How do they match: Embalmers

  • Arrange funeral home equipment and perform general maintenance.
  • Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
  • Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax.

  • Clean facilities or equipment.
  • Perform basic equipment maintenance.