What is the difference between a funeral director coroner and a mortician?

Answer 1

Funeral Director typically directs the operations of the funeral. Makes sure the funeral is running smoothly as it can and takes care of any problems that might arise. They are sorta the leader in charge before, during, and after a funeral. Typically they are viewed as THE person that repersents the funeral home. During the funeral.

Mortician is Behind the Scenes person typically you will never see a mortician at a funeral itself or if they are they typically do not make themselfs very well known. Their job bascially is to beautify the deceased. This includes dressing the deceased and putting on makeup. Makeup is applied to both a male deceased or female deceased. This is to help improve skin color on the deceased. Typically clothing is picked out by the family and the mortician then dress's the deceasesd with it. Some family's require hair to be curled for female deceased and for male deceased there hair neatly comb. Perfumes may or may not be added on the deceased. It has always been my view that morticians try to make the deceased look like there sleeping then actually looking dead. This provides the family with some deal of comfort during a trying time.

In small funeral homes often the funeral directors acts as a mortician as well.
A funeral director is a person who arranges for funerals to take place, and a coroner is a person who examines dead bodies in order to determine the cause of death. There is relatively little similarity between the two, although they both deal with corpses.

Answer 2

There is no real difference between the two. The names change depending on regional differences.