For a woman whose business is death and dying, mortuary science professor Jody LaCourt has a surprisingly sunny disposition. LaCourt, a University alumna, teaches restorative art and embalming theory ...
Facing impending layoffs at his manufacturing plant, Alan Willoughby left to seek financial security selling automobiles at a used-car lot. Then the economy hit the skids, and he struggled to make ...
Ivy Tech Community College will train students for a profession that's, well, to die for. No, not another degree in technology or biosciences. Try mortuary sciences. As this and other postsecondary ...
Amy Cunningham, a licensed funeral director in Brooklyn, says she appreciates the opportunity to create beautiful and ...
When thinking about what she wanted to do with her life, April Gentling believed she was going to go into law enforcement. Now a first-year student in the University of Minnesota’s Program of Mortuary ...
Facing impending layoffs at his manufacturing plant, Alan Willoughby left to seek financial security selling automobiles at a used-car lot. Then the economy hit the skids, and he struggled to make ...
A funeral makeup artist prepares the dead for viewing by the living during an open-casket funeral. The intent is to make the deceased appear as they did in life. Workers who cosmeticize the deceased ...
SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- A young woman in a hoodie is hunched over her laptop, brow furrowed. To her right, a fellow student flips through a binder, carefully marking out sections in yellow ...
Facing layoffs at his manufacturing plant, Alan Willoughby left to seek financial security selling automobiles at a used-car lot. Then the economy hit the skids, and he struggled to make ends meet.
A Senate bill headed to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s desk would close a loophole in current law that technically prohibits mortuary science students in Michigan from practicing embalming - a requirement ...
BOSTON – Facing impending layoffs at his manufacturing plant, Alan Willoughby left to seek financial security selling automobiles at a used-car lot. Then the economy hit the skids, and he struggled to ...