Now You Know: The job of a funeral director and embalmer

"We're becoming a society where we almost think this is an option and unfortunately it's not," said Ranve Martinson, Funeral Director of Martinson Funeral Home. Martinson is a fourth generation licensed funeral director and embalmer. "It's very vitally important for them to say goodbye, pay their last respects to their loved one," Martinson said. "We temporarily halt and suspend and preserve the body where it's safe, secure and sanitary for them to do so." Martinson said people often misperceive what funeral director jobs are really like because of what they see on television.