CAREERS

Being a funeral director

What kind of person becomes a funeral director?

Funeral service requires dedicated people who are seeking a dynamic career with the opportunity to impact on others. Providing quality service to families during a time of loss requires special skills, qualities and training. Funeral directors are competent, caring, patient, sympathetic, attentive and adaptable. They care for the dead with dignity and reverence. Funeral directors must be able to counsel as well as console. They respond to the psychological, legal and social issues surrounding death. For more information, contact your local funeral director. In Ontario, two colleges: Boreal College in Sudbury, and Humber College in Toronto offer funeral service education programs.

Mike Brisson, Genier Gauthier Funeral Home Inc., Kapuskasing