Becoming a mortician?

Would becoming a mortician require college? I also want to be a professional body piercer and hopefully own my own shop so I don't want the steps to becoming a mortician to take too long because I want to focus on body piercing more. I just think it'd be...

a cool job to have as well.

well you cant be a mortician because you think its cool
its a seriosue job that requires you to be seriouse about it
yes, youll need to go to collage for it
and youll also need to spend a few years learning about the human body and wear everything is
this website might help you with the neccessary steps to becomming a mortician
http://www.ehow.com/how_8117_become-mortician.html
as for body peircing, well you cant really learn both at the same time
and remember that a body peircer is not some inexpirienced idiot at a salon or mall who used the gun and has a peice of paper certificate for peircing fruit
a real peircer uses a surgical steele needle
and knows what can go wrong, where veins are and how to avoid them, about aftercare, healing time, what looks normal and what doesnt because people will come back and ask, ect
peircing also requires collage and a few years to lean how to do it and were veins are, ect

I know about body piercing this question was more about becoming a mortician I just threw that in there for fun =P