Two years ago, Dayni suffered the sudden and unexpected loss of her mother, Janice. The shock of her passing was traumatic ...

They looked far off, and with a funeral the next day, there was still plenty to do. A woman needed to be prepared for the service, a careful embalming task that Ms. Alba began around 3:30 a.m. in ...

I initially knew nothing about embalming. Previously, I used to volunteer to wash the bodies of deceased Muslim women at Ihsan Casket. “Then one day, my friend who runs an international funeral ...

Though in prior generations it was rare for women to enter the mortuary ... and its chemistry classes might focus on embalming fluids, says Poul Lemasters, a funeral director, embalmer and ...