Today, from his Office at Legacy Funerals in Hamilton New Zealand Embalmers Association President, Jordan Goss expressed his delight at news that a Diploma course in Embalming has been approved by ...

As an eight-year-old, Kevin Sinclair would fetch the Hoover from the chapel beneath the family flat, see dead bodies in coffins and carry on. "They were just sleeping," he says casually. "That's what ...

She treats her eight-hour job both as a science and an art—but one with an unforgiving “deadline.” On a typical workday, May Cardenas, a 28-year-old biology graduate of the University of the ...

For years a hairdresser, Janet Officer has now changed career to use her skills as an embalmer. Women's Editor Sarah Foster speaks to Janet and her boss and finds out why they feel their work is a ...

Caring for the dead isn't your usual vocation, but Blenheim woman Pip Wratt enjoys her time with the deceased. Reporter Jennifer Eder discovers why being an embalmer was Pip's first choice of career. ...

Hannah Barr is a bright, bubbly 22 year old, who has turned a morbid fascination into a career. Next month she will graduate from New Zealand's only embalming school after working as a trainee at a ...