mortician

At a makeshift morgue in Khartoum, engineer turned mortician Ali Gebbai clicked through a spreadsheet of the dead.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

She trained as a forensic pathologist and worked as a mortician in Mexico City.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024

The once unidentified man was in jail accused of being a thief, and he was accidentally mummified by a mortician experimenting with new embalming techniques.

From Reuters ● Oct. 7, 2023

Workers lifted a tarp for privacy as John Hill, who shared an ancestor with the general, helped a mortician gather the remains in a body bag.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2022

“He made Stinky Sanders, the mortician, the richest man in town, Colonel,” Hobie Rawls said while pouring coffee into Bull’s cup from a steaming glass globe.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

In keeping with her mother’s request, the morticians wrapped the body in cotton — no embalmment — and put it in a pine box.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023

A fully trad, normie suit pegs you as a lawyer, a finance bro or one of the morticians from the HBO show “Six Feet Under.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2022

Someone joked that morticians always had money and she’d thought about her interests—architecture, computers, landscape design.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2022

Ordinarily, a decedent is released from the state medical examiner’s office within a few days of a death, allowing morticians time to properly prepare for services.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2022

The Catholic calendar in my bedroom was printed by W. F. Gormley and Sons, morticians.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez