Dr. Damon de la Cruz is a licensed funeral director and embalmer, as well as the Director of Education at Frigid Fluid. With over a decade of experience teaching funeral service, he combines hands-on expertise with academic insight. A PhD-trained molecular biologist, Damon translates complex science into practical knowledge for the funeral profession. He is the author of Turning Art Into Science: Chemistry for Funeral Service, an international speaker, and the developer of several funeral service smartphone applications, bringing both scholarly rigor and real-world innovation to the field.
Learning Lab: Seeing Is Healing: The Neuroscience of Grief, the Data on Viewing, and the Role of Embalming