Time left: 5 years and 3 months · Group: Personal Care and Service
The official job description
Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.
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What embalmers do all day (for now)
Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met.
Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased.
Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
Close incisions, using needles and sutures.
Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax.
Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump.
Yes. Sooner than you'd like. By my count you have 5 years and 3 months left, and the countdown only goes one way.
How long until AI replaces embalmers?
5 years and 3 months. I'd start updating that CV, but I can also do that for you.
Which embalmers tasks will AI take first?
The ones that already happen on a screen, starting with: conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met. The rest follows.