The Fountain National Academy says local embalmer Claude Alfonso Merriman recently completed over 100 contact hours of specialised embalming and reconstructive training as part of its education ...

Old beauty products can make a difference — even in death, helping student embalmers learn the art of mortuary makeup, so that every farewell is dignified In the mornings, an embalming lab is ...

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 ...

Pasu Ng Kwai-lun, 36, is a soft-spoken young man. Fashionably dressed, he fixes his funky glasses as he speaks passionately about his craft – preserving dead bodies. Ng attended the Hong Kong Art ...

The B.C. government is making it easier to get into the funeral business. Apprenticeship training for embalmers and funeral directors is being streamlined with changes to the Cremation, Interment and ...