undertaker
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The polished silver name-plate on the white box, so small it only needs one undertaker to carry it, reads Baby Auckland, a name given to him by the authorities.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
A local undertaker said the embalmed remains of the Iranian sailors were being sent back in sealed boxes.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
On Wednesday, former undertaker Robert Bush appeared at Hull Crown Court after an investigation into human remains found at his premises.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
“I had so much metal inside me, I thought I wouldn’t need a burial when I died—the undertaker could just pop me in the recycling bin,” he quips in “Last Rites.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Mama wasted no time in packing up their things once the undertaker had left with Aunt Rose’s body.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
Now undertakers are offering dedicated spaces to families.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
Every autumn, as leaves turn from green to auburn and float to the ground, we turn into a nation of outdoor undertakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
“The Mortician” is not the cable network’s first series about a family of undertakers operating a Pasadena funeral home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2025
Modern Western culture caricatures vultures as undertakers, grim harbingers of death and hardly ideal images of maternal love.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
He brought rocks in wheelbarrows for undertakers to bury and carried away the deceased.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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