Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I'm a first-generation funeral director. The industry is facing a labor shortage and young women are its future. Allyse Worland is ...

Dame Caroline Dinenage MP and bereaved families have called for regulation of the funeral industry after the 'most shocking' ...

Technology helps make the way we live more efficient, but it’s changing the way we grieve too. Apps that assist in planning a funeral and biodegradable urns are part of the growing death tech industry ...

NEW YORK -- Death and taxes, the saying goes, are the only certainties in life. If so, funeral companies like Houston's Service Corporation International might look like a sure bet to investors. The ...

In the past several years, Colorado has seen several scandals in the industry. Notably, owners of the Sunset Mesa Funeral Home in Montrose, a mother and daughter, were indicted for selling body parts.

Colorado finally aligned itself with the rest of the country, enacting legislation to further regulate the state’s infamously troubled funeral home industry. Governor Jared Polis signed two bills into ...

All the trappings are the same — business brochures, product displays, free pens and coffee mugs imprinted with company names, tote bags emblazoned with corporate logos. Been to one convention, you've ...

Minister Alison McGovern said the government would decide by the summer whether statutory regulation of the industry should ...

This post was co-authored by Shontae Cameron and Robert T. Muller, Ph.D. “When my husband died, I was overwhelmed with emotion. There was this intense amount of fear that death would strike again—that ...

Allyse Worland is a first-generation funeral director licensed in Indiana and Kentucky. More young women are now enrolling in mortuary schools as the industry faces a labor shortage. Millennials and ...