mortician

At a makeshift morgue in Khartoum, engineer turned mortician Ali Gebbai clicked through a spreadsheet of the dead.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

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

It was her public face the mortician had designed with his dubious art.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

During a previous spike in gold prices, Clark said, people were asking morticians for permission to pull gold teeth from the mouths of dead family members.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025

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

The head of the Texas Funeral Directors Association brought in an extra funeral coach along with other morticians — some experts at the art of facial reconstruction — to assist.

From Washington Post ● May 30, 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