Eileen Hollis is preparing to take over as director of her family's funeral home in Syracuse, N.Y. Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Colorado is the only state that does not require people who work in funeral homes to be licensed, but that could be changing. Then, addressing why Black pregnant and postpartum people in Colorado ...

It’s been more than seven years since the FBI raided a Montrose funeral home, kicking off one of the more harrowing true-crime stories in recent American history. Investigators unspooled a macabre, ...

DANVILLE — By the seventh grade, Tim Leek Sr. knew he wanted to take over the family funeral business someday. An essay assignment on careers made him realize he wanted to follow in his father's ...

St. Louis native Shamari Jackson began studying mortuary science after her boyfriend was fatally shot. Now she uses her work ...