Funeral Directors

• Provides embalming and restorative work
• Often trained as grief counselors
• Arrange and provide an orderly series of events that finalize the funeral
• Provide transportation from place of death to place of final disposition
• Process legal paperwork
• Picks up body, cleanses, and safeguards body
• Provides casket, urn and sometimes burial container
• Provides viewing and funeral service
• Collects fees for outside parties and distributes the funds prior to service

Cemeteries

• Provides burial, mausoleum or cremation property
• Provides burial container or vault, memorial, urns and fees to open and close grave
• Maintains death records and genealogical information perpetually
• Maintains and improves cemetery property and mapping
• Maintains trusts for perpetual care and merchandise
• Processes the legal paperwork (deeds and authorizations for interment, entombment or inurnment)
• Sets burial containers and memorials

Crematory

• Picks up body
• Provides cremation service
• Provides temporary urn when cremation is complete
• Maintains paperwork
• Maintains retort