5193-Undertakers and Embalmers

Tasks include:

• making arrangements for, and conducting, funerals, cremations and burials
• embalming human bodies to retard or arrest the process of decay
• conforming to health and sanitation and ensuring that legal requirements concerning embalming are met
• incising and closing incisions on various parts of the body and reshaping or reconstructing disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary
• dressing bodies and placing them in caskets
• conducting interviews to arrange for preparation of obituary notices, to assist with the selection of caskets or urns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations