It takes nearly two years and over 30 bodies to complete an embalming course at The College of Funeral Sciences. But it's an industry that can't stop you putting a brass plate on your door and ...

All embalmers who work at licensed funeral parlours will have to be registered They must also attend a basic infection control course The National Environment Agency has received feedback on 4 cases ...

It wasn’t exactly a fate worse than death, but Pablo Dayao had always felt that he was meant to do a job most people avoid, even abhor. Call it destiny, he said, of his job as licensed embalmer at the ...

As an eight-year-old, Kevin Sinclair would fetch the Hoover from the chapel beneath the family flat, see dead bodies in coffins and carry on. "They were just sleeping," he says casually. "That's what ...

For years a hairdresser, Janet Officer has now changed career to use her skills as an embalmer. Women's Editor Sarah Foster speaks to Janet and her boss and finds out why they feel their work is a ...

Caring for the dead isn't your usual vocation, but Blenheim woman Pip Wratt enjoys her time with the deceased. Reporter Jennifer Eder discovers why being an embalmer was Pip's first choice of career. ...

Based on a manual recently discovered in a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus, University of Copenhagen Egyptologist Sofie Schiødt has been able to help reconstruct the embalming process used to prepare ...

Embalmers and coroners step in immediately when a death is reported. Great care and respect must be shown in handling the body and determining or verifying the suspected cause of death. The median ...

She treats her eight-hour job both as a science and an art—but one with an unforgiving “deadline.” On a typical workday, May Cardenas, a 28-year-old biology graduate of the University of the ...

It takes nearly two years and over 30 bodies to complete an embalming course at The College of Funeral Sciences. But it's an industry that can't stop you putting a brass plate on your door and ...