This article examines transmission of knowledge related to the mortuary room attendant profession in France, through reflections based on interviews conducted with these professionals. Learning this profession requires transmission of knowledge between peers. By communicating with bereaved families, a certain notion of continuity of care is also transmitted. We are interested not only in content transmitted during interactions between novice professionals and their tutors, but also the ways in which the human dimension is taken into account by the different actors concerned and what it means for them.