Undertakers and embalmers

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

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