United States
5163-Undertakers and embalmers
Job Title:
Undertakers and embalmers
Job Description:
Undertakers and embalmers perform various tasks in the disposal of dead human bodies.
Tasks:
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 casketsorurns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations.
Specific Occupations:
51631
Attendant (funeral / undertaker?s)
51632
Director (funeral)/ Mortician/ Undertaker
51633
Embalmer/ Gussal
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Source Of Info:
Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, PSCO-2264