Embalmers prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.
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- Embalmers
- Human Services
What do they typically do
- Wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air dryers
- Dress bodies and place them in caskets
- Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using derma surgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax
- Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs
- Join lips, using needles and thread or wire
- Close incisions, using needles and sutures
- Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs
- Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements are met
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Education & Training
- Education Most occupations require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.Associated Programs or MajorsLicense
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