noun
person seeing someone off; sender-off
Refers to someone who accompanies a departing person to say goodbye, e.g., at an airport or station. Often contrasted with 迎え人 (person who meets someone).
See also: 迎え人
空港で送り人が見えなくなるまで手を振った。
I waved until the person seeing me off at the airport was out of sight.
noun
person who prepares a body for burial; encoffiner
Colloquial term for someone who ritually cleanses and dresses a deceased person before cremation or burial. Gained wider recognition through the film おくりびと (Departures).
映画『おくりびと』は納棺師の仕事を描いている。
The film 'Departures' depicts the work of an encoffiner.
Compound of 送り (okuri, 'sending off') + 人 (hito, 'person'), with rendaku voicing of ひと to びと. The burial sense is a specialized extension of the seeing-off meaning.