With the government declaring formaldehyde a carcinogen, these might be boom times for alternative embalming fluids — if it weren’t for the so-called everlasting effect funeral directors stake their ...

Embalmers and coroners step in immediately when a death is reported. Great care and respect must be shown in handling the body and determining or verifying the suspected cause of death. The median ...

Alexandre silently moves around the body. He lifts it up, turns it over and back again. When he handles the scalpel, his movements are precise and calculated. Far from being an assassin, he’s an ...

Several embalmers and a pathologist in North America and the United Kingdom have reported a rise in irregular, hardened blood clots. “They’re just not normal blood clots. It’s like a tissue, not a ...

Several Austin-area funeral home embalmers say it's common practice to pour human blood from corpses down the drain, a procedure that Austin Water officials admit they were unaware was occurring and ...