Embalming the dead36

Frederic is 42 years old, he is an thanatopractor. Anglo-Saxons will say embalmer. Thanatopraxy is the art and science of preserving the bodies of the deceased from their natural decomposition, to be able to present them to families and at funerals with their appearance of life.
Every day, he takes care of these lifeless bodies so that the families, the "living ones", pass this stage of mourning in the most peaceful way possible.