funeral director

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The night before her send-off at Gwent Crematorium, in Croesyceiliog, funeral director Kirsty Sailes bought 72 of the beef and tomato variety for mourners.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

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

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

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

We started quiet, but soon exploded, as the kindly funeral director pretended not to listen and our mother just stared at us implacably, through the fog of her own pain.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama