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 ...

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 ...

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 ...