How do they match: Embalmers

  • Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met.
  • Serve as pallbearers, attend visiting rooms, and provide other assistance to the bereaved.

  • Assist practitioners to perform medical procedures.
  • Testify at legal or legislative proceedings.