What does it take to be an Embalmer/Funeral Director?
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I'm almost done with getting my funeral directing degree in Texas. I'm gonna copy a list of links to various national organizations that can help, both in deciding if it's right for you and where the nearest school is.\n\nNational Funeral Director's Association - organization for funeral service professionals\nhttp://www.nfda.org/\n\nThe American Board of Funeral Service Education - accredits college programs in Mortuary Science, can help you find a school.\nhttp://www.abfse.org/\n\nThe International Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards - administers the National Board Exam (which i'm about to do a couple of weeks, wish me luck)\nhttp://www.cfseb.org/\n\nThere's also a Yahoo Group for Apprentice Funeral Directors, but we have people who are not in it yet, just interested.\nhttp://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Apprentice_Funeral_Directors_Support_Group/\n\nLook around and see what you find out.\n\nGood luck,\nHelen.
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yes I do,\nFirst , last and middle, county of death, time od death, age, birthdate, social security number, married or divorced, race, education, address, relatives name, mothers name , fathers name, disposition  ( like creamation, etc) embalmed or not, name of funeral home, death reported to coroner, Immediate cause of death,  other causes lots of dates if they had a desease, funeral homes license number, signiture of local registar date, hospital or not, state,
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Actually, there are a few funeral homes that will do it but they have to be done under strict regulations.\n"In such cases, the funeral home must follow strict federal regulations for modifying the casket to make sure the lid doesn't pop open or the coffin bob around in the water.\n\nThe casket must be weighted with 100 pounds of ballast (rocks or sandbags are most commonly used) and 12 6-inch holes must be drilled into the lid and bottom, allowing water to seep in as further counterweight. The casket then must be sealed with five metal shipping bands. "
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There are many qualites, there are just the ones, I think are important. They're not in any particular order of importance.\n1. You have to be smart to make it through a good college and medical school.\n2. You have to have patience and understand that things won't always happen when you want them to.\n3. You have to sympathize with others. When you're operating and the patient has passed away, you need to tell the family face to face.\n4. You have to be passionate about your job. It's usually long hours.\n5. You have to love the people you treat, each and every one of them. It's hard at times, but even if people don't show, they care about your opinino so much.\n6. You have to have responsibility for your actions. If you have someone the wrong prescription or operated and made a mistake, you have to step up and say, "It was my fault."\n7. You have to be honest, because people appreciate that.\n8. You have to have a reasonably good sense of "people skills" so you can make your patients comfortable in the enviroment.\n9. You have to realize that sometimes your patients needs come before your own and you have to make sacrifices from time to time.\n10. You have to be mature. People trust you, and it's your job to keep their trust and confidence.\nI hope I've helped  you a little.\nJ'adore,\nConnie
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I'ed first make sure an organ donation was set up and would be taken care of. Then I'ed make sure my brother would get all my money and stuff and would be taken care of. My funeral would be a party, I would write out little requests of things I didn't have time to do, everything from sky diving to adopting a child, I would ask the people that loved me to pick one and do it, along with something they always wanted to do, then get together a year after I died and share with each other what they did and how it changed them. You're right if we live like we were dying and we take care of the things and people in our life today, not only can we make our life worth living, but our loved ones can help us live on, not only in their memories, but their actions.
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There are several schools to become a funeral director & embalmer. Since you have the EMT background, blood is not an issue and you would probably do well. \n\nMost states want you to do an apprenticeship before you go to school. The school is expensive, so if you do this first, you know before you spend all the money. \n\nGo to a local funeral home. They may not be much help (fearing competition). If they don't help, contact your states Board of Funeral Service to see the requirements & if they can set up for you to shadow, etc.
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Different states have different laws on this issue.  Your remains will be cremated after they are used as teaching tools for up and coming doctors.  It's fascinating!  The people I have known who did donate themselves were very sick; many surgeries and disease processes that will educate others.  It doesn't cost anything where we live and they come to get the body once that person has passed on.  They are very respectful.  Most folks have a memorial ceremony because they really don't have a time schedule on the use of the cadavar.  You can call the state you're in to find out more; or even call a hospice facility about body donation and they give you more detailed information.  Godloveya.
