Working with death seems to be a horrible thing for most people, while this is a serious work for Yue Xia, a female forensic in south China’s Guangdong Province. /VCG Photo

Mainly being responsible for forensic pathology and forensic clinical identification, which is commonly called identifying the cause of death, Yue Xia has dissected more than one thousand corpses, including infants and highly decomposed bodies. /VCG Photo

Dissecting corpses is a dirty, tiring and stinky work. According to Yue Xia, the smell not only comes from rotten bodies but also from half-digested stomach contents. However, forensics have to take the initiative to smell for finding clues. /VCG Photo

“Some people may think us abnormal, while we are not,” says Yue Xia. “I have to say I don’t like dissecting corpses, but this is my work, so I have to treat it seriously.” /VCG Photo