Having read about how a body is embalmed, I now feel as though it would be slightly awkward to have someone touching my family member's dead body that much.  Something about it makes me uneasy, to an extent.  The fact that they are treated more or less like a doll on an assembly line, or perhaps like a shirt being fastened to a mannequine is a little bit unsettling.  I do suppose that it is a lot better than having them be a rotting, mangled corpse covered in carnations to block out the smell, but it is still a little bit strange to think that they are treated like that.  In all honesty it is not that much of a shock to me, mostly because I spent a few years of my life wanting to be a mortitian.  Thankfully I grew out of that phase and I won't have to be embalming anything.