How do they match: Embalmers

  • Restorative Art Embalmer

  • Assist coroners at death scenes or at autopsies, file police reports, and testify at inquests or in court, if employed by a coroner.
  • Assist with placing caskets in hearses and organize cemetery processions.
  • Arrange funeral home equipment and perform general maintenance.
  • Conduct interviews to arrange for the preparation of obituary notices, to assist with the selection of caskets or urns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations.
  • Remove the deceased from place of death and transport to funeral home.
  • Serve as pallbearers, attend visiting rooms, and provide other assistance to the bereaved.
  • Supervise funeral attendants and other funeral home staff.

  • Assist practitioners to perform medical procedures.