Definition of mortician
: undertaker 2
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the mortician will take care of all of the arrangements for the funeral
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Then came flight school, and building hours by transporting bodies to and from Fort Worth for a mortician; Bass was paid $5 an hour and flew a two-seat, D model Bonanza.
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Idaho mortician and Serenity Funeral Chapel owner Heidi Heil talks about the decline in traditional funerals, the rise in cheaper cremations and the need to build her business into event hosting.
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Perhaps the most affecting memory is that of civil rights leader Xernona Clayton, who recalls taking out her powder compact to disguise the clumsy work of the mortician on King's face, when his body lay in state at Spelman College.
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Playing Dead is described as a dysfunctional family dramedy about a mortician and his son whose lives are turned upside down when the woman who abandoned them 15 years ago returns and asks them to fake her death.
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Pulling from police and victim filings, forensic reports and newspaper clippings, Eatwell makes the case that Leslie Dillon, a bellhop, aspiring writer and former mortician’s assistant, was the killer.
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All indications are the former mortician's assistant will run again.
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Among the benefits to morticians: associating themselves with the Science Care brand and promoting free cremation on websites.
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To retrieve this newer style of pacemaker, on the other hand, the mortician must open the chest and make an incision into the heart itself.
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Definition of mortician for English Language Learners
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: a person whose job is to prepare dead people to be buried and to arrange and manage funerals
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