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What industry does funeral belong to?

Funeral service is a special service for funeral institutions to engage in funeral activities, and it is the general name of all items and contents that funeral institutions provide services for bereaved families by using funeral facilities, equipment and funeral supplies. Professional and technical personnel who provide this service. The business scope of funeral service personnel mainly includes business reception, ashes storage management, memorial service and funeral supplies sales. After the probation period expires, candidates may have to engage in first-line business such as picking up remains.

Funeral service belongs to the tertiary industry, that is, service industry, which has the same nature as catering, hotels, tourism, beauty salons, entertainment, film and television and other industries. The difference is that all service industries serve the "living", but the funeral industry serves the "dead". However, the direct service object of funeral service is the dead, and the indirect service object is still the living, such as bereavement, bereavement and bereavement, which constitutes a special service industry. The deepest social and cultural significance of funeral service lies in satisfying the psychological needs of "life dignity" and "eternal life" at the "last moment" of life, thus enhancing the dignity of human nature. Because the market vacancy is relatively large and the development space is large, it needs diversified supplementary development.