A return to dust and ashes is inevitable but how human remains can make the transition is up for debate in Connecticut, with legalization of terramation again before the legislature. Former Rep.

Dissecting cadavers is a mainstay of medical education, but it relies on donors and poses ethical and other challenges. Roshni Shastri and Crispin Wiles argue that modern teaching has moved on, but ...

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A Texas embalmer allegedly abused the corpse of a sex offender by removing the dead man's penis and placing it in the mouth of the dead body. It occurred in the presence of a witness who, according to ...

After learning the decedent 58-year-old Charles Roy Rodriguez was a registered sex offender, Laudermilk allegedly took a ...

Amber Paige Laudermilk allegedly used a scalpel to castrate the body at a Houston funeral home and told a witness, “You ...

After that, court documents say Laudermilk "stuffed" his genitals in his mouth. She was in the presence of an embalming ...

Six people are facing multiple charges after an anti-human trafficking operation in Morgan County, according to the sheriff's office. The Morgan County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation ...

It's not every day you hear police officers discovered human teeth buried in someone's yard and they say there's a "logical explanation." However, in Hondo, a town about 40 miles west of San ...

She started to find death “fascinating” and “intriguing” and went to mortuary school – where she learned everything from funeral history, anatomy to embalming. Now she spends her days ...

Colourful ceremonies featuring song and dance, petal-strewn pathways and the roasting of specially-selected pigs accompanied the emotional repatriation of 16 human skulls to Papua New Guinea last ...