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

"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

The cheeks had fallen back to the ears and a solicitous mortician had put lipstick on the black mouth.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Fellow morticians were also alarmed at the uptick in the number of bodies cremated by the Lamb Funeral Home, a respected, family-run establishment and pillar of the Southern California mortuary business for generations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2025

From gravediggers to morticians, funeral directors to coroners, these workers carry deep psychic wounds of war — and have few others who can relate to them.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2022

Someone joked that morticians always had money and she’d thought about her interests—architecture, computers, landscape design.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2022

Ordinarily, a decedent is released from the state medical examiner’s office within a few days of a death, allowing morticians time to properly prepare for services.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2022

The Catholic calendar in my bedroom was printed by W. F. Gormley and Sons, morticians.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez