How do they match: Embalmers

  • Arrange funeral home equipment and perform general maintenance.
  • Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs.
  • Maintain records, such as itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed.
  • Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump.

  • Perform basic equipment maintenance.