For a person who suffers the death of a family member, grief is a powerful emotion that threatens to overcome them. This time of overwhelming sadness is not ideal for making good decisions. Still, the bereaved will be called upon to arrange what are essential for the loved one’s interment. The funeral service arrangement is one essential aspect to look into. The mourning person could engage the services of a funeral director to assists in the matter of arranging for the funeral service.

The main task of a funeral director is to make all arrangements for the funeral service up to the handling of the dead body at the cremation or burial.

There are four important tasks of a funeral director, they are: (a) shifting of the body to the mortuary; (b) embalming and preparing the body for the ceremony; (c) arranging for the ceremonies for friends and family to pay their final respects to the deceased and; (d) the last act of burial or cremation according to the customs of the family.

These tasks involve focusing on essential activities like deciding the place and timings of the funeral ceremonies, arranging for a hearse to transport the body, and preparing obituaries and placing them in newspapers or the digital media. Moreover, the funeral directors also have to make sure that the decorations and flowers are in place. Besides this, they have to prepare the body for the service by bathing and embalming it and arrange transportation for the family and friends gathering for the ceremony.

Apart from these jobs, a funeral director has to take care of the job of doing the mandatory paperwork formalities needed following a person’s death. He helps the family obtain a death certificate. He also shoulders the responsibility of settling claims of insurance for the family besides helping them take benefit of schemes like veteran’s burial support. He can also arrange for the clearance of any pensions or annuities that the family is entitled to receive, and provides tips to the family on how to manage funeral expenses.

He also has to work in collaboration with a number of people and needs to coordinate with different people for effectively performing his tasks. He should be able to communicate with physicians, florists, casket makers and priests equally well.

Last but not the least, it is essential for funeral directors to come forward and provide some solace to the grieving family on an unofficial level, so as to help them get over the loss of a loved one. Some funeral directors ignore this responsibility, but it is an important part of their service no doubt.

Our professional funeral directors can arrange Christian funeral or Buddhist funeral, and other religious funerals. We have the experience arranging for rituals that are characteristic of religious funeral services.