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I just finished up mortuary college. In the case of embalming, organs arent removed from the body, unless the body is autopsied. in that case while embalming the body, the organs are placed in to a bucket and soaked in embalmimg fluid. when the embalming is finished the organs are put in a bag called a viscera bag, placed back in the abdominal cavity and the incision is then closed around the bag.
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It would be a very good idea to get hold of one of a simple guide on being an executor.  These are readily available in good book shops.\n\nThis is what you need to do as executor.\n\n1.Make sure you get plenty of copies of  the death certificate - 15 is a good working number.  You will have to show copies to banks, building societies, companies with which the deceased held shares...it goes on and on.  Many organisations will need sight of an original Death Certificate before releasing funds. Copies obtained from the Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages are regarded as 'originals' as opposed to a photocopy of the certificate.  \n  \n2.. Apply for a Grant of Probate via the nearest Probate Registry.  You may well have done this already. \n\n3.  Arrange to open a  Personal Representative's bank account. This will be used for paying in money due to the estate and any loan arranged to pay an Inheritance Tax bill and/or probate fees. This could easily be a major item if you are dealing with property. Eventually it will be used for paying out bequests under the will.  Warning: after twelve months the bank will start charging monthly fees.\n\n4. Inform all relevant persons and organisations - banks, building societies, life assurance companies, employers, local authorities, Inland Revenue, benefit agencies etc. \n\n5. Arrange for a valuation of the Estate. This will include the property, together with its contents, other personal effects, investments in savings plans, stocks and shares, life policies, building societies etc. Draw up a detailed  list of all the Testator's assets. \n\n6. Draw up a list of debts that must be paid from the proceeds of the Estate. These will include mortgages, any income and capital gains taxes, bills, credit cards, loans and overdrafts. \n\n7. Complete the forms required by the Inland Revenue Capital Taxes Office so that it can be established whether any Inheritance Tax is due.\n\n8. Complete the probate forms and send or take them to the Probate Office along with the original Will, the death certificate and the Inland Revenue account.\n\n9. Provided that the case is fairly straightforward, an appointment will be made for the personal representative to 'swear the papers' within about 5 - 6 weeks of receipt at the Probate Office \n\n10. When Inheritance Tax is due the Executor's account of the Estate is passed to the Inland Revenue and the Grant of Probate cannot be issued until the tax is paid. There will be circumstances where part of the Estate has to be sold to pay Inheritance Tax and if this is the case banks can arrange loan facilities to pay the tax straight away. \n\n11. Copies of the Grant of Probate should be sent to everyone who owes money to the Estate. You now as Executor have a legal authority to pursue any debts owing to the Estate. \n\n12. When the Grant of Probate is received, the Estate can be divided according to the terms of the Will. The Executor must prepare and sign accounts showing who has received what from the distribution. They must be able to show that they acted in accordance with the terms of the  Will in case there is any dissent from the family of the deceased. \n\n13. All papers, including the Grant of Probate and the accounts must be stored safely for a period of 12 years.\n\n\nAs you can see, it all takes quite a long time and you will certainly need to instruct a solicitor for the conveyancing.
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Although most mortuary colleges will agree that the solution concentration of formaldehyde (HCHO) to be used should be altered (increased or lowered) according to the actual state of the body at time of embalming, most funeral homes and embalmers will increase the solution stength for a ship-out body to 3-4% instead of the 1.5% "normal" solution.  For example, a 2 gal solution would be mixed with 32oz of arterial fluid holding a 30 index.  However, a strong solution though preserving, will most likely dehydrate the skin unless humectant is also employed arterially and without proper drainage surface embalming may occur.
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A medical examiner is a physician.  After 4 years of med school, you need to finish a 4 year pathology residency and then a fellowship in forensic pathology (I think it is 1 year, may be 2).  For more info check out the website for the National Association of Medical Examiners at www.thename.org/  .
