# Embalmers > Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements. - Code: 39-4011.00 (O*NET-SOC; SOC 2018 39-4011) - Family: [Personal Care & Service](https://foundation.org.ai/occupations#family-39), one of its 34 occupations - Tasks: 26 tasks (24 core and 2 supplemental) - Page: https://foundation.org.ai/occupations/39-4011.00 - JSON: https://foundation.org.ai/data/tasks/39-4011.00.json ## What the work is made of 1. Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met. Core task · Task 4487 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 2. Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased. Core task · Task 4488 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 3. Join lips, using needles and thread or wire. Core task · Task 4495 · Rated by 55 people who do the job, August 2021 4. Close incisions, using needles and sutures. Core task · Task 4490 · Rated by 55 people who do the job, August 2021 5. Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs. Core task · Task 4489 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 6. Clean and disinfect areas in which bodies are prepared and embalmed. Core task · Task 23930 · Rated by 55 people who do the job, August 2021 7. Dress bodies and place them in caskets. Core task · Task 4493 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 8. Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump. Core task · Task 4492 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 9. Remove the deceased from place of death and transport to funeral home. Core task · Task 20257 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 10. Perform the duties of funeral directors, including coordinating funeral activities. Core task · Task 4494 · Rated by 55 people who do the job, August 2021 11. Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs. Core task · Task 4497 · Rated by 54 people who do the job, August 2021 12. Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax. Core task · Task 4491 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 13. Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter. Core task · Task 4504 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 14. Conduct interviews to arrange for the preparation of obituary notices, to assist with the selection of caskets or urns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations. Core task · Task 4496 · Rated by 55 people who do the job, August 2021 15. Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids. Core task · Task 4500 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 16. Assist with placing caskets in hearses and organize cemetery processions. Core task · Task 4505 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 17. Maintain records, such as itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed. Core task · Task 4499 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 18. Wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air dryers. Core task · Task 4501 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 19. Arrange for transporting the deceased to another state for interment. Core task · Task 4502 · Rated by 55 people who do the job, August 2021 20. Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease. Core task · Task 4498 · Rated by 55 people who do the job, August 2021 21. Supervise funeral attendants and other funeral home staff. Core task · Task 4503 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 22. Serve as pallbearers, attend visiting rooms, and provide other assistance to the bereaved. Core task · Task 4506 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 23. Direct casket and floral display placement and arrange guest seating. Core task · Task 4507 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 24. Arrange funeral home equipment and perform general maintenance. Core task · Task 4508 · Rated by 55 people who do the job, August 2021 25. Assist coroners at death scenes or at autopsies, file police reports, and testify at inquests or in court, if employed by a coroner. Supplemental task · Task 4509 · Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021 26. Press diaphragm to evacuate air from lungs. 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