Halloween enthusiasts are seeking "real" scares at a former psychiatric hospital and funeral home. Eloise Asylum outside ...

Now, New South Wales has become the first Australian state to pass legislation allowing another option: “human composting”, ...

A funeral home in Jacksonville, Florida, has been turned into a hotel where people can spend the night… if they dare. The Raven still has its original casket elevator, and one of the guest rooms even ...

Embalming is one of the most common options for temporarily preserving bodies after death – but what exactly does it entail?

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The widow and two children of a South Gate man allege that a Montebello funeral home brutally botched their loved one’s embalming, depriving the family of a meaningful final farewell. The mortuary ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Wanyue Zhao and her colleagues used volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to analyze the composition of scents given off by mummies ...

Anyone who has stood near an ancient Egyptian mummy notices a persistent musty odor. Researchers once linked this smell to age and decay. New chemical work shows a different cause. The odor forms from ...

The Wickyards, a former funeral home turned artist's studio, is said to be haunted by shadow figures, a ghostly woman, and ...

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.