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Friday, December 18, 2009

The Job Of A Funeral Director

By Mark Kendall

The main task of a funeral director is taking care of everything in a funeral, from the pre-burial or pre-cremation rites to the actual handling of the dead's body.

The important tasks of a funeral director involve moving the body to a mortuary, preparing it for the memorial service, making preparations for the services where people will remember and pay their final respects to the deceased, and carrying out the final procedures on the corpse.

These tasks entail focusing on essential activities like deciding the venue and timings of the funeral ceremonies, arranging for a car to shift the body, and preparing obituaries and posting them in print or the digital media. Further, funeral directors have to make arrangements for flowers and have the decoration done for each ceremony, arrange for vehicles for the assembled people and clothe the deceased for the service after anointing it.

Apart from these tasks, a funeral director has to take care of the job of doing the mandatory paperwork formalities required following a person's death. He helps the family obtain a death certificate. He also shoulders the responsibility of settling insurance claims for the family as well as helping them take benefit of schemes like veteran's burial support. He also takes care of issues related to annuities and transfer of pension of the deceased person to the rightful beneficiary and aids the family to come up with a budget for the ceremony.

He also has to associate with many people and should coordinate with different people for effectively performing his jobs. He has to associate with physicians, pastors, coffin makers and florists, all with equal ease.

Finally, it is essential for funeral directors to work beyond their normal schedule and provide comfort and solace to the suffering family of the deceased, so that they can tide over their sorrow. Though some funeral directors neglect this responsibility, it is a critical aspect in a profession like this.

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