Susie Dent

What I've discovered is that from football fans to undertakers, secret agents to marble-players and politicians, we all are part of at least one tribe. By tribes, I'm talking anthropologically; these groups are determined less by genes and more by the work they do or the passions they pursue.

English Scientist

Jean Kerr

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

American Playwright

George Jean Nathan

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

American Editor

Jessica Mitford

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

American Journalist

Mark Twain

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

American Writer

Claudia Black

Don't think I'd really want to be a mortician. Wouldn't be getting much back.

Australian Actress

Caitlin Doughty

I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.

American Activist

Ethel Waters

There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

American Musician

Fred Allen

My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.

American Comedian

Amber Cope

American Driver

The term 'undertaker' is specific to the funeral industry and is not a general term for someone who undertakes tasks.

Occupation Specificity

'Undertaker' is a neutral word, but discussing death requires culturally sensitive language.

Cultural Sensitivity

Use 'undertaker' respectfully when addressing the profession, acknowledging their role in funeral services.

Respectful Context

 first as a crematory operator, then as a mortician and most recently, as the owner of my own funeral home. And I have some good if you're looking to avoid the whole "doomed to decay and die" you will have all the help in the world in that avoidance from the funeral industry.

A burial practice that...

 constant work most workers will leave the nest as death approaches the corpses of those that die inside the hive are carried out by an undertaker bees it's a thankless life for the worker bee but this collaboration and process has made them one of the most successful

How Do Honeybees Get...

 The whip lies ready for his arrival. No one knows who smashed the dish, but Dad will call the undertaker to torture it out of them, if he must. The doorkeeper opens the front door to the house. A hush comes over the anxious slaves.