| 1. | Conform to laws of health and sanitation, and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met. |
| 2. | Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased. |
| 3. | Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs. |
| 4. | Close incisions, using needles and sutures. |
| 5. | Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using derma-surgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of paris, and wax. |
| 6. | Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump. |
| 7. | Dress bodies and place them in caskets. |
| 8. | Perform the duties of funeral directors, including coordinating funeral activities. |
| 9. | Join lips, using needles and thread or wire. |
| 10. | 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. |
| 11. | Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs. |
| 12. | Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease. |
| 13. | Maintain records such as itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed. |
| 14. | Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids. |
| 15. | Wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air dryers. |
| 16. | Arrange for transporting the deceased to another state for interment. |
| 17. | Supervise funeral attendants and other funeral home staff. |
| 18. | Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter. |
| 19. | Assist with placing caskets in hearses, and organize cemetery processions. |
| 20. | Serve as pallbearers, attend visiting rooms, and provide other assistance to the bereaved. |
| 21. | Direct casket and floral display placement and arrange guest seating. |
| 22. | Arrange funeral home equipment and perform general maintenance. |
| 23. | Assist coroners at death scenes or at autopsies, file police reports, and testify at inquests or in court, if employed by a coroner. |
| 24. | Press diaphragm to evacuate air from lungs. |