Lighter Side

Observations of guillotine victims’ faces by medical personnel and witnesses to the moment of decapitation led to doubts about the...

Welcome to the two-hundred-and-fifth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #205, where we're serving up White Powder & Peg...

Welcome to September! Last night, the first NFL game kicked off, so I think we’re good to declare that it’s...

Ossuaries can be, of course, elaborate and ornate places, sites of unique tribute to the deceased.

Welcome to the two-hundred-and-fourth edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #204, where we're serving up Two Mysteries & Climate...

Y’all! This marks the end of August as we turn the corner into September. August was fantastic and was our...

You might actually feel that more removals happen between midnight and 8:00 a.m. than at any other time. You wouldn’t...

Welcome to the two-hundred-and-third edition of Morticians’ Monday Morning Mashup, 4M #203, where we're serving up Funeral Songs & Apart-Hotels!

Gruesome tales go back centuries—exhumed coffins with bloodied scratch marks, mangled fingers, even corpses found entirely outside their caskets.

Whether or not you believe in saints, it’s hard not to feel a little pride in knowing your profession has...