The hardest moments, Hollis says, are always when she’s caring for children or babies. She remembers one of her first ...

“You look so normal,” Sara says, sitting across from me, her hair in long, blond dreads. She’s the owner of a small funeral home in Venice, California, and she needs a new assistant – her last one ...

Melissa Schmidt handles body removal, embalming, preparation and casketing in her role as a funeral director on Long Island Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She covers ...

Colorado is the only state that does not require people who work in funeral homes to be licensed, but that could be changing. Then, addressing why Black pregnant and postpartum people in Colorado ...

Most people don't think about a funeral director until they need one – but Prince Edward Island is in short supply, and some in the profession are feeling burnt out.

DANVILLE — By the seventh grade, Tim Leek Sr. knew he wanted to take over the family funeral business someday. An essay assignment on careers made him realize he wanted to follow in his father's ...

The headlines were the stuff of nightmares. One Colorado funeral home owner let the body of a woman decompose for two years in a hearse parked outside a house he rented, while hoarding the cremated ...