undertaker
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A local undertaker said the embalmed remains of the Iranian sailors were being sent back in sealed boxes.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
“I had so much metal inside me, I thought I wouldn’t need a burial when I died—the undertaker could just pop me in the recycling bin,” he quips in “Last Rites.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Callum Flannelly is a painfully shy undertaker in Ireland who will be disinherited if he doesn’t marry by the time he’s 35.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024
Her mother died on 24 November 2021, but it was May 2022 before the undertaker said she could collect the ashes.
From BBC • May 24, 2024
Sometimes I think he became an undertaker because it was easier for him to spend time with the dead than the living.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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