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5163
- Undertakers and embalmers

Undertakers and embalmers arrange funerals and perform various tasks in the disposal of human bodies.
(a)   Tasks include -
making arrangements for, and conducting, funerals, cremations and burials;
embalming human bodies to retard or arrest the process of decay;
conforming to health and sanitation and ensuring that legal requirements concerning embalming are met;
incising and closing incisions on various parts of the body and reshaping or reconstructing disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary;
dressing bodies and placing them in caskets;
conducting interviews to arrange for preparation of obituary notices, to assist with the selection of caskets or urns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations.

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