Anonymous  +  962042 Thu, 05 Nov 09 03:10 AM What is the proper name for someone who works in a cemetery who cleans up the dead make sure they are ready to be buried ? Anonymous

	khoff  +  962099 Thu, 05 Nov 09 04:31 AM At least in America, the people who work in the cemetery don't actually even see the body -- the body is in a casket by the time it gets to the cemetery, and the workers there just dig the hole and cover it up.  The funeral home workers prepare the body before it goes to the cemetery.  The person who works in the funeral home and takes care of the bodies is called a mortician. khoff Joined on Sun, Mar 6 2005 Senior Member 3,278 Native speaker of American English (but not a grammar expert)