Role of a Funeral Director

The funeral director is a professional caregiver who enables families and communities to celebrate a life and provide support for the living by:

• Helping the bereaved during the initial stages of their grief.
• Assisting with planning meaningful services and ceremonies in which people of different faiths and cultures express their feelings and practice their beliefs.
• Carrying our administrative and logistical tasks required by law, custom and acceptable practice.

More specifically during the course of business, a funeral director does any of the following:  

(a) Negotiates or enters into funeral contracts

(b) Arranges, conducts or directs bereavement rites and ceremonies

(c) Arranges for the interment or cremation of human remains

(d) Transfers human remains or directs or supervises the transfer of human remains

(e) Cares for or prepares human remains prior to disposition, other than the disinfecting, preservation or restoration of human remains