Deputy shows respect for dead

SHANGHAI: Some might consider her work morbid, but Jin Peiji, a makeup artist for the dead, approaches her charges in the same way she would any living person.

"They were all people once, and I respect them, just as I would if they were still alive," the 24-year-old Shanghai resident.

Jin, who works at a funeral parlor in the city's Minhang district, is also the youngest first-time deputy to the Shanghai people's congress, which opens tomorrow.