How do they match: Embalmers

  • Preparation Room Manager

  • Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.

  • Press diaphragm to evacuate air from lungs.
  • 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.
  • Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids.
  • 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.