Twenty percent of funeral business are made up of individual businesses owned by morticians. The majority of morticians work in small, independent family run funeral homes. "Graves" is a military science fiction short story by Joe Haldeman about haunted military morticians. Afterwards, their bodies were reconstructed by morticians. These were stored by local morticians in refrigerated warehouses for sometime after the storm. The city of Philadelphia had too many deaths and not enough morticians. Local morticians maintain and check it regularly. There are relatively few morticians that just refuse to perform their duties. The owner usually hires two or three other morticians to help them.