0 a person whose job is to prepare dead bodies that are going to be buried or cremated (= burned) and to organize funerals
1 a person whose business is to prepare the dead to be buried or cremated (= burned) and to organize funerals
It was an undertaker parlor next door to the theater, and we were supposed to stay in some rooms they had upstairs there.
It looks as though the author sees himself as a kind of academic undertaker, devoting himself to the interment of bodies of thought.
He is more than an undertaker in that he also takes on the moral blame and the pollution of the death.
By contrast, the working class had little need for the undertaker's services, except to provide a coffin and, possibly, transportation.
No, he insists, 'phagocytes are the funeral undertakers, not the assassins'.
Would undertakers submit to government interference?
First, death notification was often carried out by undertakers or other non-related persons, who were not necessarily informed about the exact birth dates of the orphaned children.
The various compromises that they reached - requiring certification of deaths and paying benefits directly to undertakers, for example - were not wholly satisfying to any of the constituencies.
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