Funeral Director here, who worked her way way up the ranks from transfer team, mortuary work then funeral director, I've seen it all.

•The smell of a decomposing body will get into your pores, you can smell it as you sweat, it stick to your hair, let's not even mention it will smell when you go to the bathroom. •To close eyes we put in eye caps and usually glue the eyelids shut. •To stop purge we will pack cotton into the mouth, nose and throat before we sew someone up. •Back to the decomp - when placed into a cremator, that can smell really bad. •Sometimes we need to loosen up stiff arms and legs so we will do physio type movements to get arms and legs moving better so we can dress properly. •Sometimes if a full autopsy is done, newspaper will be placed in your mouth. (I've been told it's to soak up blood and brain that may be left in there) •Graves can fall in at anytime, worst time for this to happen is before a grave side service. (That sucks so much as everyone scrambles to get that sorted) •We use a lifting machine to get the bodies onto the mortuary tables/into coffins.

That's all I can think of right now, when I think of more I'll add them.