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
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
It was her public face the mortician had designed with his dubious art.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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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