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A place where the dead are kept and cared for before burial or cremation.

means A place where dead bodies are kept and prepared before burial or cremation.

from From Latin mortuarius, 'belonging to the dead,' rooted in mors/mortis, 'death.' The word passed into English through Anglo-French, first describing a customary gift or payment owed to a parish priest from a dead person's estate — only later settling into its current, grimmer job of naming the room itself.

etymology
from latin mors, death, same root as mortgage
mortgage link
mortgage literally means death pledge
temperature
kept near 36F to slow decomposition
not a morgue
morgues identify bodies, mortuaries prepare them
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