It does take a special mien and a particular build of character to carry the load a profession in death...

Bones are sort of death’s calling card, aren’t they?  And it doesn’t really matter whose bone, or which bone, or...

What happens when a transgender person dies? Does identity protection extend beyond life?

At some point, many funeral homes will be asked to reverse their usual process and “unbury” a corpse.  Disinterment, while...

The death process can be complex business; sometimes it isn’t even necessarily permanent. How is “death” defined, then?  What criteria need...

When Henrietta Duterte lost her husband Francis, a coffin builder, undertaker, and business owner, to consumption in 1858, she inadvertently...

New generations of artisans are keeping traditional rituals alive, protecting old ways of honoring the dead in ways and reflecting...

Necessity is the mother of invention, and the needs of the future of deathcare have been making known for some...

Deathcare work can be thankless.  Take, for example, the tending of the final needs of the typically undead.  It may...

In the spirit of discovery of the strange and possibly twisted, here’s a little profile of four of the most...