About 1,500 embalmers and funeral directors graduated from mortuary sciences schools in 2021. Lily McMurrow is the president of Worsham College; she's also the chair of the accreditation board for mortician schools. She was actually training in another profession to be a lawyer when she first learned about mortician school.
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