There legislature directed the Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers to provide for licenses for embalmers and for funeral directors. These entail different skills and different work assignments. There is no need for funeral directors to meet the class requirements that are necessary for an embalmer. As embalming decreases in popularity, there is a need to meet consumer concerns. A funeral director license needs to cover administrative and public relations duties. It should be completely separate from embalmers.

Those who object to embalming on religious grounds ought to be able to obtain a license for a funeral director.