Enbalming??

kan

I'm not too sure if this belongs in this forum but I dunno where else to ask!
Well I'm in my 3rd year at college, have one year left after and am out straight onto a career but I have realised that I don't actually want to work in this but I have realised that I would love to be an enbalmer, it just seems to be the job for me, I wouldn't have a clue about how to get into training to work at something like this, has anybody any info???
Thanks! :pac:

Dr Galen

i'd imagine checking with a funeral home wold be a good bet? Don't they d a lot of that sort of thing? You could also try emailing whoever runs the City Morgue or the morgue in any hospital and they might be able to point you in the right direction

Just out of curiosity though, what makes you think it's the job for you?

NeverSayDie

I imagine these folks will be able to point you in the right direction;
http://www.iafd.ie/

sillymoo

NeverSayDie wrote: »

I imagine these folks will be able to point you in the right direction;
http://www.iafd.ie/

Goodness I just love your username and this post

Larianne

At one stage in my life I considered doing this. :eek: But I kinda knew I wouldn't be able for it.

Tis a lonely enough career. I spoke to a lady who used to do flower arrangements for funeral homes and she said the guys (always guys) usually ended up with a drink problem. You have to deal with people suffering from grief, you work on your own and I'm guessing some of the bodies come in in an awful state. You need to be physical fit as you'll have to do a lot of lifting.

I did see an advertisement for trainee embalmer for one of the big undertakers in Dublin a few years ago. Contacting the funeral homes themselves may tell you how to go about it. I guess there wouldn't be too many openings that come up.

NeverSayDie

sillymoo wrote: »

Goodness I just love your username and this post

Just an unfortunate coincidence, I can assure you

I'd tend to agree with Larianne OP, this sounds like a potentially difficult career in terms of its affect on your health (bearing in mind I'm neither a funeral director nor a psychiatrist). That said, it's a field I'd have a good deal of respect for, as with medics, Gardaí and other folks who regularly deal with the more difficult aspects of life. Definitely take that into account before committing yourself to that path - I imagine some folks may be better equipped to handle it than others. I don't know how embalming breaks down in terms of specialised roles within the business, but it's quite possible you would have to, at some point at least, engage with the bereaved as funeral directors do. Regular exposure to that sort of situation could be challenging, I imagine.

kan

Hey thanks for all the replies!
Yeah I understand it is a hard enough career path and I realise it will be lonely etc but I really think it is for me, and to Larianne about the whole drinking problem luckily I'm not a guy so hopefully it won't affect me lol! (plus Larianne, how did you figure out it wouldn't be the career for you??)
Neversaydie, thanks for that link I have read the site it says something about needing a sposor from somebody who is already a member to be able to do the training with these guys so I think I will email or ring around some members and see what can be done, unfortunatly I can't start looking into it yet as I have to finish my degree, which is a good thing because if the enbalming is not for me I have somehting to come back to......
I really wish I was finished now so I could start enbalming training, hopfully it works out!

Odysseus

kan wrote: »

I'm not too sure if this belongs in this forum but I dunno where else to ask!
Well I'm in my 3rd year at college, have one year left after and am out straight onto a career but I have realised that I don't actually want to work in this but I have realised that I would love to be an enbalmer, it just seems to be the job for me, I wouldn't have a clue about how to get into training to work at something like this, has anybody any info???
Thanks! :pac:

Can't tell you that much, but a former client of mine wanted a similar career. He had some extended family in that, from what I remember he had to travel to the UK to study and train, that there was no facility in Ireland offered it at the time. Can't remember what the training was called. Sorry probably not of much use to you.

Odysseus

Actually this link might be of some help

http://www.careerdirections.ie/CDW3C/AccessDBAllCareerDetails.jsp?id=92

allsaintssue

Hi:)
My sister was going to train to be an embalmer and she used to have a part time job after school in a funeral home (she did the make up!)
You can do a course in Sallynoggen and in Tipperary, and they run every two years and are a year long. It is only one saturday a month for the year as far as I can remember. There is an entrance exam to get into the course..This is all the info I can remember off the top of my head:)