mortician
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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
Workers lifted a tarp for privacy as John Hill, who shared an ancestor with the general, helped a mortician gather the remains in a body bag.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2022
I will always be grateful to the parish priest who forced a mortician to remove an elaborate arrangement of flowers from a coffin: ‘Don’t hide it!’
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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