These days, there’s a controversy about seeing a dead body.

(1)In France in the late 19th century, there was a culture of looking at corpses in the morgue.
(2)Originally, it was made so that the bereaved family could find the unidentified body.
(3)When a pretty person dies, the meaning of the event changes as it frequently occurs.
(4)And the morticians who thought it was worth the money used to decorate the body more beautifully and make one side of the wall glass for viewing.
(5)They even sold snacks at the morgue.
(6)After World War I, it became increasingly unpopular, and it wasn’t until the 1940s that this culture disappeared.