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AI for Embalmers

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.

Embalmers · O*NET 39-4011.00 · Job Zone 3 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

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The tools this job actually uses

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  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • Belmar & Associates Mortware
  • Corel WordPerfect Office Suite
  • Custom Data Systems Sterling Management Software
  • FPA Software MACCS
  • HMIS Advantage
  • Twin Tier Technologies MIMS
  • Web browser software

What this job involves

26 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.

  1. Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met.
  2. Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased.
  3. Join lips, using needles and thread or wire.
  4. Close incisions, using needles and sutures.
  5. Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
  6. Clean and disinfect areas in which bodies are prepared and embalmed.
  7. Dress bodies and place them in caskets.
  8. Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump.
  9. Remove the deceased from place of death and transport to funeral home.
  10. Perform the duties of funeral directors, including coordinating funeral activities.
  11. Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs.
  12. Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax.
  13. Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
  14. 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.
  15. Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids.
  16. Assist with placing caskets in hearses and organize cemetery processions.
  17. Maintain records, such as itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed.
  18. Wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air dryers.
  19. Arrange for transporting the deceased to another state for interment.
  20. Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease.
  21. Supervise funeral attendants and other funeral home staff.
  22. Serve as pallbearers, attend visiting rooms, and provide other assistance to the bereaved.
  23. Direct casket and floral display placement and arrange guest seating.
  24. Arrange funeral home equipment and perform general maintenance.
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