Eileen Hollis is preparing to take over as director of her family's funeral home in Syracuse, N.Y. Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Melissa Schmidt handles body removal, embalming, preparation and casketing in her role as a funeral director on Long Island Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She covers ...

Not many seventh-graders know what they want to become when they get older, and fewer still might think it involves the funeral home industry. Frankie Bennett — who with her husband, Jason Bennett, ...

Colorado is the only state that does not require people who work in funeral homes to be licensed, but that could be changing. Then, addressing why Black pregnant and postpartum people in Colorado ...

Rows of coffins line a university classroom in the South Korean port city of Busan, ready for use in training the funeral ...