mortician

Gebbai the mortician spoke with steely-eyed resolve, but it began to crack when he remembered one young man.

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

During a previous spike in gold prices, Clark said, people were asking morticians for permission to pull gold teeth from the mouths of dead family members.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025

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

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

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2022

Among those mentioned: accountants, architects, counselors, dental hygienists, court reporters, locksmiths, morticians, midwives, plumbers and therapists.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022

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

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez