mortician

Example Sentences

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"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

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

At 12, she planned to become a mortician, but in college, she took a class on grief and loss and decided to go into long-term and hospice care.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2022

There was a group called mortician bees whose pitiful job it was to rake the dead bees out of the hive and keep everything on the clean side.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd