About Schøntod Thanatopraxie

As a full service provider, Schøntod offers top-quality services for undertakers, authorities or other third parties in the following areas: thanatopraxis and hygienic care, hygiene and disinfection.

Customers can choose from various forms of service or purchase the entire service package. Schøntod is able to act as an advisor to the (local) authorities and is expressly open to all forms of regional, national and international cooperation.

We would like to point out that we are a service provider for undertakers and do not carry out any funeral services.

Our unique selling point, we are an independent company for the care of the deceased. Your thanatopractor service in Berlin / Brandenburg.

Why you should contact Schøntod

... because you can rely on tested quality:

Thanatopractic care for the dead is a highly specialized activity that goes far beyond hygienic care for the dead, which, in addition to theoretical knowledge and practical experience, also requires special rooms and instruments.

Schøntod's aim is to work hand in hand with funeral directors as partners.

Thanatopractic care includes all activities that are necessary for an aesthetic laying out. In addition to cleaning and disinfecting, this also includes conservation work and cosmetic treatment. The aim of thanatopractic care is to maintain the body in the short term.

Where you can take advantage of thanatopraxia

Open casket - even in difficult cases

In principle, thanatopractical care and open casket should always be considered. Treatment is particularly advisable if the deceased has changes in skin color (e.g. due to liver disease or hematomas), debilitating diseases such as cancer or chronic infections lead to death, and also in the case of elderly people who have a very thin "parchment skin", which very quickly dries out and changes accordingly visually. We can also help you with maggot infestation and try to enable an open casket.

The reconstructive, i.e. restorative, thanatopraxia forms a separate area. Especially in the case of accident victims after serious accidents and the effects of violence, as well as after long periods of lying in bed, relatives without prior thanatopractical care are neither recommended nor expected.

This also applies after forensic examinations and in cases when the post-mortem decomposition is already at an advanced stage. The parts that are psychologically important for the bereaved - face and hands - can be restored in such a way that even the most severe damage is reduced to a very low optical level: In practice, this is often done using a photograph that shows the deceased and serves as a template for the thanatopractor.

It goes without saying that the aim cannot be to make the exterior appear better than it was during your lifetime. Drastic consequences are only mitigated to the extent that a pious farewell is made possible for the relatives.

Transfers and deadline extensions without problems

Embalming is legally mandatory when transferring to countries such as the USA, Greece or Egypt. In North America, embalming is standard, and when transporting people to southern European and Southeast Asian countries, thanatopractical treatment is urgently recommended for the bereaved, if only because of the climatic conditions.

If the burial period is extended beyond the prescribed period of time, it also makes sense to offer the relatives a thanatopractical treatment. Today, after all, it is no longer a matter of course that the bereaved and friends of the deceased live close by or can arrive quickly enough.

How to use the advantages of thanatopraxia for your own business

In relation to your own customers, you benefit from being able to offer a significantly broader range of services. Incidentally, of course, you also underline your willingness to provide service within your core business.

For you as the undertaker, there are further options for providing services through additional transfer trips to Schøntod and the place of restraint, as well as when completing formalities with the regulatory authorities, if the burial period is extended or if the approval for an international transfer has to be obtained.

As a specialist, you know how important it is for relatives to cope with grief. Thanatopractic treatment of the deceased gives you the opportunity to offer your customers an open, yet aesthetic, laying out. Here you have the opportunity to expand your advisory activities, especially with regard to professional bereavement support.

Open up a wide space for yourself to provide additional services related to the laying out: Remember that the open laying out and the barrier-free farewell in direct contact make far higher demands than the equipment of the coffin and the decoration of the place of laying out.

Schøntod

From the storage area to the hygiene and supply rooms, the equipment corresponds to the latest clinical standard. The treatment is carried out using the most modern methods and the highest demands on first-class care.

You should not feel satisfied by less.