undertaker

A local undertaker said the embalmed remains of the Iranian sailors were being sent back in sealed boxes.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

A pilgrimage to the oldest concrete road in America detours to meeting a descendant of the undertaker who embalmed Chef Boyardee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026

Doing so was the role of the undertaker, Van Der Zee explains, though the photographer had his own aesthetic duties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

“The situation is really bad. There are no goods, no food or fuel coming through. We’re starting to see items going missing from the shelves,” says Jiries al-Alam, the town undertaker.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2024

When the undertaker came back with the deed, Katie, remembering something her mother had said fourteen years ago read it slowly and carefully.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Now undertakers are offering dedicated spaces to families.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

Metz, chief executive of Meine Erde, has spent the past five-plus years crisscrossing Germany, trying to persuade lawmakers and medics, undertakers and religious authorities to approve human composting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

HH: That is so true, and so necessary for fundamental change, because we need new undertakers, new reapers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

Like undertakers and garbage haulers, obstetricians see the nitty-gritty of human existence that can be ghastly and grotesque.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2023

So they are airborne undertakers, in a way.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall