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Thanatologist Training

Thanatologist Training
from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country

What will I learn?

This course equips you with essential skills for safe scene management, authority coordination, and rigorous PPE and infection protocols. You will master documenting postmortem changes, estimating time of death, and determining cause and manner. Build expertise in mortuary procedures, body preservation, viewing preparation, and delivering ethical, compassionate family communications in a legally compliant and efficient manner.

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Develop skills

  • Forensic scene safety: implement medical-grade PPE, conduct hazard assessments, and maintain chain of custody.
  • Postmortem examination fundamentals: record livor mortis, rigor mortis, algor mortis, injuries, and contextual evidence.
  • Time of death estimation: analyse mortis stages, decomposition levels, and environmental factors.
  • Mortuary handling techniques: decontaminate, preserve, and ready bodies for viewing securely.
  • Ethical thanatology practices: fulfil legal obligations while communicating transparently with bereaved families.

Suggested summary

Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload. Choose which chapter to start with. Add or remove chapters. Increase or decrease the course workload.
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

What our students say

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Very great course. Lots of rich information.
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