A funeral director has revealed what it feels like to embalm a friend. Eileen Hollis, who assists her father, Charlie Hollis, in running the family’s Hollis Funeral Home has built up an incredible 773 ...

ROME – With the passing of Pope John Paul II (search), a Rome family expected a call from the Vatican to embalm his body. The tradition, carried down from father to son, has for decades fallen to the ...

A young woman who was declared dead at her suburban Detroit home opened her eyes at a funeral home as she was about to embalmed, the fire department and a lawyer said Monday. The doctor "pronounced ...

The mummified body of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun spontaneously combusted, scientists say. A fragment of flesh from the boy pharaoh, whose tomb was discovered in 1922, was tested by researchers who ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- A Huntsville mother claims some mourners were forced to leave her son's open-casket funeral visitation last month because Nelms Funeral Home failed to embalm the body. In a ...

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LONDON – A French magistrate denied Tuesday that she authorized the embalming of Princess Diana's body, or that anyone from the British Embassy in Paris had discussed embalming with her. A French ...

CAMDEN – A Williamstown woman has sued a funeral home here, saying she lost the opportunity for a final goodbye with her late brother due to a delay in embalming him. Ashkeya Pratt-Williams filed the ...

A GROUP of medical students fled in horror after a "dead woman" they were about to embalm suddenly opened her eyes, got up and walked out of the morgue, it is reported. The anatomy students from the ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — The Venezuelan government's plan to embalm the remains of the late President Hugo Chávez and place them in a glass case for eternal viewing may have to be discarded, the country's ...

After 25 years of—forgive us—obscurity, Embalm’s remastered classic Prelude To Obscurity is being re-released by 20 Buck Spin. The record was re-released by Arthur Rizk and will officially be ...