Funeral director

A funeral director is an individual who manages funerary preparations for the recently deceased. These duties include preparing the bodies for burial, arranging for cremation, managing funeral receptions and viewing, coordinating with gravestone, blanket and funeral urn providers and providing comfort to grieving loved ones during services.

On the U.S. version of the supernatural monster-mash series Being Human, there was a character named Max, who was the funeral director of the Howell & Holt Funeral Home in Boston, Massachusetts. Despite his youth, Max took his chosen vocation very seriously, administering the greatest of care to the deceased and offering counseling to grief-stricken loved ones.