Danielle Calvaresi, a mortician, said she attended her grandmother’s funeral when she was 13 years old and was struck by the fact that her grandma looked disturbingly “gray and waxy.” ...

After nearly five decades in the funeral sector, one of Britain’s first female embalmers is stepping back from day-to-day operations at Nottingham-based A.W. Lymn. She will remain involved in the ...

The demographics in Georgia are changing, and so is the way people choose to ceremoniously depart this world. Embalming, or the practice of preserving a body to delay decomposition, was the preference ...