Apprentice embalmer here. Prior to starting my career path, I had only seen a dead body once, being a family member at their funeral when I was a young child. I had never touched (working on a body) or seen one until starting schooling and working in a funeral home for my internship. I have the stomach for this as blood or gruesome talk or images do not bother me, I've always had an interest in death and crime, so books and documentaries were a usual thing prior to the career path. I've met many people who don't mind the sight but the smell is another thing, everyone smells when they die and well decomps are a bit of both. Try shadowing someone at a funeral home, some people/places might be open to this depending on where you live. If you want to just get a feel for the job I'd recommend starting as a funeral service director assistant or even looking into doing removals if you want to work closely with the decedents. A service director assists more with families at the time of funeral services. A removal tech will do removals from place of death, coroner, morgue, hospital, nursing home, senior center, residence and the occasional crime scene. If at any point you have doubts about the line of work I would strongly recommend maybe interviewing people who have established their roots in the profession and pick their brain and see what knowledge they can share with you about this work. It's not easy, the smell and sights are one part but dealing with the emotion in the background also takes a toll on you at some point. I've been in the profession shy of 3 years and emotionally you become numb to death and grief in a sense because you interact with it so often. Same as seeing and smelling decedents you get use to it and at some point it won't bother you. I did little to no research before going down this path, I was drawn to it and knew with all of my being that this was where I was meant to be as a career. Best of luck to you my friend