A death can feel catastrophic and overwhelming, not only for mourners who loved the deceased person but also for anyone outside the loss who understands the pain it has caused. That is one of the most ...

Upwards of 2.8 million people die every year in the United States. As a funeral director who heads a university mortuary science program, I can tell you that while each individual’s life experiences ...

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio College students graduating this semester are worried about the program’s future and how any changes could impact their classmates who are still working towards their degrees ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (KABB) – A college in Texas is breaking new ground as it becomes the first school in the country to house a fully functioning mortuary. The mortuary science program at San Antonio ...

Mortuary science students at San Antonio College are now the first in the nation who will be able to work in the field without leaving campus. SAC opened a full-service mortuary on campus at 1819 N.

GALESBURG, Ill. -- The backgrounds of students in the Mortuary Science program at Carl Sandburg College are as diverse as the curriculum. On any given day, displaced factory workers from Iowa, an Iraq ...

SAN ANTONIO — Another first for San Antonio College, which opened a new training facility for the death-care industry. The college is the first in the country to open a customer-facing mortuary on a ...