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Presumably the death has been registered and the funeral is over and it is simply a matter of sorting out the estate.\n\n1.Make sure you get plenty of copies of  the death certificate - 15 is a good working number.  You will have to show copies to banks, building societies, companies with which the deceased held shares...it goes on and on.  Many organisations will need sight of an original Death Certificate before releasing funds. Copies obtained from the Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages are regarded as 'originals' as opposed to a photocopy of the certificate.  \n  \n2.. Apply for a Grant of Probate via the nearest Probate Registry.  You may well have done this already. \n\n3.  Arrange to open a  Personal Representative's bank account. This will be used for paying in money due to the estate and any loan arranged to pay an Inheritance Tax bill and/or probate fees.  Eventually it will be used for paying out bequests under the will.  Warning: after twelve months the bank will start charging monthly fees.\n\n4. Inform all relevant persons and organisations - banks, building societies, life assurance companies, employers, local authorities, Inland Revenue, benefit agencies etc. \n\n5. Arrange for a valuation of the Estate. This will include the house (if owned or partly owned by the deceased) together with its contents, other personal effects, investments in savings plans, stocks and shares, life policies, building societies etc. Draw up a detailed  list of all the Testator's assets. \n\n6. Draw up a list of debts that must be paid from the proceeds of the Estate. These will include mortgages, any income and capital gains taxes, bills, credit cards, loans and overdrafts. \n\n7. Complete the forms required by the Inland Revenue Capital Taxes Office so that it can be established whether any Inheritance Tax is due.\n\n8. Complete the probate forms and send or take them to the Probate Office along with the original Will, the death certificate and the Inland Revenue account.\n\n9. Provided that the case is fairly straightforward, an appointment will be made for the personal representative to 'swear the papers' within about 5 - 6 weeks of receipt at the Probate Office \n\n10. When Inheritance Tax is due the Executor's account of the Estate is passed to the Inland Revenue and the Grant of Probate cannot be issued until the tax is paid. There will be circumstances where part of the Estate has to be sold to pay Inheritance Tax and if this is the case banks can arrange loan facilities to pay the tax straight away. \n\n11. Copies of the Grant of Probate should be sent to everyone who owes money to the Estate. You now as Executor have a legal authority to pursue any debts owing to the Estate. \n\n12. When the Grant of Probate is received, the Estate can be divided according to the terms of the Will. The Executor must prepare and sign accounts showing who has received what from the distribution. They must be able to show that they acted in accordance with the terms of the  Will in case there is any dissent from the family of the deceased. \n\n13. All papers, including the Grant of Probate and the accounts must be stored safely for a period of 12 years.\n\n\nAs you can see, it all takes quite a long time and it would be most imprudent to tell beneficiaries about their expectations under the will before you have sorted out debts owed by the estate, especially taxes. Once this has been done, then you can begin to pay out the specific legacies, but the residuary legatee (the one who stands to inherit what is left in the estate when all debts have been paid) won't know until you have drawn up the final accounts what he or she is getting.\n\nThere are some simple guides on being an executor obtainable and it would be a good idea to get one.
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The only two sure things in life are death and taxes.\n\nSo either be an accountant or a mortician.
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You would need to call the cemetary office where the body is buried OR the one you want to have the body reburied at.
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i recommend calling the state she plans to be licensed in, as some states differ on their requirements.  Also, there is no longer separate degrees of funeral director and embalmer, now when you get licenesed, it is a combined degree.  She will have to take all of the funeral directing and embalming classes, then take the National Board and the state licensing board exams.  If you go to www.mortuaryschools.com, it has a complete listing of every mortuary school in the US.  Good luck, this is a wonderful, rewarding career!
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An undertaker is the person that arranges the funeral services and the burial.  A Mortician is the person that prepares the bodyy for burial and an Embolmer is the person that exchanges the bodily fluids with the formaldehyde solution to help preserve the body.
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Ask the undertakers/funeral managers...they should know.