mortician

Example Sentences

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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

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

There was a group called mortician bees whose pitiful job it was to rake the dead bees out of the hive and keep everything on the clean side.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd