Description
Prepare and care for human remains and arrange and direct funeral services, including embalming, coordinating transportation, advising families on service details, and ensuring compliance with legal and logistical requirements.
- • Consult with families to arrange funeral details, including obituaries, casket selection, and service plans.
- • Gather information to complete death certificates, burial or cremation permits, and other legal documents.
- • Prepare, embalm, and care for human remains, including restorative art and cosmetic work.
- • Coordinate with cemeteries to schedule grave openings and closings.
- • Explain service options, merchandise, and pricing; maintain the casket and urn display area.
- • Provide compassionate guidance and support to bereaved families.
- • Close caskets and direct visitations, services, and funeral processions.
- • Arrange for clergy or celebrants and coordinate religious or cultural rites.
- • Arrange transportation for remains, family, pallbearers, clergy, and floral tributes.
- • Prepare and ship remains for out-of-state or international disposition.
- • Discuss and finalize prearranged funeral and burial or cremation plans.
- • Advise survivors on available benefits and assist with claims.
- • Maintain financial records, order supplies and merchandise, and prepare invoices.
- • Plan placement of caskets and arrange lighting and floral displays at service sites.
- • Select and brief pallbearers or honorary groups on their duties.
- • Oversee ushering, seating, and crowd flow during services.
- • Plan, schedule, and coordinate funerals, burials, and cremations, including floral and venue logistics.
- • Supervise and train embalming and funeral service staff, as needed.
- • Ensure facilities, equipment, and preparation rooms are clean, safe, and compliant.
- • Engage in community outreach to promote funeral home services.
- • Remove deceased remains from homes, hospitals, or other places of death.
- • Maintain chain of custody and documentation throughout the care of remains.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
