How do they match: Embalmers

  • Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.

  • Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met.
  • Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
  • Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
  • Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax.

  • Testify at legal or legislative proceedings.
  • Transport biological or other medical materials.