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Smith says a funeral director plays an important role in the grieving process by assisting mourners with pivotal choices about how to remember their loved ones. Searching for a college?

The restoration process is done subtly to ensure the departed look as natural as possible. But some have changed due to illness, injury, or decomposition. In those cases, morticians can perform ...

This is followed by the actual embalming process, which slows down the body’s decomposition. This is done by injecting a chemical fluid into the common carotid artery near the neck. At the same ...

These are the words of Fred Olela, the mortician in charge of the Homa Bay County Referral Hospital mortuary. There is a perception that morticians are people who are haunted by evil spirits.