In our culture of constant connection, ideas and opinions are hard to escape. Topics once considered taboo are digested over drinks at the pub or added to the wall of social media noise. Yet when it ...

Preserving dead bodies for a living might seem weird or creepy or depressing. "But it's actually one of the most rewarding jobs in the world," says John "Jack" Mitchell IV, a sixth generation funeral ...

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 ...

HOUSTON (Gray News) – A licensed embalmer from Texas is facing charges after officials say she cut off a dead man’s penis in February with a scalpel after finding out he was a registered sex offender.

An embalmer is charged with abuse of a corpse after Texas police say she mutilated the body of a sex offender at a Houston funeral home. Screengrab from video shared to Facebook by Harris County ...

HOUSTON (KPRC/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A licensed embalmer was fired and could face legal trouble after she allegedly sliced off a dead sex offender's penis and stuffed it into his mouth. Houston ...

Before he begins the hours-long process of replacing the blood in a body with embalming fluid, James Bryant takes a moment to speak with the decedent on the table in front of him. If it’s a woman, he ...