Ceremonial officiant

Undertakers and embalmers perform various activities related to funerals and the embalming of the deceased.

• organising and conducting funerals, cremations and funeral ceremonies;
• embalming bodies;
• complying with sanitary norms and legal requirements related to embalming;
• making incisions in various parts of the body and restoring disfigured bodies when necessary;
• dressing bodies and placing them in coffins;
• holding meetings to arrange funeral preparations, helping to select coffins or urns, and determining the place and time of burials or cremations.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Head of office, funeral services
• Attendant, funeral office
• Embalmer-cosmetician
• Gravedigger