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Fellow morticians were also alarmed at the uptick in the number of bodies cremated by the Lamb Funeral Home, a respected, family-run establishment and pillar of the Southern California mortuary business for generations.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2025

In keeping with her mother’s request, the morticians wrapped the body in cotton — no embalmment — and put it in a pine box.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2023

Someone joked that morticians always had money and she’d thought about her interests—architecture, computers, landscape design.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2022

Ordinarily, a decedent is released from the state medical examiner’s office within a few days of a death, allowing morticians time to properly prepare for services.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2022

The Catholic calendar in my bedroom was printed by W. F. Gormley and Sons, morticians.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez