If you are an aspiring funeral director or someone looking for good funeral directors, then this blog is for you. There are many jobs and responsibilities associated with this profession, and to help you out, here are some of them.
Let’s start with the services that a funeral director can offer. The first is embalming. Now not all funeral directors will be licensed or trained as morticians; big Funeral Homes in Westchester, FL often have these two jobs separate. The role of an embalmer is to preserve the body if it is not being immediately being buried or cremated. The embalmer gives the deceased body a natural shape and dresses him or her in their choice of clothes. All the related reports, records, and itemized lists of accessories and clothes are handled by both the embalmer and the funeral director. So, depending on what kind of funeral home you are working for or have employed, this will be the service of the funeral director regarding embalming.
Another service that is rapidly rising up and making embalming a lesser chosen service is cremation. Now a funeral director will not be responsible for the actual cremation unless the funeral home in Westchester, FL has its own crematorium. In most, the funeral director will coordinate between the family wishing to cremate the body and the crematorium. What he or she will be responsible for in that case is offering the ashes of the deceased body in the urn chosen by the family and arranging for the memorial service and if the family wants, the burial of the urn in a mausoleum or burial plot. Another service that many funeral directors are offering now is scattering of the ashes as per the wishes of the deceased person or their family members. Many local laws and state laws need to be taken into consideration if you plan to scatter the ashes in a public space or in the sea, and hence employing a funeral director for that is your safest bet.
A funeral is something every religion, culture, and community. And each of them has its own ritual and customs. Hence, as a funeral director, you will be facing clients with various kinds of requests. It can be anything from a religious service to the arrangement of life celebration parties, as requested or prearranged by many seniors now. As a client, it is good to choose a funeral director who is proficient in the funeral rituals of your religion/community/ethnicity. That way, even if it is your first time arranging a funeral, it will be done smoothly.
Lastly, handling various papers related to funerals is another important job of funeral directors. From the collection of certificates from the doctor who pronounced the deceased dead to filling for a death certificate, all these legal works are handled by a funeral director. Other paperwork that they have to do include requesting veterans’ burial benefits if the deceased person belonged to the armed forces, applying for insurance policies, or annuities on behalf of the family, etc. So, apart from being responsible for guiding a family through the various steps of a funeral, a funeral director has multiple roles to play. Hope this blog helps in understanding some of them.
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