A woman became a funeral director to overcome her fear of dying and says death has taught her to stop comparing herself to others. Melissa Schmidt, 34, used to get “tunnel vision” at the idea of dying ...

Mimi Mythen is known online as "Mimi the Mortician," growing popular for her content depicting her studies in mortuary school At 19, she was the youngest graduate in the history of Florida State ...

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 ...

Victor M. Sweeney, a licensed funeral director and mortician, gives a tour of a funeral home in Minnesota. From the intricate processes and tools used to embalm a body to the "selection room" filled ...

From the moment Tyrone Timms pulled up outside his father’s Arizona home on Veterans Day 2019, he knew something was wrong. John Gause, a Vietnam War veteran, hadn’t picked up the phone. The blinds ...

A Texas mortuary owner is accused of conducting gruesome experiments on corpses, chopping off "heads, arms and spines" to test the impact of embalming fluids, officials said. Adeline Ngan-Binh Bui, ...