The Responsibilities Of An Undertaker In A Funeral Service

By Rhea Alvarez

Undertakers, who are also called funeral directors, are people who are next in significance to the family of the departed and the clergy when it is about funeral services. These are people who help you arrange the funeral, right from the beginning to the end. The job of undertakers is of such nature that they have to be on call anytime of the day and on any day in the year.

In the face of such a huge loss, the mourning family may not be able to take quick decisions about the service and final disposition of the body. Herein lies the importance and utility of the undertaker. He assists you in deciding the time, place and type of the funeral rituals and services for the deceased. In addition to that, the undertaker in fact helps you to be able to bear your loss, by simply being there for you and acting as an organiser of the funeral services, which depict the love and respect you hold for the departed.

Planning a funeral service begins with deciding upon its time, place and date and then communicating the same to family and acquaintances. After taking this decision, the undertaker helps to shift the body to its resting site, which may be the funeral site or any other place. In case of a burial service, the right casket in which the body is to be rested is usually picked by the undertaker.

The undertaker takes care of every detail of the funeral service, including arranging for flowers, transport, luncheon, priests, choir singers, ashes and headstone, and any other detail that should be focused upon. The wish of the family is always taken into account in all these preparations so that the deceased gets a funeral service the way he or she would have wanted to.

Last but not the least, some undertakers even help you in bringing the dead from other countries, embalming the body and can also help in conducting the funeral service in a foreign country, according to your need.

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