1.To treat (a dead body) with preservatives 2.To preserve or cherish the memory of.

Sheila makes sure her ‘patient’ is strategically covered while she works; so she can “keep her dignity” she says. She then proceeds to place the stethoscope, hanging around her neck, carefully into her ears and onto the chest of the body lying in front of us…… She listens intently, trying genuinely to listen out for a heart beat.… “Murder carries a heavy sentence in this country and if these people weren’t dead before they came in they certainly would be when they left.”