In most parts of the world, embalming a body is rare, and in some cultures it is forbidden or frowned on. But in this country, embalming has largely become a routine part of the rituals of death. In a ...

Before the Civil War, embalming was performed mainly to preserve the body for the purpose of medical studies. There were no specific guidelines for the embalmer. Embalming was performed by those with ...

Liam Payne’s body is being prepared for transfer back to his native United Kingdom from Argentina. A source confirmed to Us Weekly that Payne’s remains would be transferred to the British Cemetery in ...

In light of Pope Francis’ death on April 21, Catholic authorities are preparing the much-anticipated process to decide upon his successor. However, many people are wondering about a more burning ...

ROME – With the passing of Pope John Paul II (search), a Rome family expected a call from the Vatican to embalm his body. The tradition, carried down from father to son, has for decades fallen to the ...

For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming methods differ, but not all of them are studied equally well. In a first report ...

A Florida man has filed a lawsuit charging that mortuary-science students at Lynn University, in Boca Raton, embalmed his wife’s body without his permission. The lawsuit accuses the university of ...

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT With hundreds of thousands of Catholics expected to flock to the Vatican to see the late Pope Francis lying in state, the preparation of his body for viewing has been hugely ...

From the moment Tyrone Timms pulled up outside his father’s Arizona home on Veterans Day 2019, he knew something was wrong. John Gause, a Vietnam War veteran, hadn’t picked up the phone. The blinds ...

Two bags of drugs were discovered inside the abdomen of a dead body by an undertaker who was embalming it for a funeral, an inquest heard. Joanne Urmston was preparing the corpse when she stumbled ...