Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I was a funeral director and embalmer for 11 years. I learned a lot about our bodies and death by doing my job. After an autopsy, ...

An Embalmer and Postmortem Reconstruction Specialist has opened up about his mindset towards the 'fear of death' and what he wants for his body.

ALTAMONT — In Jim Bishop’s book “The Day Kennedy Was Shot,” Edwin Bates Stroble from Altamont is identified as a member of the embalming team for President John F. Kennedy. The book reports that ...

The Embalmers Anatomical Aid published by the Western Publishing Company is a portfolio of chromolithographs of the human form including the anatomical systems of the head, eye, ear, torso, muscles, ...

MANILA, Philippines — His work begins when someone dies. The dead is brought to him and laid on a steel table in a fluorescent-lit, refrigerator-cold room reeking of formalin, where he prepares the ...

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 ...

I was a funeral director and embalmer for 11 years. I learned a lot about our bodies and death by doing my job. After an autopsy, brains usually are put back in the belly of the cadaver. When I tell ...