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embalmer

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as in undertaker

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Recent Examples of embalmer Büchi approaches classical music not like an embalmer with a corpse but as a surgeon with a patient, taking a scalpel to the vestigial organs. — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 13 Mar. 2026

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undertaker

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The post-credits scene begins in the mortuary where Will’s funeral was held, when an undertaker and her daughter walk by shelves of urns containing deceased people’s ashes that weren’t picked up by families.

— Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
His mother, Mary Ann, came from a prosperous family of New Jersey undertakers, and taught in New York City’s public schools.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026

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