Eileen Hollis is preparing to take over as director of her family's funeral home in Syracuse, N.Y. Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

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 ...

It’s been more than seven years since the FBI raided a Montrose funeral home, kicking off one of the more harrowing true-crime stories in recent American history. Investigators unspooled a macabre, ...

Hathaway Home for Funerals says services are changing as folks wish to remember their loved ones in less morbid ways. The business has outfitted its Somerset and Fairhaven locations with technology to ...

Seth Viddal is relatively new to his particular line of work. So is the line of work itself – at least the way Viddal does it. Tucked away in an industrial area of Arvada is The Natural Funeral, the ...

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 ...