As a retired librarian for Davidson County Schools, Lynn Fritts has years of investigative experience tracking down answers ...

Everybody dies. But not everybody is embalmed at Frank E. Campbell, a discreet mortuary on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

As many as 800 families across the country who patronized a Carlinville funeral home may never know if the remains on their ...

The bereaved lit incense and eventually broke down in tears for their beloved pet frog, which had passed away after two years ...

but will still need a vessel — like an urn — to contain the ashes. Visitation/viewing fee: This fee covers the cost of renting a funeral home parlor and the cost of staffing the event.

The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business using hundreds of unclaimed corpses. It ...

In one of those cases, a woman prayed and talked to what she thought was her mother’s ashes ... funeral homes, left them in the local hospital morgues for weeks, and mislabeled bodies and human ...

In the immediate future, Trottier says some of his daughter's ashes will be spread at the family's lake, the balance kept at home in an urn that will be made by a family friend. "She's coming home ...

Paul Trottier picked up his daughter's cremated remains from the funeral home ... of his daughter's ashes will be spread at the family's lake, the balance kept at home in an urn that will be ...