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TASK
Embalmers
ID
work_personal_service/embalmers
Type
TASK
Children
26
Child Nodes (26)
ATOMIC
Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met.
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Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased.
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Join lips, using needles and thread or wire.
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Close incisions, using needles and sutures.
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Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
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Clean and disinfect areas in which bodies are prepared and embalmed.
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Dress bodies and place them in caskets.
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Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump.
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Remove the deceased from place of death and transport to funeral home.
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Perform the duties of funeral directors, including coordinating funeral activities.
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Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs.
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Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax.
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Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
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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.
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Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids.
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Assist with placing caskets in hearses and organize cemetery processions.
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Maintain records, such as itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed.
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Wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air dryers.
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Arrange for transporting the deceased to another state for interment.
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Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease.
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Supervise funeral attendants and other funeral home staff.
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Serve as pallbearers, attend visiting rooms, and provide other assistance to the bereaved.
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Direct casket and floral display placement and arrange guest seating.
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Arrange funeral home equipment and perform general maintenance.
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Assist coroners at death scenes or at autopsies, file police reports, and testify at inquests or in court, if employed by a coroner.
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