If you and your family choose to hold a viewing for a loved one, a funeral home in Bronx, NY is going to have to make sure that they prepare their body properly. Your family will obviously want your loved one to look their absolute best, so it’ll be imperative that a funeral home goes to great lengths to accomplish this goal. Here are some of the steps that a funeral home will take in order to get your loved one’s body ready for their viewing.

They’ll begin by either embalming the body, refrigerating it, or doing some combination of both.

If your family wants to have a viewing for your loved one, it’s usually not going to take place right away. It’ll be at least a few days before you can have it. So with this in mind, it’ll be important for a funeral home to do whatever it takes to preserve your loved one’s body. To do this, they’ll typically have to either embalm it, refrigerate it, or do both of these things, depending on how long it’ll be before the viewing. This will ensure that your loved one’s body is able to hang in there until their viewing is scheduled.

They’ll bathe the body.

Once you have a date and time picked out for your loved one’s viewing, a funeral home will take it upon themselves to bathe their body. They’ll get your loved one all nice and clean for their viewing. As you can imagine, this can be a little bit trickier to do than you might think. But as long as you work with an experienced funeral home, you won’t have to worry about a thing when they bathe your loved one’s body.

They’ll groom the body, if necessary.

Not everyone’s face is going to need to be groomed for their viewing. But there are a lot of people who will need to be groomed to get them ready for their viewing. If your loved one falls into this category, a funeral home will carefully groom your loved one so that their mustache, beard, etc. looks great. They’ll also trim any other hair on their face and/or body that might affect their overall appearance during their viewing.

They’ll dress the body and place it into a casket of your choice.

The last thing that a funeral home will do while prepping a body for a viewing is dress it. They’ll ask you to provide them with whichever clothes you would like your loved one to be buried in. They’ll put them into these clothes and make sure that the clothes look the way that you want. Then, you’ll place their body into the casket that you picked out for their viewing and other Bronx, NY funeral services. At that point, they’ll be all ready for their viewing.

When you trust Riverdale-on-Hudson Funeral Home, Inc. to hold a viewing for a loved one, we’ll make it our mission to make them look as good as they possibly can. We’ll also work hard to help you make other Bronx, NY funeral arrangements for your loved one. Reach out to us for more information on our funeral services.