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
"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
Caitlin Doughty, a mortician, advocate and author, says funeral directors haven’t done enough to address contemporary Americans’ wishes.
From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2022
“Ms. O’Dell, why don’t we take care of this paperwork first?” the mortician said.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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