Sheri Fink

When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study of death certificates and disaster mortuary team records. Many of them might have been saved if they had been evacuated sooner.

American Journalist

Andrew Buchan

Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' the scene was Danny lying on the mortuary table. I can't remember the last audition I had where I didn't come out drenched in sweat, puffy-eyed.

English Actor

Salim Akil

I've worked in a mortuary and seen the consequences of what guns and knives do to people.

Mortuary is commonly used in medical or forensic contexts where professionalism is essential.

Medical Setting

A mortuary is a temporary place for the deceased before final arrangements, like a funeral.

Temporary Keeping

The word mortuary can evoke a sense of solemnity and respect for the deceased.

Emotional Weight

Mortuary isn't only about death; it relates to rituals and customs surrounding burial.

Beyond Funerals

Mortuary as an adjective can introduce a serious, respectful tone regarding death and rituals.

Respectful Tone

Understanding mortuary practices can offer insights into historical or cultural values about death.

Historical Context

 I think is more political I think we have to get on to this I suggested we should have occupied death my wife said I sit over here right sittings in the mortuary yeah oh sure so that one didn't really run but I did I was very struck by this now I'm an aging hippies I don't

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 called the Zen Hospice Project, where we have a little ritual that helps with this shift in perspective. When one of our residents dies, the mortuary men come, and as we're wheeling the body out through the garden, heading for the gate, we pause.

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 routinely embalming the dead would be taboo in many other cultures even in mortuary school embalming is practically a ritual with clearly defined steps first the body is cleaned and prepped mouths pleasure it's crucial to get that

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 This is extraordinary. This could help us to rewrite the history of how we understand the landscape around Portus." Previously in this area, they had found a number of mortuary features. So, again, a before and an after.

Risk Takers: Archaeology...

 My wife said, "Yeah, right, sit-ins in the mortuary. Yeah, yeah. Sure." So that one didn't really run, but I was very struck by this. Now, I'm an aging hippie. I don't know, I don't think I look like that anymore, but

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 there isn't a single thing on it that involves other human beings. Not one. The janitor's job could just as well be done in a mortuary as in a hospital. And yet, when some psychologists interviewed hospital janitors

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 Oh, you like my ring? It's my grandmother. Fastest-growing business in the whole mortuary industry. But you don't have to be Ozzie Osborne -- you don't have to be super-outrageous to do this. What you have to do

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 on our mind's and our body's health. And there she was standing in my lab, which ironically overlooked the entrance to a mortuary, and -- And she had a life-and-death question for me.

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 She was a great builder. Her mortuary temple, Djeser-Djeseru, was an architectural phenomenon at the time and is still admired today. She enhanced the economy of Egypt,

The pharaoh that...

 the cliff face collapsed these mortuary caves were once reached by narrow access tubes