funeral director

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Hiemer said he and his funeral director spent months trying to persuade Berlin politicians to let him return his mother’s remains for burial in her hometown.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

He’d lost his job as a funeral director and was living out of a van, draining his savings, and now he found himself stranded in the desert.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

Over the past decade, she has been an embalmer, funeral director, hospice worker, and end-of-life therapist.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

There are currently no legal requirements about how and where bodies should be stored, and no qualifications are needed to set up as a funeral director.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

But like the funeral director and the car salesman and the life- insurance company, the real-estate agent has also seen her advantage eroded by the Internet.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt