as in undertaker
a person who manages funerals and prepares the dead for burial or cremation
the mortician will take care of all of the arrangements for the funeral
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Phaedra Parks, a lawyer turned reality star turned mortician turned reality star, has become the surprise fan favorite of the second season of Peacock’s dastardly game of deception The Traitors.
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Brian Moylan, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2024
Additionally, there are near-weekly classes on how to pin everything from tarantulas to beetles to moths, as well as Dungeons and Dragons sessions, tarot card readings, concerts and the stray round-table discussion with morticians.
—Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 23 May 2024
His company, which provides funeral services, has been buying up morticians in recent years, too, and wants to continue doing so.
—Verena Sepp, Fortune, 18 May 2024
However, morticians may be able to use other embalming methods to meet the requirements, said Andrew Dowell, a mortician at Lilly & Zeiler Funeral Home in Baltimore, which handles one to two repatriations each month.
—Maya Lora, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2024
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Brian Moylan, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2024
Additionally, there are near-weekly classes on how to pin everything from tarantulas to beetles to moths, as well as Dungeons and Dragons sessions, tarot card readings, concerts and the stray round-table discussion with morticians.
—Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 23 May 2024
His company, which provides funeral services, has been buying up morticians in recent years, too, and wants to continue doing so.
—Verena Sepp, Fortune, 18 May 2024
However, morticians may be able to use other embalming methods to meet the requirements, said Andrew Dowell, a mortician at Lilly & Zeiler Funeral Home in Baltimore, which handles one to two repatriations each month.
—Maya Lora, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2024
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“Mortician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortician. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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