Funeral Directors give care to families and handle many administrative tasks associated with death. They arrange for transportation of the body, complete all necessary paperwork, and see that the family's decisions for funeral arrangements and final disposition of remains are followed.

Funeral Directors are here to listen, advise and support you. They have years of experience helping bereaved people cope with death. Funeral Directors are trained to answer questions about grief, recognized when a person is having difficulty coping, and recommend sources of professional help. Funeral directors also link survivors with support groups at the funeral home or in the community.

Embalming sanitizes and temporarily preserves the body, retards the decomposition process, and enhances the appearance of a body disfigured by traumatic death or illness.

Embalming makes it possible to lengthen the time between death and the final disposition, thus allowing family members time to arrange and participate in the type of service most comforting to them.Describe the item or answer the question so that site visitors who are interested get more information. You can emphasize this text with bullets, italics or bold, and add links.

No. Most states, however, require embalming when there is to be a viewing 24 hours after death, when the death was caused by a reportable contagious disease, or when remains are to be transported to another state, or if final disposition is not to be made within a prescribed number of hours.

Yes, your local funeral home should be able to assist you with out-of-state arrangements; either to transfer the remains from Pennsylvania to another state of from another state back here.

Most funeral homes operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can generally call a funeral home as soon after the death occurs as you are ready.

Most reputable funeral homes will typically arrive within an hour of your call. If the family wishes to spend a short time with the deceased to say good-by, that is fine as well and the funeral home can adjust their arrival to what is convenient for the family.