If you are pursuing your degree in mortuary science, you may benefit from working in the funeral service industry while attending school. Not only will a job in funeral care provide stable income, it ...

From mastering facial reconstruction to understanding pathology, mortuary students learn to combine science, artistry, and compassion. Training blends anatomy, embalming chemistry, and restorative art ...

A funeral makeup artist prepares the dead for viewing by the living during an open-casket funeral. The intent is to make the deceased appear as they did in life. Workers who cosmeticize the deceased ...

Facing impending layoffs at his manufacturing plant, Alan Willoughby left to seek financial security selling automobiles at a used-car lot. Then the economy hit the skids, and he struggled to make ...

As American industries struggle to fill plentiful job vacancies in a tight labor market, there's at least one type of work where interest seems to be flourishing: funeral services. Colleges ...

With New York City funeral homes overwhelmed by the coronavirus, a professor from an upstate town has been transporting bodies so families don’t have to wait weeks for cremation services.

When thinking about what she wanted to do with her life, April Gentling believed she was going to go into law enforcement. Now a first-year student in the University of Minnesota’s Program of Mortuary ...

Almost 15,000 New Yorkers have died due to complications from COVID-19. Most of them were from the New York City area. That’s overwhelmed funeral homes and crematories in the city. A mortuary science ...

You can’t help but get a warm and fuzzy feeling around Winifred “Winnie” Valentine — even at a funeral. Standing about a foot tall, the blue-eyed ...

For a woman whose business is death and dying, mortuary science professor Jody LaCourt has a surprisingly sunny disposition. LaCourt, a University alumna, teaches restorative art and embalming theory ...