Science might be a high stakes game, but a project's success or failure rarely determines whether the researchers undertaking it will live or die. There are, of course, some exceptions to this; say, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...