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

I learned that in August 2023 from a mortician preparing to cremate my mother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

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

Velia held a flashlight, while Juanita, who had brought a pair of Papá’s old jeans, one of his dress shirts, and his cowboy boots, dressed the body with the reverence of a dedicated mortician.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

From gravediggers to morticians, funeral directors to coroners, these workers carry deep psychic wounds of war — and have few others who can relate to them.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2022

It put out a plea for donations including tissues and cleaning supplies and got help from morticians from outside Uvalde.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2022

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

The head of the Texas Funeral Directors Association brought in an extra funeral coach along with other morticians — some experts at the art of facial reconstruction — to assist.

From Washington Post ● May 30, 2022

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

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez