BALTIMORE — It’s almost like a washing machine, if you ask Joseph H. Brown. The casket-shaped metal tank sitting in Brown’s crematory in West Baltimore uses hot water, chemicals and a bit of agitation ...

When a family-run business is around for decades, people tend to assume the owners have been competently providing a valuable service. The case of the Lamb Funeral Home on Orange Grove Boulevard in ...

Caitlin Doughty says she was a “morbid” child growing up. So when she landed a job at a crematory in Oakland, California, at age 22, she became even more fascinated by death. “I suddenly was exposed ...

Working to break down taboos about death, mortician and bestselling author Caitlin Doughty visited Springfield Thursday in one of her first public events since the pandemic. Part of the ...

Caitlin Doughty has always been fascinated by death. “Today is Halloween. Finally it’s come,” read the only entry in the 8-year-old girl’s Hello Kitty diary. Now at 35, Doughty is a death awareness ...

Growing up, I watched Disney movies on repeat where a mermaid gave up her voice for a man and was taught I should be a damsel in distress until my Prince Charming rescued me. But I was sheltered from ...

“I will never get tired of saying that the dead body is not dangerous — unless Mom had Ebola,” says Caitlin Doughty, the mortician and self-described death activist and “funeral industry rabble-rouser ...

Caitlin Doughty says she was a “morbid” child growing up. So when she landed a job at a crematory in Oakland, California, at age 22, she became even more fascinated by death. “I suddenly was exposed ...