AIKEN, S.C. (AP) - Few people want to be woken during the night by a phone call from the coroner, a hospital or nursing home telling them someone has died. For Cody Anderson, that’s how a typical day ...

COLUMBUS – The way a friend’s body looked at her funeral – thick cosmetics making the 19-year-old seem unnaturally tan for the time of year – prompted Melinda Coffman to rethink the work she was doing ...

Many Ohio businesses have reopened following the state's stay-at-home order this spring related to COVID-19. That includes funeral homes that are now allowing larger services at their facilities.

Mimi Mythen is known online as "Mimi the Mortician," growing popular for her content depicting her studies in mortuary school At 19, she was the youngest graduate in the history of Florida State ...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:27:55 GMT — â??Weâ??re becoming a society where we almost think this is an option and unfortunately itâ??s not,â?? said Ranve Martinson, Funeral Director of Martinson Funeral Home.

Caitlin Doughty, 28, has found success working in the death business. A Los Angeles-based mortician, Doughty grew up in Hawaii and, she says, had "a proclivity towards the macabre." She got her start ...

How did you get into the business? “Believe it or not, I worked for a florist in high school in Worcester, and I was fortunate to meet some very special funeral directors in the city that were truly ...

For centuries, and across many cultures, women have taken many roles in the rituals surrounding death. They have dressed bodies, cooked and cared for survivors and rendered other services. But, until ...