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Funeral Director / Mortician
Manages funeral services, prepares remains, and supports bereaved families through difficult times.
Did you know?
In Ghana, carpenters build fantasy coffins shaped like chickens, crabs, lions or even airliners, often showing the person's job or family totem.
How subjects help
- Biology: Understand how a body changes after death and prepare it with care for a viewing.
- Psychology: Support grieving families gently and accept that everyone mourns in their own way.
- Business Studies: Run the funeral home, from prices and paperwork to booking venues and cars.
- Communication: Guide a family through choices about the service with patience and kindness.
A famous name
Caitlin Doughty: Licensed mortician who runs a Los Angeles funeral home and the "Ask a Mortician" video series.
Try it yourself: Map the helpers near you
- Draw a simple map of your neighbourhood from memory.
- Mark every place that helps people: a clinic, library, park, food bank, bus stop, place of worship.
- Ask a family member what they would add, and who in your area might find it hard to get help.
- What is missing? Write one idea that would help.
Social workers and community planners start by finding what a community already has and who is being left out.
Also try: Organise one drawer.
Known for it in
USA, UK, Japan, Australia, Ghana