Seeing a dead body is scary. I first saw one when I was 5 years old at a local priest’s funeral. My dad insisted we take a closer look. My knees were shaking as we approached the rubbery, ...

Before she started attracting fans as a roaring metal vocalist in Butcher Babies, Carla Harvey was connecting with mourning families as a mortuary assistant. It’s an undertaking she was almost as ...

Mumbai: On Thursday, Dr Gunvantrai Ganpatlal Parikh, a 101-year-old freedom fighter, socialist, and Gandhian who pledged to serve the people until his final breath, did so even in death. Honouring a ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The history of embalming in America is deeply rooted in both necessity and cultural ...

New facility provides efficient services for body preservation and repatriation Major General Abdullah Mubarak bin Amer, Commander-in-Chief of Sharjah Police, inaugurating the new embalming centre.

For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming methods differ, but not all of them are studied equally well. In a first report ...

The pope's physician tried a method that didn't take internal preservation into account Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has spent 20 years as a reporter for PEOPLE. She covers ...

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ROME — Ahead of his lying-in-state, Pope Francis’s body was made ready to withstand Rome’s warm spring weather with a temporary embalming and a touch of make-up, an expert told AFP. The body of the 88 ...

The body of the 88-year-old will be on display for three days in Saint Peter's Basilica Chief Rabbi of Rome Riccardo Di Segni as he pay his respect to late Pope Francis in the Chapel of Santa Marta in ...