Requirements:
- A high school diploma
- Have a mortuary license
- Be 21 years of age
Job Tasks:
- Lifting and carrying heavy bodies
- Apply cosmetics to the deceased
- Drain blood and waste from the body
- Close incisions
- Take out air from the lungs of the deceased
- Arrange the funeral home
- Arrange transportation for the decease
- Was and dry the deceased body
- Stitch the lips of the decease, together
Early embalmers:
Documented embalming started as early as the Civil War. Many men were military surgeons, and they soon found the financial benefits of embalming. Few of them followed the war to continue the job.It wasn't until the twentieth century that embalming became an accepted practice.