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What (who) is mortician - definition

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVED IN THE BUSINESS OF FUNERAL RITES

Undertaker; Funeral services; Funeral Director; Mortician; Morticians; Funeral directors; Undertakers

mortician

[m?:'t??(?)n]

¦ noun N. Amer. an undertaker.

Origin

C19: from L. mors, mort- 'death' + -ician.

mortician

(morticians)

A mortician is a person whose job is to deal with the bodies of people who have died and to arrange funerals. (mainly AM)

= undertaker

N-COUNT

Undertaker

·noun One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.

II. Undertaker ·noun Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals.

III. Undertaker ·noun One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor.

Wikipedia

Funeral director

A funeral director, also known as an undertaker (British English) or mortician (American English), is a professional involved in the business of funeral rites. These tasks often entail the embalming and burial or cremation of the dead, as well as the arrangements for the funeral ceremony (although not the directing and conducting of the funeral itself unless clergy are not present). Funeral directors may at times be asked to perform tasks such as dressing (in garments usually suitable for daily wear), casketing (placing the corpse in the coffin), and cossetting (applying any sort of cosmetic or substance to the best viewable areas of the corpse for the purpose of enhancing its appearance). A funeral director may work at a funeral home or be an independent employee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral director

Examples of use of mortician

1. A mortician by trade, he retrieved the bodies of dead U.S. soldiers.

2. Instead, her first call was to a mortician, prosecutor Andy Moorman said.

3. Daniel Cotnoir was named Marine of the Year last month for his service as a military mortician in Iraq.

4. "But they did." Maybe, an early theory had it, the bodies were dumped by an unscrupulous mortician.

5. After World War II, he trained in Philadelphia to become a mortician because, well, there were no black morticians in Louisa County.