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Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers
Perform various tasks to arrange and direct individual funeral services, such as coordinating transportation of body to mortuary, interviewing family or other authorized person to arrange details, selecting pallbearers, aiding with the selection of officials for religious rites, and providing transportation for mourners.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Oversee the preparation and care of the remains of people who have died.Mostly human for now
- 02Obtain information needed to complete legal documents, such as death certificates or burial permits.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Perform embalming duties, as necessary.Mostly human for now
- 04Consult with families or friends of the deceased to arrange funeral details, such as obituary notice wording, casket selection, or plans for services.Mostly human for now
- 05Remove deceased remains from place of death.Mostly human for now
- 06Contact cemeteries to schedule the opening and closing of graves.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Plan, schedule, or coordinate funerals, burials, or cremations, arranging details such as floral delivery or the time and place of services.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Close caskets and lead funeral corteges to churches or burial sites.Mostly human for now
- 09Provide information on funeral service options, products, or merchandise, and maintain a casket display area.Mostly human for now
- 10Offer counsel and comfort to bereaved families or friends.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
16%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 33% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 55% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Oversee the preparation and care of the remains of people who have died.
- Perform embalming duties, as necessary.
- Consult with families or friends of the deceased to arrange funeral details, such as obituary notice wording, casket selection, or plans for services.