Get to know encoffiners: Preparing the dead for final journey

Updated: 2016-03-30 11:45

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Two encoffiners bow deeply as a volunteer pretends to be dead at a funeral home in Jiaxing city, East China's Zhejiang province, July 3, 2012. [Photo/IC]

Whether you have watched Departures, a popular Japanese film that won an Academy Award in 2009, or not, these photos will help you take a closer look at encoffiners or people whose job is to prepare the body and place it in coffin.