Worst Jobs: 7 Professions That Seem Too Awful To Be Real

By John Kuroski | Edited By Savannah Cox

Published April 11, 2017

Updated November 9, 2023

Worst Jobs: Embalmer

NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty ImagesTwo workers embalm a body inside the morgue of Veronica Memorial Chapel in Manila.

Embalmers are responsible for the sanitation and preservation of corpses. To do so, embalmers must wash and disinfect the body, replace body fluids with gases and preservatives, as well as wash and arrange hair and makeup if necessary.

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John Kuroski is the editorial director of All That's Interesting. He graduated from New York University with a degree in history, earning a place in the Phi Alpha Theta honor society for history students. An editor at All That's Interesting since 2015, his areas of interest include modern history and true crime.

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Savannah Cox holds a Master's in International Affairs from The New School as well as a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and now serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Sheffield. Her work as a writer has also appeared on DNAinfo.

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Kuroski, John. "The 7 Worst Jobs In The Entire World." AllThatsInteresting.com, April 11, 2017, https://allthatsinteresting.com/worlds-worst-jobs. Accessed April 18, 2025.