Perform various tasks to arrange and direct funeral services, such as coordinating transportation of body to mortuary for embalming, interviewing family or other authorized person to arrange details, selecting pallbearers, procuring official for religious rites, and providing transportation for mourners.

Other names for Funeral Directors: Director, Embalmer, Funeral Arranger, Funeral Arrangment Director, Funeral Counselor, Funeral Director, Funeral Director / Embalmer, Funeral Director and Embalmer, Funeral Director and Mortician, Funeral Home Manager, Funeral Location Manager, Funeral Pre-Need Consultant, Funeral Prearrangement Counselor, Licensed Embalmer, Licensed Funeral Director, Licensed Mortician, Location Manager, Manager, Mortician, Operations Manager, Undertaker,

• Consult with families or friends of the deceased to arrange funeral details such as obituary notice wording, casket selection, and plans for services.
• Plan, schedule and coordinate funerals, burials, and cremations, arranging such details as the time and place of services.
• Obtain information needed to complete legal documents such as death certificates and burial permits.
• Oversee the preparation and care of the remains of people who have died.
• Contact cemeteries to schedule the opening and closing of graves.
• Provide information on funeral service options, products, and merchandise, and maintain a casket display area.
• Manage funeral home operations, including hiring and supervising embalmers, funeral attendants, and other staff.
• Offer counsel and comfort to bereaved families and friends.
• Close caskets and lead funeral corteges to churches or burial sites.
• Arrange for clergy members to perform needed services.
• Provide or arrange transportation between sites for the remains, mourners, pallbearers, clergy, and flowers.
• Perform embalming duties as necessary.
• Direct preparations and shipment of bodies for out-of-state burial.
• Discuss and negotiate prearranged funerals with clients.
• Inform survivors of benefits for which they may be eligible.
• Maintain financial records, order merchandise, and prepare accounts.
• Plan placement of caskets at funeral sites, and place and adjust lights, fixtures, and floral displays.
• Arrange for pallbearers, and inform pallbearers and honorary groups of their duties.
• Receive and usher people to their seats for services.

• Surgical trocars for general use or accessories
• Air brushes
• Chemical pumps
• Postmortem needles
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Operating room patient positioning devices or accessories
• Embalming vein drainage tubes
• Hair care supplies
• Autopsy knives or blades
• Makeup kits
• Body bags
• Operating room patient positioning devices or accessories
• Embalming cavity injectors
• Postmortem incision clips
• Embalming injecting tubes
• Cadaver lifter or transfer devices
• Centrifugal pumps
• Makeup kits
• Embalming injecting tubes
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Suture needles
• Manicure implements
• Desktop computers
• Mortuary aspirators
• Chemical pumps
• Embalming injector needles
• Embalming cavity injectors
• Embalming vein drainage tubes
• Eyewashers or eye wash stations
• Operating room patient positioning devices or accessories
• Ophthalmic surgical knives or blades or scissors or accessories
• Embalming vein drainage tubes
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Embalming cavity injectors
• Embalming injecting tubes
• Operating room patient positioning devices or accessories
• Operating room patient positioning devices or accessories
• Makeup kits
• Cadaver lifter or transfer devices
• Mortuary aspirators
• Hypodermic needles
• Embalming vein drainage tubes
• Embalming injecting tubes
• Surgical trocars for general use or accessories
• Surgical scissors
• Embalming vein drainage tubes
• Notebook computers
• Makeup kits
• Bandage scissors or its supplies
• Operating room patient positioning devices or accessories
• Surgical scissors
• Cadaver lifter or transfer devices
• Autopsy fluid collection vacuum aspirators or tubing
• Autopsy fluid collection vacuum aspirators or tubing
• Paint sprayers
• Personal computers
• Makeup kits
• Safety hoods
• Medical staff isolation or surgical masks
• Medical exam or non surgical procedure gloves
• Footwear covers
• Morgue cabinet refrigerators
• Finger ring removers
• Protective coveralls
• Goggles
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Makeup kits
• Embalming injecting tubes
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Surgical scissors
• Autopsy saws
• Surgical shave kits or prep razors or clippers
• Surgical scalpels or knives or blades or trephines or accessories
• Surgical needle holders for general use
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Makeup kits
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats

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