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A funeral director, also known as an undertaker or mortician (American English), is a professional who has licenses in funeral arranging and embalming (or preparation of the deceased) involved in the business of funeral rites.
Libitina, also Libentina or Lubentina, is an ancient Roman goddess of funerals and burial. Her name was used as a metonymy for death, [1] and undertakers were known as libitinarii. [2] Libitina was associated with Venus, and the name appears in some authors as an epithet of Venus. [3]
Various burial societies existed to serve funeral and social needs within particular professions, such as undertakers, grave-diggers, gladiators, butchers and executioners, who were polluted and dishonoured by their professional association with blood and death, and were categorised as infames (infamous ones), allowed a very restricted set of ...
By the mid-19th century, the newly emerging profession of businessmen-undertakers – who provided funeral and burial services – began adopting embalming methods as standard. [10] Embalming became more common in the United States during the American Civil War, when servicemen often died far from home. The wish of families for their remains to ...
Frederick Claudius Williams (September 10, 1855 – March 6, 1940) was an American orchardist, beekeeper, and funeral director. He was the thirteenth President of the Chico Board of Trustees, the governing body of Chico, California from 1895 to 1897.
Allyse Worland is a first-generation funeral director licensed in Indiana and Kentucky. More young women are now enrolling in mortuary schools as the industry faces a labor shortage.
A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
State regulators allowed a Carlinville funeral director to operate for months despite a complaint filed by a local coroner who found a decomposing body in his funeral home and alleged the care of ...