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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Set in the sleepy rural town of Centerville, the cast includes Bill Murray as Chief Cliff Robertson, Adam Driver as the stoic Deputy Ronnie Peterson and Tilda Swinton as the town’s Harley-riding mortician, Zelda Winston.
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Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
Comedian Shuler King also brought the laughs with material about his day job as a mortician.
—Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 25 June 2025
Lucy likens her job to being a mortician or life insurance broker.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
In March, a continuing-ed event for morticians featured an appearance by Jennifer Muldowney, an Irish funeral planner who’s known as the Glam Reaper.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
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Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
Comedian Shuler King also brought the laughs with material about his day job as a mortician.
—Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 25 June 2025
Lucy likens her job to being a mortician or life insurance broker.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
In March, a continuing-ed event for morticians featured an appearance by Jennifer Muldowney, an Irish funeral planner who’s known as the Glam Reaper.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mortician
undertaker
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The funeral was closed casket—an uncommon thing for Catholics back then—because my mother did not want people to see the work the undertakers had to do to stitch my father back together.—
Jon Michael Varese,
The Atlantic,
28 Sep. 2025
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Meet Paddy Lynch — undertaker and caretaker of a quirky collection of Detroit businesses.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Mortician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortician. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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