I learned a lot about our bodies and death by doing my job. After an autopsy, brains usually are put back in the belly of the cadaver. When I tell people I worked as a funeral director and embalmer ...

The good luck part, only an embalmer would understand. The rest I owe in a great measure to one of the best embalmers I’ve ever watched. He’s the same guy you mixed fluid for. He taught me well. “Two ...

The Embalmers Anatomical Aid published by the Western Publishing Company is a portfolio of chromolithographs of the human form including the anatomical systems of the head, eye, ear, torso, muscles, ...

MANILA, Philippines — His work begins when someone dies. The dead is brought to him and laid on a steel table in a fluorescent-lit, refrigerator-cold room reeking of formalin, where he prepares the ...

I was a funeral director and embalmer for 11 years. I learned a lot about our bodies and death by doing my job. After an autopsy, brains usually are put back in the belly of the cadaver. When I tell ...