In light of Pope Francis’ death on April 21, Catholic authorities are preparing the much-anticipated process to decide upon his successor. However, many people are wondering about a more burning ...

A Fresno couple is suing the Clovis Funeral Chapel for allegedly mishandling their son’s embalming, causing the body to give off a foul odor during the funeral service. The odor was so pungent that ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The CEO of the medical training facility MedtoMarket is accused of providing human remains for unauthorized experimentation using embalming fluid, according to the Austin Police ...

The bodies of all types of people probably come through Houston’s Memorial Mortuary and Crematory. However, when the remains of a sex offender came across the embalming table, one mortuary assistant ...

Pennsylvania law includes a cause of action for intentional "interference with a dead body," but has not yet adopted a cause of action for negligent interference with a corpse, a Mercer County judge ...

A Texas woman has been charged with abusing a corpse after she allegedly used a scalpel to castrate the body of a registered sex offender last month, officials said. Amber Paige Laudermilk, 34, was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The CEO of the medical ...

Practices of embalming mummies differed across cultures and regions, with experts having studied a plethora of ways. Though they were analyzed at large, not every practice was known to researchers or ...