After all, as he points out, undertakers already routinely remove pacemakers from dead bodies.

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Christine Omoregie has launched legal proceedings against Hull City Council, the local hospital trust and a firm of undertakers.

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The teenager's body was removed from the site on a stretcher by undertakers on Friday afternoon, and a post-mortem examination was carried out later.

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Victorian undertakers aside, this really is life and death stuff.

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The daughter of a family of undertakers and musicians, she watched members of Congress, met President Calvin Coolidge, and developed a lifelong respect for the US democratic experiment.

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Tayside's firefighters have assisted a number of people who have been stuck in the bath, as well as helping undertakers who have been unable to move bodies because of their size.

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It is hard to persuade young people to get involved in the business, which is not just gloomy but also gruelling: undertakers are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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