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, ...

Funeral plans have been announced for a man who dedicated much of his life to the people of Randolph County and one family in ...