricks runs the funeral home mostly alone, with assistance from a general manager. His wife, children and other licensed ...

Embalmer, Sammi Davenport, believes "it goes without saying" people working in the funeral profession "should be respectful" "I was so shocked that you didn't have to have some sort of qualification ...

"I was so shocked that you didn't have to have some sort of qualification to handle dead bodies," said embalmer Sammi Davenport when she recalled first joining the funeral industry. Dame Caroline ...

Now in her 48th year working in the industry and following a trailblazing career which saw her become only the seventh woman to qualify as an embalmer in Britain, Jackie Lymn Rose, fourth-generation ...

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) -- A Burlington funeral home and one of its employees have been fined by the state for embalming a body before getting the family's permission.

After nearly 100 ceremonies, the Academy Awards will finally recognize casting directors. When four of the first five Oscar nominees in the category assembled at the Culver Theater in Culver City on ...

But they soon discovered several restrictions that made organizing a green burial almost impossible. After Kyle Moore died, his parents Terry and Shirley became advocates for green burial in their ...

Kuperman Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Narwhal Kyle Moore was “the quintessential tree-hugger,” his father says. He was dedicated to shoreline conservation; he held a belief that people are ...