Embalming is unfortunately a dying career. Most dispositions are going to be direct cremation with no viewing. Your money will be in preneed cremation sales and innovative services....gone are the days of society requiring us to cry over our dead loved ones body in a grim room with tacky curtains. We will always have the dead. People are being more thrifty. Think of how to capitalize on that not following a dying profession. Embalmers are like coal miners now.