Funeral Attendants

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (55%).

• Perform a variety of tasks during funerals to assist funeral directors and to ensure that services run smoothly and as planned.
• Offer assistance to mourners as they enter or exit limousines.
• Greet people at the funeral home.
• Carry flowers to hearses or limousines for transportation to places of interment.
• Deliver floral arrangements or other items to family members of the deceased.
• Transport the deceased to the funeral home.
• Prepare obituaries for newspapers.
• Arrange floral offerings or lights around caskets.
• Provide advice to mourners on how to make charitable donations in honor of the deceased.
• Issue and store funeral equipment.
• Clean funeral parlors or chapels.

• Act as pallbearers.
• Place caskets in parlors or chapels prior to wakes or funerals.
• Direct or escort mourners to parlors or chapels in which wakes or funerals are being held.
• Close caskets at appropriate point in services.
• Perform general maintenance tasks for funeral homes, such as maintaining equipment or caring for funeral grounds.
• Obtain burial permits and register deaths.
• Embalm, dress, cosmeticize, and casket the deceased.
• Clean and drive funeral vehicles, such as cars or hearses, in funeral processions.
• Supervise funeral processions and assist with cemetery parking.