mortician
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At a makeshift morgue in Khartoum, engineer turned mortician Ali Gebbai clicked through a spreadsheet of the dead.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Lucy likens her job to being a mortician or life insurance broker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
"We go from service to lifesaving to mortician, dealing with dead bodies and then doing crowd control," the 40-year-old says.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2025
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
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
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
Someone joked that morticians always had money and she’d thought about her interests—architecture, computers, landscape design.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2022
The Catholic calendar in my bedroom was printed by W. F. Gormley and Sons, morticians.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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