undertaker
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A local undertaker said the embalmed remains of the Iranian sailors were being sent back in sealed boxes.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
“I had so much metal inside me, I thought I wouldn’t need a burial when I died—the undertaker could just pop me in the recycling bin,” he quips in “Last Rites.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
The single, folded sheet lists just 90 names, mostly businesses near historic downtown such as liveries, saloons, physicians, mills, druggists and the local undertaker.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025
"In the next day's paper, there was an article on how CalMac had loaded the wrong coffin onto the vessel - no mention of the undertaker," he recalled.
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2024
They waited until we reached the place where Mr. Turner, the undertaker, had set up a little shade tent.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
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