. . . "Creepy Mortician"@en . "Be they morticians, pathologists, funeral house workers or gravediggers - people who deal with the dead have always been assumed to be interesting, because, well, they deal with the dead. That is why in fiction, it is popular to present workers in those professions as either outright creepy, or at least have a sense of humour which is very far off. They play around with the bodies of the deceased, joke while performing scientific dissections, or at least die first during a zombie attack. Examples of Creepy Mortician include:"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Be they morticians, pathologists, funeral house workers or gravediggers - people who deal with the dead have always been assumed to be interesting, because, well, they deal with the dead. That is why in fiction, it is popular to present workers in those professions as either outright creepy, or at least have a sense of humour which is very far off. They play around with the bodies of the deceased, joke while performing scientific dissections, or at least die first during a zombie attack. If they accidentally encounter a living person instead of an expectedly dead one, it may be related to Waking Up At the Morgue or Buried Alive. Also see Black Comedy. Examples of Creepy Mortician include:"@en .