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
"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
I learned that in August 2023 from a mortician preparing to cremate my mother.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 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
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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