How do they match: Embalmers

  • Assist with placing caskets in hearses and organize cemetery processions.
  • Assist coroners at death scenes or at autopsies, file police reports, and testify at inquests or in court, if employed by a coroner.
  • 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.
  • Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
  • Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease.
  • Serve as pallbearers, attend visiting rooms, and provide other assistance to the bereaved.

  • Assist practitioners to perform medical procedures.