Undertakers and embalmers

Undertakers and embalmers perform various tasks in the disposal of dead human bodies.

Skill level: Semi-skilled

Job Definition

  • Making arrangements for and conducting funerals, cremations and burials
  • Embalming human remains to retard or arrest the process of decay
  • Conforming to health and sanitation and ensuring that legal requirements concerning embalming are met
  • Incising and closing incisions on various parts of the body and reshaping or reconstructing disfigured or maimed human remains when necessary
  • Dressing human bodies and placing them in caskets
  • Conducting interviews to arrange for preparation of obituary notices, to assist with the selection of caskets or urns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations
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