gravedigger
Burial plot excavator
A gravedigger is someone who digs graves for burial.
The work is manual labor, traditionally done with a shovel, though modern cemeteries often use machinery.
Gravedigger carries associations with death and darkness—the figure appears in folklore and literature as someone comfortable among corpses, most famously in the scene from *Hamlet*.
The gravediggers had the plot ready by morning.
undertaker
Funeral service professional
- morticianFuneral home professional
- sextonChurch building caretaker
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
burial · coffin · casket · shovel · plot · headstone · tombstone · interment · funeral · corpse
- funeral workersundertaker, mortician, embalmer, funeral director, funeral home owner
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- old occupationsblacksmith, carpenter, miller, farmer, shepherd
- diggersbackhoe, shovel, spade, pickaxe, bulldozer
- funeral rolespallbearer, mourner, officiant, funeral director, eulogist
- HamletHamlet, Claudius, Ophelia, Gertrude, Polonius
gravediggermidwife
Childbirth assistance professional
obstetrician · birth attendant · doula · life-giver · neonatal nurse
gravediggerexhumer
One who unearths burials
grave robber · body snatcher · resurrectionist · resurrection man · archaeologist