Job Details

Your job as a funeral service worker might entail making arrangements for memorial services and wakes, writing obituary notices and arranging transport to and from services for bereaved friends and family members. Other duties might include preparing death certificates and coordinating flower deliveries. You might also perform embalming services, in which bodies are drained of blood and filled with an embalming fluid which acts as a preservative. When necessary, you might reshape bodies for cosmetic reasons, using clay and wax.