Emballem

Embalm (them, him). Embalming, in most modern cultures, is the art and science used to temporarily preserve human remains to forestall decomposition and make it suitable for display at a funeral. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embalm

In ancient Egypt the dead were embalmed and preserved as mummies. They believed that preservation of the mummy empowered the soul after death, which would return to the corpse.