SAN ANTONIO, Texas (KABB) – A college in Texas is breaking new ground as it becomes the first school in the country to house a fully functioning mortuary. The mortuary science program at San Antonio ...

A funeral makeup artist prepares the dead for viewing by the living during an open-casket funeral. The intent is to make the deceased appear as they did in life. Workers who cosmeticize the deceased ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) - SIU recently acquired the first university-housed crematory for its mortuary science and funeral services bachelor’s degree program. According to a release from SIU ...

When thinking about what she wanted to do with her life, April Gentling believed she was going to go into law enforcement. Now a first-year student in the University of Minnesota’s Program of Mortuary ...

A Senate bill headed to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s desk would close a loophole in current law that technically prohibits mortuary science students in Michigan from practicing embalming - a requirement ...

Virtual Reality labs in the University of Minnesota Health Science Library allow students in mortuary science to explore end-of-life situations. Professor of Mortuary Sciences Janet McGee has required ...

With New York City funeral homes overwhelmed by the coronavirus, a professor from an upstate town has been transporting bodies so families don’t have to wait weeks for cremation services.

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- A young woman in a hoodie is hunched over her laptop, brow furrowed. To her right, a fellow student flips through a binder, carefully marking out sections in yellow ...

Facing impending layoffs at his manufacturing plant, Alan Willoughby left to seek financial security selling automobiles at a used-car lot. Then the economy hit the skids, and he struggled to make ...