"I have a second-hand story from a funeral director friend." "She did lovely makeup on a younger lady who was in bad shape.

Some betrayals don't just steal money. They steal peace. They shatter the very foundation of human decency, leaving a wound ...

This story was produced in collaboration with Esquire. The mother parks by a bureaucratic brick building in downtown Houston on a January day in 2024. She takes the elevator to the third floor. She is ...

ALBANY - A risk of misidentified corpses, shoddy efforts to check for signs of life, and poorly monitored embalming rooms are among the major gaps in New York's oversight of the funeral industry, ...