Walter Williams, 78, was pronounced dead by medical staff and transported to a Mississippi funeral home in a body bag. But ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (CN) - The state's attorney general has filed a suit seeking to shut down a funeral home that allowed bodies to be stored without refrigeration or embalming more than 10 months. A recent ...

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The coroner says he took the man's pulse and put him in a body bag only to be surprised when he put the 78-year-old on the embalming table. A man in Mississippi whom the coroner had declared dead on ...

Utah has suspended the license of a South Salt Lake mortuary amid misconduct allegations that include mixing ashes, leaving bodies unrefrigerated and stealing jewelry from the deceased. Thursday ...

A dwindling group of professionals is tasked with navigating the often fraught passage from life to death. A Duotronic embalming machine in the James Hunt Funeral Home.Credit...James Estrin/The New ...

Ron Wayt positions a body on the embalming table with the legs raised in order to promote blood flow as it drains from the body and is replaced with an orange embalming fluid mixture. The limbs must ...