How do they match: Embalmers

  • Preparation Room Manager

  • Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.

  • Clean and disinfect areas in which bodies are prepared and embalmed.
  • 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.
  • Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
  • Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease.